My Anime List Strikes Again...

My Anime List recently posted some news on a new BL (specifically yaoi) anime. It's an adaptation of a manga called " Caressing the Nipples of my Hibernating Bear." Personally I have no interest in seeing the show nor reading it. However I was fascinated by the double standards of "NSFW" censorship on that site.

There were a couple of people who wanted to remove the cover picture, because seeing two chest exposed guys with booty shorts and somewhat questionable facial expressions is considered too lewd and not appropriate. The picture was removed and replaced with a picture of the title of the show (plus descriptions).

Upon digging into the depths of the MAL website, I have discovered numerous anime covers with NSFW cover pictures. I can assure you that some of them are a lot worse than the BL one. Now is this a question of censoring anything related to BL on MAL, because some homophobes and a couple of anti NSFW people hate those kinds of pictures? For many case, yes, as there are many people that like to spew out homophobic comments whenever anime adaptations look slightly gay in there eyes (cough** all male sports anime cough**). For other cases no, because even the cover page of Boku No Pico features the kids completely naked (Not posting the picture in comments for obvious reasons). In fact, the only "yaoi" tagged anime that have NSFW cover pictures feature characters who are or look like children.

So the "moral" of this story is that if the character is either a woman or a kid, 100% guarantee that MAL won't remove that NSFW cover picture.

Pictures will be posted in the comments below.

Small warning: I apologize in advance if any of the characters featured in the pictures may visibly look like minors. I'm not trying to promote such content. I know some people get "triggered" (can't find a more suitable term, sorry) about these kinds of things. So if you are, please be careful when you read the comment section.