>>1444120i would like to see a court case about anime ecchi and hentai, since most anime characters are under 18, but also theres the international issue since its from japan and their laws are different than ours when it comes to sex.
as far as i know, anime hentai/ecchi (including loli) is legal, but extremely grey, there is the law in the US about drawn pictures of children having sex, but the 15-18 age group is largely ignored in the child pornography law at least in enforcement, never heard a word about it until the sexting cases and thats not even drawn.
tl;dr: it is technically illegal but considering how easy it would be to start enforcing it (google search rule 34 pokemon for example and start writing URLs), they just dont care to enforce it so for all practical purposes, its just pornography