SBS Dateline | Suspended Animation

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SBS Dateline | Suspended Animation

The ‘anime’ animation industry is big business, worth $2 billion a year, but it’s facing some major threats and many companies are turning to anime porn just to survive. The problems come from illegal downloading, which is hurting advertising sales, competition from overseas animators, and dwindling interest from anime’s traditional audience of Japanese children.

There’s also concern that the anime porn depicts children in sexually explicit scenarios. One game is even called RapeLay and lets players choose their victim’s age  - watch his report here.