Lou Cypher said:
The MD prerelease sleeves (As well as MT, SW and GE) tear down really quickly, that might've been the cause.
As far as Dark Magician Girl is concerned, she tends to show a lot of cleavage.
I thought the "parent friendly" stuff would've been concerning outright frontal nudity, as far as sexual content is concerned. I mean, I see plenty of playmats and deck boxes with barely-dressed women. One deck box I saw today at Pasadena had a picture of a woman completely naked except for cross-shaped suction cups placed over her nipples.
I'd figure something like THAT would be aroud the limits of inappropriateness. Dark Magician Girl shows a fair amount of cleavage and has a very short skirt, but this is kind of typical of your modern anime magical girl.
I mean, nothing official from
Yu-Gi-Oh! has ever shown a panty shot of her, which actually makes her among the most appropriate of 20th-century magical girls. (May from the
Pokémon TV show has a shorter skirt, and she isn't immune from panty shots or random swimsuit scenes.)
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Sorry. I really had to get that out, since it was bothering me that the standards for appropriateness are set pretty high and people are expected to perfectly understand. We're talking about a product from Japan here, where half of the children's animation is borderline porn.