documents leading
to the creation of the bill and information extracted by Tokyo Metropolitan
Assembly members indicate that BL (Boys Love,) Yaoi, Ladies Comics, romantic
Shojo Manga, and many publications aimed toward girls and women are being
targeted.
Why are women's publications more likely to be affected
by this bill? Because the common visual style in such material is not as
graphic as with men's publications, and therefore "not erotic, but dangerous
subject matter" criteria for regulation will probably have an impact of
women more than men's manga and anime fictio