Ah, the pin-up magazine. Long the best way to get tons of pictures of hot ladies to put up on the wall of your man-child sanctuary, the likes of Megami and Nyantype also served as a great source for ambitious desktop wallpaper-designers everywhere.

That age is over now, at least for folks shopping at Kinokuniya Books. The company's US branches have officially stopped stocking five anime/manga pin-up magazines, apparently over concerns that its content would look too loli for the unwitting, would-be whistleblower, ever trolling pop culture for "sick filth" to protect The Children from.

The affected publications include Megami, Megami Deluxe, Nyantype, Dengeki Hime, and Dengeki Moeoh. In addition, any subscriptions customers made to said magazines through Kinokuniya were canceled and the remaining fee refunded. Stores would continue to sell through their back issues, but would not receive any new ones.

According to an official letter (and a call to my local Kinokuniya), the main reason for the decision was the company's taking a cautious approach, realizing that the magazines in question contained content that might be considered "inappropriate".

Already we're beginning to see the chilling effects of the Christopher Handley sentencing.To be fair I can't really blame Kinokuniya. There's a fair bit of content in those magazines that would make the average loli-hater uncomfortable *cough*Railgun*cough*. Hell, some of them come with hug pillow covers and boob mousepads. But it's always sad to see a company intimidated by moral crusaders.

In any case, there are other sources for your nonexistent youth pin-up needs. J-list, for one, stocks back issues of several of the affected publications and more, so you can give that site a look (NSFW) if you're hurting for Hime hotness.