{"id":37186,"date":"2024-09-18T14:42:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T05:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=37186"},"modified":"2024-09-18T14:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T05:42:58","slug":"yaranaika-memes-source-manga-kuso-miso-technique-banned-in-japan-by-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/nongaming-news\/yaranaika-memes-source-manga-kuso-miso-technique-banned-in-japan-by-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaranaika meme\u2019s source manga Kuso Miso Technique banned in Japan by Amazon\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kuso Miso Technique<\/strong>, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ksms_official\/status\/1835925957548671189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweet<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ebebeb\"><em>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?<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Junichi Yamakawa\u2019s Kuso Miso Technique is an adult comic first published back in 1987 in the gay men\u2019s magazine Barazoku. A decade later, scanned images from the manga started blowing up across Japanese imageboards, spawning endless parodies using the characters\u2019 faces. The Yaranaika meme soon spread overseas, with equal intensity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kuso Miso Technique became part of peoples\u2019 collective memory to the point that it\u2019s still relevant years later \u2013 the manga\u2019s 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3010\u4e88\u544a\u7de8\u3011\u65b0\u30fb\u3084\u3089\u306a\u3044\u304b\u3010\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u7248\u300e\u304f\u305d\u307f\u305d\u30c6\u30af\u30cb\u30c3\u30af\u300f\u6700\u65b0\u4e88\u544a\u3011\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9phU1LjFSeU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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.\u00a0This has left people curious about Amazon&#8217;s apparent double standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuso Miso Technique, the manga that inspired the immortal Yaranaika meme and recently crowdfunded an OVA adaptation, has been banned from Amazon in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":37190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-37186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nongaming-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yaranaika meme\u2019s source manga Kuso Miso Technique banned in Japan by Amazon\u00a0 - 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