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Originally Posted by Happy_Chip
The last time I was in Japan, I was in a smaller DVD/CD store [I can't recall where, but I don't think it was Akihabara].
In the part of the store that sold DVDs, there was a section labelled 'Kid's Anime'.
Within that section were DVDs of 'Girls Bravo' (!)
is this considered content appropriate for children? or was this some kind of mixup?
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I think no.
Girls Bravo is rated as R-15 (should be restricted to those less than 15 yo) by
Eirin. However, unlike MPAA in the US, the rating system in Japan is quite voluntary and therefore has much less power neither de facto nor de jure. Nor an average Japanese do care for such small rating label attached to the package of DVD. Most of the working individuals in video shops are unprofessional part-timers, so it is possible "some kind of mixup" occur there.
By the way, as Vexx pointed, I admit Japanese people are (have been) tolerant on sexual imagination. Whoever sees
Hokusai's artwork in 1820 could understand the origin of sexual aspect of otaku culture, I think.