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Ichihara Asako · 2011-03-11, 22:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vexx

Sounds to me like it sat on someone's Inbox who was either disorganized slacker or off on vacation. Really.. imagine a large organization in the vein of the comic strip Dilbert - its a wonder anything ever happens right at all. Or they just thought it was so amazingly cute they couldn't bear to send it on 'for a while'.

Yeah, I wonder why it was held, all sorts of thoughts like that went through my mind. I just ordered another one (was only 1100y and arrived in three days) so now I have two, so double the Chen is fine by me.

HurricaneHige · 2011-03-12, 01:17

Declare them as comics and magazines, manga is a big no-no because clueless mainstream ppl get all their foreign knowledge from crap like FOX.

I had a suitcase full of manga that I declared as comics and I went through fine. You just have to understand how to avoid 'keywords' or 'key phrases', it's how nearly every Canadian gov't agency works: Everything is fine and dandy normally, the second someone does something out of the ordinary or trigger a keyword and all hell breaks loose.

EDIT: Oh yea..I still can't wrap my mind around the whole 'hentai is bad' thing, seriously they are drawings, no one was exploited in anyway, why is it even questionable?

Ichihara Asako · 2011-03-12, 02:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by HurricaneHige

EDIT: Oh yea..I still can't wrap my mind around the whole 'hentai is bad' thing, seriously they are drawings, no one was exploited in anyway, why is it even questionable?

Because the "think of the children" crowd say so. It's a thought crime to like pictures, especially if they're of things "society" deems bad or inappropriate.

I mean, clearly by owning http://asako.quietlyspoken.net/shashin/dakia.jpg I'm a twisted rapist in the making. Just a matter of time!

Never mind the fact I'm a grown woman, with no children or any "impressionable" people ever visiting my house to burn their eyes out on this devilry. It's bad just because they say so.

(btw both of the above links may be considered NSFW, so tread cautiously lest the thought police get you).

Malkuth · 2011-03-12, 13:32

Don't really know, I had customs checking me once in Germany, and then in Croatia, while carrying Narutaru (german version) some years ago... NP there.

But recently, when I began reading Futari Ecchi, I noticed that some people were looking at me strangely.

~~Otaku Guy~~ · 2011-03-14, 12:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ichihara Asako

Because the "think of the children" crowd say so. It's a thought crime to like pictures, especially if they're of things "society" deems bad or inappropriate.

I mean, clearly by owning http://asako.quietlyspoken.net/shashin/dakia.jpg I'm a twisted rapist in the making. Just a matter of time!

Never mind the fact I'm a grown woman, with no children or any "impressionable" people ever visiting my house to burn their eyes out on this devilry. It's bad just because they say so.

(btw both of the above links may be considered NSFW, so tread cautiously lest the thought police get you).

Society is so corrupted and close minded that its not even worth negotiating with anymore. Somebody needs to fix this broken world.
Don't just watch, fight back.

Kohagura · 2017-08-09, 13:52

(Sorry if necroposting is against the rules, but I didn't find any rule against it in the Rules page...)

I recently was kept in the Canadian customs secondary inspection on my way to Montreal, Canada, from Dallas, TX, USA.

For 2 hours!

I don't really know if it's because of my anime pins on my bag (featuring 20-something year old looking anime men from Hakuouki), or because I have anxiety+depression which makes me really shy/nervous plus it was my first time in Canada, my first time traveling internationally alone. OR because I don't speak French so I looked confused whenever they tried to talk to me in French. Or maybe because I'm not white and I was born in Japan (I'm half Chinese half Japanese, maybe they suspect we're pedos if we're born in/from Japan?). Or maybe because my clothes were kind of Lolita-ish. Like I had a frilly black blouse and lacey shorts... maybe I stood out? I mean I guess staying there for 29-30 days could be it, too.

I feel like it's mostly to do with anime because... they were fervently searching through my phone and laptop pictures like there was no tomorrow (they actually open your image files, to look closely at each and every one), and only casually went through my actual luggage.

I felt really violated because there was no warning this would happen, otherwise I wouldn't have brought my laptop or deleted everything on it beforehand... 2 hours of standing and watching them go through everything which was meant to be private. I actually had to ask for a chair halfway in, and was almost falling asleep despite how nervous I was. While everyone else in the room would come and go quickly, I was kept for so long I seriously thought I was going to go to jail for some anime fanart.

They were totally trying to accuse me of child porn or something, even though I passionately hate lolicon/shotacon. However, because of Google's "convenient" auto-saving of received photos, they happened to see a nude fanart of the main girl from NGNL (an anime I personally hate BECAUSE of the lolicon appeal), because one of my friends who is a lolicon sent it to me without me even wanting it. I didn't even know that Google had that saved, because he sent it to me probably on Facebook messenger (?), but if I did know, I would have deleted it ASAP.

But it wasn't only lolicon... they were trying to see if I was a shotacon as well because I had some screenshots from a mobile visual novel game called Cerulean Heart (probably PG or PG-13 rated), which had the main character as a highschool boy. Not even sexual at all! The most "mature" thing in that game is the guy mentioning he's gay, or a kiss scene. They're fully-clothed and don't do anything sexual. Your typical mobile BL VN.

I do admit some of my Yaoi folders could have younger-looking guys who even if they're 19, look like teens (like Shuichi from Gravitation is supposed to be 19 but looks very young in some of the doujinshi because he's an "uke"). Or in some cases, the picture's fan artist just draws their characters in a more simple style that is like hybrid chibi (think Elsword style, like even Ain in Elsword could be mistaken as a preteen even though he's obviously adult by his voice), so they look young when they're supposed to be adult. I deleted it after their search, just to be safe on the way back to USA.

Another image that seemed to make them freak out, was a screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV, where there is a tall man and two male Lalafells laying on the floor, with the guy's fists going through the Lalafells' butts (they were wearing underwear briefs)... which is incredibly stupid and obviously was purely for humor/stupidity. This was also Google auto-saving it, and not a photo I saved myself. I would have facepalmed SO HARD if I were sent to jail for this.

I was actually lucky that I had TOO many pictures for them to actually go through, so after those 2 hours, they just let me go without searching my Yaoi folder (not without asking me if I had drugs, even though I already was stopped and searched by the USA's TSA just before flying). So they actually only went through about half of my "Anime" folder which is where I don't keep my specifically explicit Yaoi pictures... Though some folders did have some 18+ content, like the "Free!" folder for example, which luckily the characters I had fanart of, don't look underaged (for anime) and had muscular bodies.

But I seriously thought I was going to jail. I was actually fully prepared to visualize how it'd be to go to a women's jail, how I'd be likely bullied and manipulated, violated further, and sleeping in a dirty cot. Having my life ruined forever by a criminal record, even though I've never done anything so bad. I never did drugs, smoked, or even drank alcohol. Always obeyed adults as a kid. Never got violent (except on brother as kids). I really could feel all of that going down the drain during their search, and even worried if that would affect my fiance who I was coming to see (he had to wait for those 2+ hours because he arrived at the airport to pick me up before the customs).

It was with this, that I think I could really understand how prison ruins all chances of a person returning to a normal life.

I'm just hoping that on my way returning back to USA, they won't do another search on me... I think I'll remove the anime pins from my laptop bag just to be safe.

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2011-03-12, 01:17	Link #62
HurricaneHige Uguu~ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Canada	Declare them as comics and magazines, manga is a big no-no because clueless mainstream ppl get all their foreign knowledge from crap like FOX. I had a suitcase full of manga that I declared as comics and I went through fine. You just have to understand how to avoid 'keywords' or 'key phrases', it's how nearly every Canadian gov't agency works: Everything is fine and dandy normally, the second someone does something out of the ordinary or trigger a keyword and all hell breaks loose. EDIT: Oh yea..I still can't wrap my mind around the whole 'hentai is bad' thing, seriously they are drawings, no one was exploited in anyway, why is it even questionable? __________________ Sig's coming soon ~_~ (since 07....) My rant blog (omg i'm blogging now, and not just anime)

2017-08-09, 13:52	Link #66
Kohagura Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2017	(Sorry if necroposting is against the rules, but I didn't find any rule against it in the Rules page...) I recently was kept in the Canadian customs secondary inspection on my way to Montreal, Canada, from Dallas, TX, USA. For 2 hours! I don't really know if it's because of my anime pins on my bag (featuring 20-something year old looking anime men from Hakuouki), or because I have anxiety+depression which makes me really shy/nervous plus it was my first time in Canada, my first time traveling internationally alone. OR because I don't speak French so I looked confused whenever they tried to talk to me in French. Or maybe because I'm not white and I was born in Japan (I'm half Chinese half Japanese, maybe they suspect we're pedos if we're born in/from Japan?). Or maybe because my clothes were kind of Lolita-ish. Like I had a frilly black blouse and lacey shorts... maybe I stood out? I mean I guess staying there for 29-30 days could be it, too. I feel like it's mostly to do with anime because... they were fervently searching through my phone and laptop pictures like there was no tomorrow (they actually open your image files, to look closely at each and every one), and only casually went through my actual luggage. I felt really violated because there was no warning this would happen, otherwise I wouldn't have brought my laptop or deleted everything on it beforehand... 2 hours of standing and watching them go through everything which was meant to be private. I actually had to ask for a chair halfway in, and was almost falling asleep despite how nervous I was. While everyone else in the room would come and go quickly, I was kept for so long I seriously thought I was going to go to jail for some anime fanart. They were totally trying to accuse me of child porn or something, even though I passionately hate lolicon/shotacon. However, because of Google's "convenient" auto-saving of received photos, they happened to see a nude fanart of the main girl from NGNL (an anime I personally hate BECAUSE of the lolicon appeal), because one of my friends who is a lolicon sent it to me without me even wanting it. I didn't even know that Google had that saved, because he sent it to me probably on Facebook messenger (?), but if I did know, I would have deleted it ASAP. But it wasn't only lolicon... they were trying to see if I was a shotacon as well because I had some screenshots from a mobile visual novel game called Cerulean Heart (probably PG or PG-13 rated), which had the main character as a highschool boy. Not even sexual at all! The most "mature" thing in that game is the guy mentioning he's gay, or a kiss scene. They're fully-clothed and don't do anything sexual. Your typical mobile BL VN. I do admit some of my Yaoi folders could have younger-looking guys who even if they're 19, look like teens (like Shuichi from Gravitation is supposed to be 19 but looks very young in some of the doujinshi because he's an "uke"). Or in some cases, the picture's fan artist just draws their characters in a more simple style that is like hybrid chibi (think Elsword style, like even Ain in Elsword could be mistaken as a preteen even though he's obviously adult by his voice), so they look young when they're supposed to be adult. I deleted it after their search, just to be safe on the way back to USA. Another image that seemed to make them freak out, was a screenshot from Final Fantasy XIV, where there is a tall man and two male Lalafells laying on the floor, with the guy's fists going through the Lalafells' butts (they were wearing underwear briefs)... which is incredibly stupid and obviously was purely for humor/stupidity. This was also Google auto-saving it, and not a photo I saved myself. I would have facepalmed SO HARD if I were sent to jail for this. I was actually lucky that I had TOO many pictures for them to actually go through, so after those 2 hours, they just let me go without searching my Yaoi folder (not without asking me if I had drugs, even though I already was stopped and searched by the USA's TSA just before flying). So they actually only went through about half of my "Anime" folder which is where I don't keep my specifically explicit Yaoi pictures... Though some folders did have some 18+ content, like the "Free!" folder for example, which luckily the characters I had fanart of, don't look underaged (for anime) and had muscular bodies. But I seriously thought I was going to jail. I was actually fully prepared to visualize how it'd be to go to a women's jail, how I'd be likely bullied and manipulated, violated further, and sleeping in a dirty cot. Having my life ruined forever by a criminal record, even though I've never done anything so bad. I never did drugs, smoked, or even drank alcohol. Always obeyed adults as a kid. Never got violent (except on brother as kids). I really could feel all of that going down the drain during their search, and even worried if that would affect my fiance who I was coming to see (he had to wait for those 2+ hours because he arrived at the airport to pick me up before the customs). It was with this, that I think I could really understand how prison ruins all chances of a person returning to a normal life. I'm just hoping that on my way returning back to USA, they won't do another search on me... I think I'll remove the anime pins from my laptop bag just to be safe. Last edited by Kohagura; 2017-08-09 at 14:18.

2011-03-12, 13:32	Link #64
Malkuth Banned Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: London Age: 43	Don't really know, I had customs checking me once in Germany, and then in Croatia, while carrying Narutaru (german version) some years ago... NP there. But recently, when I began reading Futari Ecchi, I noticed that some people were looking at me strangely.