Hello! I’m an artist and I just moved to Japan less than a month ago. I have an inquiry about selling nsfw (R-18) drawings while living here. I do art commissions and sometimes my clients ask me to draw their female characters naked.
Can I get in trouble for drawing/selling that kind of stuff during my stay here? I don’t draw explicit content, just naked bodies lol. But I think there is some censor law? Any advice will be appreciated!
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It’s Japan… You’ll be fine. Promoting through Instagram is a good idea and showing your stuff at galleries in bars or wherever will get you more exposure.
There’s a lot of online platforms here that people can use to request/sell inexplicit/explicit drawings like Skeb, Fantia etc. so probably no, you won’t get in trouble. One thing I notice is genitalia is almost always censored, though.
Just don’t sell it through platforms based in Japan.
My Google -fu says to tread carefully if anything displayed could be taken as obscene
It’s a bit of a paradox, on the one hand fairly graphic anime is fine, but if you remember the uproar and arrest about a canoe designed to look like a vagina, then you know the fine balance you need to tread. Basically, everything except genitals is fine.
[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/artist-who-made-canoe-modelled-on-her-vagina-arrested-on-obscenity-charges-9902488.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/artist-who-made-canoe-modelled-on-her-vagina-arrested-on-obscenity-charges-9902488.html)
I haven’t got a clue.
However, you should probably post a price list in your description. Always be closing, and all that.
Technically its illegal but there is literally nobody out there tracking your sales and logging IP adresses to provide evidence for your eventual arrest
As long as you avoid Japan based platforms which usually ban such things, you can get away with it. Even if someone reports you to the Japanese police theyre not going to take an action, they realistically have no evidence
So there’s this place called Akihabara you may want to check out…