Talk:Hatsune Miku/@comment-97.104.40.66-20150209215050/@comment-53539-20150210004417

@Anon, I remember when anime and manga first came to Europe on mass in the mid-90s. Pretty much the hardest thing to teach everyone was "its not porn". My parents generation believe that most of it was pornographic.

The reason is, pre-90s there was much looser rules and regulations on stuff. There was no age of consent... Basically... Japan did things very differently to what the west did, the west being driven by traditional Christian views of chastity. Regardless its only the last 20-30 years people have began to understand that its not all pornographic. So whenever you come across someone who didn't grow up with the "pokemon generation" of the 90s, they have very dated views on Japanese culture. I can remember spending 3 years trying to stop my own father referring to everything as "hentai" after my brother was discovered to have filled his computer with it... I also had to explain the stuff I was buying during my anime craze of the early-mid 2000s was not pornographic.

Even Vocaloid is not always viewed in a good light, because some producers have done songs like "Wash my blood" and the 6 most familair vocals are headed by Japanese characters. >_<