Yaranaika meme’s source manga Kuso Miso Technique banned in Japan by Amazon 

Kuso Miso Technique, the manga that inspired the immortal Yaranaika (Shall we do it?) meme and recently crowdfunded a whole OVA adaptation, has been banned from Amazon in Japan, its home country. The official X account managing the series shared the news on September 18 in the following tweet: 

Sad news. My comic has been banned by Amazon in Japan. For explicit sexual depictions, they say. They really had to go there. But you can still buy the Japanese version from overseas Amazon stores. By the way, look at my balls. What do you think? 

Junichi Yamakawa’s Kuso Miso Technique is an adult comic first published back in 1987 in the gay men’s magazine Barazoku. A decade later, scanned images from the manga started blowing up across Japanese imageboards, spawning endless parodies using the characters’ faces. The Yaranaika meme soon spread overseas, with equal intensity. 

Kuso Miso Technique became part of peoples’ collective memory to the point that it’s still relevant years later – the manga’s medium-length anime adaptation aired in April this year after a successful crowdfunding campaign. Titled Shin Yaranai Ka, the PG-13 rated OVA amassed a production budget of 8 million yen. 

However, despite popular demand, it seems Amazon Japan is not eager to distribute the original Kuso Miso Technique manga. Despite being approved for sale on the US Amazon store, the manga can no longer be purchased domestically. This has left people curious about Amazon’s apparent double standards.