I want to buy physical books, but I wonder if they are legal

Hello,
I was interested in buying physical mangas, because I have a physical collection of them, but I don't own any hentai book yet.
I don't like to read digital copies much.
I wanted to buy some from here, but I was worried, in particular for the title 'Fakku Cherry & GALs' from 'Marui Marui', because I don't know if is legal in my country; I live in Italy.
I've seen that that book from Fakku is also listed on United Publication, a web store based in the UK I think.
How can I know if is legal to order that particular book from Fakku store or United Publication and have it delivered to Italy? Do I have to be afraid of customs?
Does anybody have experience with that?

Thank you for your help!

Well if you can buy porn in Italy then this book wouldn't get you arrested. Taxed the fuck maybe. Only lolicon and shotacon would be something to be worried about.

Well maybe I should avoid buying books from Marui Marui, because they might be flagged as such.
Thank you for your help, Probably I can avoid taxation by buying fakku books from UK United Publications, it would be cheaper since there should be no custom from there yet. So I guess I will have to check well category tags before buying them.

United Publication is good. Don't know with Covid tho.

I don't think loli and shota will be an issue.

Thank you, never bought from them, but I bought some regular manga from the Uk recently and they arrived, late but in the end were delivered.


Maybe I will buy other authors first, because Marui Maru is a bit on the edge on that; even if I think they are still drawings, maybe for many people the ok line is thin in hentai. I think the same as you tho, but I am bit scared ordering, even if the fact that a store in the UK has the book available makes me think is legal, because I think they are strict with that kind of material there.

Thank you very, much. I will now check this other shop as well! These seem all better solutions than going through customs.

You will have a great experience buying from United Publications, I am based in the UK and have ordered 68 FAKKU books from them so far and blurays and other books, they pack well and deliver fast.

The packaging is very discreet. I don't think you will have any problems ordering from UK to Italy. I know people personally who have purchased these titles to other EU countries and one in Asia with no problems either.

Thank you for the info, there are not customs yet from UK afaik; I noticed there will be custom and taxes at the end of the year, as consequence of brexit.
I am still a bit in doubt about ordering tho, I wonder if they check packages internationally. There are very few hentai publications in Italy, so I wonder how would they consider importing it and if they do inspect the package at borders. I don't want to risk and law is a bit unclear here on the subject.

Didn't know. We don't have customs fees here unless it over 800$

I can't say specifically for FAKKU but there is a huge Hentai Book publisher in France called Hot Manga, I believe they have also published some books that FAKKU has as well. If you search Hot Manga on Amazon UK, DE, IT, ES, FR you will see Amazon stocks these books themselves for Prime delivery all across Europe.

Now regarding the law, this is what I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_drawn_pornography_depicting_minors#Italy

It would appear there are laws in place, but some countries do not act on them. A quick google search about the legality of drawn porn containing loli mentions that it is legal in Italy and the police to not pursue prosecution. You should be able to google these yourself and there are plenty of links talking about it.

If you shop for these books on Amazon, The Book Depository and other stores that ship to Italy, they will usually tell you if the material you are ordering can be sent there or not. I doubt they will send it if it contains illegal content.

Don't take anything I have said as facts though. I'm just trying to provide you some information I found myself which might be useful!

I had no problems ordering the books you mentioned into the UK from up1. Though when I first discovered FAKKU even I was nervous and did my research first before placing an order!

Also a lot of packages even within Europe do get checked, but these are random. Once they go through an x-ray machine they don't tend to pick out a book. But these checks are random and they can pull a book to the side for a random check as part of procedure, or they just dump a mail sack to the side and check the entire contents of it and call it a day.

Out of maybe thousands of packages myself from within EU and outside I have never seen signs of my packages being officially opened. They usually leave a sticker on the package telling you it was inspected.

Thank you very much for all the additional information. I didn't know how they deal with goods crossing borders in Eu.
Actually I googled about legality before and that's why I became a bit full of doubt. I read the link you provided, but I had already found on more than one forum, italian people claiming that hentai with loli fall in a grey area not well defined by the law and subject to interpretation. So if I consider an order I will try to check very well the tags, I think, because I don't want to do something illegal. Maybe I am overthinking, but I guess you had the same doubts on your first order.

It's a bit weird that that kind of material is easyly findable through google from anybody by piracy, but you have to worry if it happens to be on pages on a book that you want to own legally, because you prefer supporting authors.

Anyway thanks again, they're all very good information, they're helping me making my mind up on what to order and from where.