Retailers are already reacting to a recent Texas bill by pulling manga from shelves, including issues of Dragon Ball and more.

The bill SB20 appears to have noble intentions with language going after generative AI being used to create material which simulates realistic child exploitation. However the bill also includes vague references to “cartoons”.

As previously reported, there’s plenty of manga and anime which could hypothetically run afoul of this bill, while anime featuring fanservice or sexual violence such as Goblin Slayer are obvious targets, retro anime which features casual nudity is also on the chopping block. For anyone familiar, it’s a running gag in the original Dragon Ball for a young Goku to run around naked.

As a result, at least one retailer made the decision to pull these earlier volumes from shelves, and be more restrictive on what he will allow customers to order.

“There’s so much media nowadays, you can’t watch every single thing or read everything, so I don’t know what characters are shown inappropriately, at what ages, and whatnot. It would definitely be more like in-detail research on certain franchises, if they’re going to be affected or not,”

SB 20 was signed into law this past June and to our knowledge there have yet to be any cases which test its constitutionality.