>>59003523it's not ANYbodys subjective feelings. it's EVERYbody's subjective feelings.
Criminal convictions by jury in the US have to be UNANIMOUS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT.
Every member of the jury, after both sides have done jury selection, would have to feel deep to their bones that it is erotic in nature (sure), is entirely and can only be interpreted as fundamentally offensive, and that it can have absolutely no value at all outside of that exclusively offensive eroticism.
You really think a jury in 2026 won't have even one anime watcher on it? Everybody means EVERYbody, not just people who feel the same as some anon on the internet.
And that's not even accounting for the fact that apparently like 1 in 10 adult guys are biologically measurably attracted to women under 16.
There IS stuff where your lawyer would be very hard pressed to find any sympathetic souls at all that don't find it solely offensive. Memory serves, a lot of what Handley had was hardcore loli Bestiality and Guro specifically, which is why his lawyer pressured him on the plea deal. That and his jury of peers was 2003 South Iowa, he was probably the only weeaboo for miles, hell probably the only atheist for miles. The gamble wasn't worth the risk of ending up on the sex offender registry over comics.
But the fact that /b/ has frequent threads and there were mainstream memes about lewding Kanna Kamui is also proof that it's not patently offensive beyond all doubt to EVERYone. It's not a gamble in current year provided you don't like try to self-represent or something. There's a reason Handley is the ONLY such conviction.
