The Ibaraki Prefectural Police claim the man sold a nude body pillow on May 2 on an online auction website containing nude characters from Love Live! Sunshine!!, violating the copyright of anime studio Sunrise, who created the series.
Anime body pillows, or dakimakuras, are very popular items of merchandise in the anime community. Who doesn’t love something huggable?
The Copyright Act in Japan lets authors control the economic rights of adaptation and how that adaptation is monetized.