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January 21, 2007 11:22 AM Subscribe
Wal-Mart sells hentai now? (link SFW) Strange activity for a retailer well known to ban men's magazines (of both the pornographic variety and almost-but-not-quite pornographic variety), music with explicit lyrics, or pretty much any book they don't like. One can only assume that they were trying to get into the market for these newfangled Japanese comics that are suddenly all the rage, and didn't pay attention to precisely which ones they were ordering.
Well, as Wal-Mart said when they continued selling the Jon Stewart book online: ""There's a different audience in the stores and online."
That said, I think you are right and they just didn't know what they were ordering.
posted by arcticwoman at 11:28 AM on January 21, 2007
That said, I think you are right and they just didn't know what they were ordering.
posted by arcticwoman at 11:28 AM on January 21, 2007
What is wrong with this? I think the average wal-mart shopper is ready for some good old fashioned tentacle rape comics.
posted by Iron Rat at 11:28 AM on January 21, 2007
posted by Iron Rat at 11:28 AM on January 21, 2007
Actually, Iron Rat, from hanging around certain places I'd best not link, I believe this particular h-manga contains futanari, or "dickgirls".
I don't think there's any tentacle rape at all. Sorry to disappoint. ;)
posted by Target Practice at 11:32 AM on January 21, 2007
I don't think there's any tentacle rape at all. Sorry to disappoint. ;)
posted by Target Practice at 11:32 AM on January 21, 2007
Actually, Iron Rat, from hanging around certain places I'd best not link, I believe this particular h-manga contains futanari, or "dickgirls".
Yes! Broad n' beefy futanari in blue "How Can I Help You?" dacron vests. The ultimate americanization of cosplay.
posted by hal9k at 11:38 AM on January 21, 2007
Yes! Broad n' beefy futanari in blue "How Can I Help You?" dacron vests. The ultimate americanization of cosplay.
posted by hal9k at 11:38 AM on January 21, 2007
Is there a term for dickgirls who have long, tentaclesque prehensile penises? Because I'm pretty sure I saw something along those lines once, probably on Somethingawful.
posted by [expletive deleted] at 11:41 AM on January 21, 2007
posted by [expletive deleted] at 11:41 AM on January 21, 2007
Probably, expletive, but I don't know it.
hal9k, thank you, I'm never going to get that image out of my head now. >_<
posted by Target Practice at 11:43 AM on January 21, 2007
hal9k, thank you, I'm never going to get that image out of my head now. >_<
posted by Target Practice at 11:43 AM on January 21, 2007
That's what happens when you make deals with countries whose language you haven't bothered to learn, let alone culture.
posted by deusdiabolus at 11:51 AM on January 21, 2007
posted by deusdiabolus at 11:51 AM on January 21, 2007
But if you'd cultured them, can you IMAGINE the size of those tentacles????????????
posted by Wilder at 1:00 PM on January 21, 2007
posted by Wilder at 1:00 PM on January 21, 2007
> these newfangled Japanese comics that are suddenly all the rage,
which makes me feel just about exactly the way I felt in 1992 or so when all you snot-nosed brats with .com addresses instead of .org, .net, or .mit.edu suddenly suddenly started spreading beer cans and diseases around on my internet. So now you want my manga, do you? Well, I'll just have to find something else cool that Time magazine won't hear about until 2026 or so.
It's all Berners-Lee's fault. No, it goes back even farther than that, it's all those grubby X developers who overlarded a for-dummies GUI on top of my lovely, austere shell command line.
posted by jfuller at 1:14 PM on January 21, 2007
which makes me feel just about exactly the way I felt in 1992 or so when all you snot-nosed brats with .com addresses instead of .org, .net, or .mit.edu suddenly suddenly started spreading beer cans and diseases around on my internet. So now you want my manga, do you? Well, I'll just have to find something else cool that Time magazine won't hear about until 2026 or so.
It's all Berners-Lee's fault. No, it goes back even farther than that, it's all those grubby X developers who overlarded a for-dummies GUI on top of my lovely, austere shell command line.
posted by jfuller at 1:14 PM on January 21, 2007
I don't know if it counts as being eponysterical, but I wanted to point out the I got a chuckle out of seeing a Walmart post from someone with "Target" in their name lol.
posted by amyms at 1:23 PM on January 21, 2007
posted by amyms at 1:23 PM on January 21, 2007
Dang, that is surprising. No Playboy, Penthouse, Playgirl, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition but hentai? Bizarre. And it's interesting WalMart sells different stuff online than off. I guess they think rednecks or Christian fundies don't surf the web and WalMart can hide their racy or progressive materials sales online? Grossly two-faced.
posted by nickyskye at 1:27 PM on January 21, 2007
posted by nickyskye at 1:27 PM on January 21, 2007
That's what happens when you make deals with countries whose language you haven't bothered to learn, let alone culture.
FWIW Eros Comics appears to be an imprint of Fantagraphics, who are based in Seattle.
posted by Artw at 1:56 PM on January 21, 2007
FWIW Eros Comics appears to be an imprint of Fantagraphics, who are based in Seattle.
posted by Artw at 1:56 PM on January 21, 2007
Also: Yikes! [NSFW, and TBH some of it looks a bit painfull]
Also with Alex In Sexland in their lineup I guess everyone can shut up about Lost Girls being smut.
posted by Artw at 2:00 PM on January 21, 2007
Also with Alex In Sexland in their lineup I guess everyone can shut up about Lost Girls being smut.
posted by Artw at 2:00 PM on January 21, 2007
Until I saw Nickyskye's link, I did not know that tentacle-sex was some sort of meme dating back at least 200 years. Wal-mart is merely capitalizing on the new hot thing. Tentacle-sex: the Hello Kitty of the new age.
Go away, Japanese id! You are scary! I am scared of you!^
posted by Methylviolet at 2:26 PM on January 21, 2007
Go away, Japanese id! You are scary! I am scared of you!^
posted by Methylviolet at 2:26 PM on January 21, 2007
A friend of mine who owned a comic book store did consulting for the company that wal-mart buys it's books from.
All he did was go through the list of available titles and choose the ones that wal-mart shoppers wouldn't find objectionable. He made thousands per month from that.
After a few years they thought they could figure it out themselves and fired him. There was immediately some sort of protest about some comic after that. That was about ten years ago.
I'd suggest they rehire the guy but I know he doesn't know shit about manga.
posted by nyxxxx at 2:42 PM on January 21, 2007
All he did was go through the list of available titles and choose the ones that wal-mart shoppers wouldn't find objectionable. He made thousands per month from that.
After a few years they thought they could figure it out themselves and fired him. There was immediately some sort of protest about some comic after that. That was about ten years ago.
I'd suggest they rehire the guy but I know he doesn't know shit about manga.
posted by nyxxxx at 2:42 PM on January 21, 2007
Googling has presented us with the wonder of:
20+ pages of Pink Sniper online
posted by Bugbread at 2:55 PM on January 21, 2007
20+ pages of Pink Sniper online
posted by Bugbread at 2:55 PM on January 21, 2007
I heard about this really great manga/anime artist... what was his name... Gunder... Gonder... Gonter.. something?
posted by arcticwoman at 4:20 PM on January 21, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by arcticwoman at 4:20 PM on January 21, 2007 [1 favorite]
Oh dear god bugbread. Youth interests are certainly... less vanilla than they were in previous generations.
posted by KingoftheWhales at 5:24 PM on January 21, 2007
posted by KingoftheWhales at 5:24 PM on January 21, 2007
What is wrong with this? I think the average wal-mart shopper is ready for some good old fashioned tentacle rape comics.
There, I fixed that for you.
posted by emelenjr at 6:23 PM on January 21, 2007
There, I fixed that for you.
posted by emelenjr at 6:23 PM on January 21, 2007
KingoftheWhales : "Youth interests are certainly... less vanilla than they were in previous generations."
I dunno about the readership of this particular comic, but I don't think there's any particular reason to assume that its a matter of youth interests: the average age of person-standing-in-front-of-porno-comics-section-of-bookstore here in Japan seems to be mid-30's, with an occasional 40 or 50 year old.
posted by Bugbread at 7:08 PM on January 21, 2007
I dunno about the readership of this particular comic, but I don't think there's any particular reason to assume that its a matter of youth interests: the average age of person-standing-in-front-of-porno-comics-section-of-bookstore here in Japan seems to be mid-30's, with an occasional 40 or 50 year old.
posted by Bugbread at 7:08 PM on January 21, 2007
You know, thank God for the internets and their lovely content flowing through those pipes. Without them, I'd never have known the first thing about hentai, tentacle rape, bukkake, the Cincinatti bowtie and many other things too numerous to mention here. They've really broadened my horizons.
posted by psmealey at 10:04 AM on January 22, 2007
posted by psmealey at 10:04 AM on January 22, 2007
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