Manga

Same old story, just western chauvinism and puritanism. There's a reason piracy is the default for otaku, fansubbers are super stars, and it's bad news when a publisher pays attention to the world outside Japan.

My money is in this specifically being an attack on the queer community, btw. Anime is pretty queer coded (see yaoi, yuri, otokonoko, etc) and the queer community thrives in online spaces (especially in more regressive states like Texas), soooo make anime illegal under the classic bullshit of 'think of the children' (nonsense, btw, anyone who hides behind that is doing something horrific themselves). Bam, you hurt a bunch of innocent people and undermine art (also a classic fascist goal) for years to come.

Right.... But child marriage? Still totally cool in Texas. Gotta protect the fictional children but not the real children.

Get ready for 25 to 50% of all Texas teenagers to become sex offenders

The legislation explicitly states that this applies “regardless of whether the depiction is an image of an actual child, a cartoon or animation, or an image created using an artificial intelligence application or other computer software.”

Can this be argued without the preclusion of context of being "of a child"? Did these smegma crusts just ban all forms of media since the very beginning of use of computer assistance?

RIP Funimation. They’re probably gonna have to move their HQ

so its not even about sexualizing children, but even just containing children at all is forbidden now?

Ireland has had laws like this for years. Hasn’t killed the anime/manga market there.