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Re: Anime Over - Anime & Manga Ban Passes
This will not mark the death of anime, manga and gaming (Yes this bill also affects games for those who dont know) from japan as we know it. It will just result in the fanservice heavy series will be pushed to the 18+ rating (I have also heard that hentai is also exempt from bill 156 for this reason). Also this law will only be in affect in Tokyo and nowhere else. This means that companies can move if the wish to publish their material. This is how kyoto animation are not going to be affected by this. This also can be a helping hand in the removal of heavy fanservice from anime which is not a bad thing (So long ikki tousen ^_^). Also its something like the this will only really come into effect if the author recieves 6 or more warnings within a twelve month period.
So you can still get your quality series. Also dont forget its questions the artistic merit of why they look like that. I am annoed that the person who thought up this is an extreme racist and homophobe. His ideals are severely outdated (But this can be attributed to Japanese culture) and he would be more comfortable in 1910 not 2010. He does blame homosexuals for a lot of things if you ever read any of his statements.
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Re: Anime Over - Anime & Manga Ban Passes
While its quite possible that the restrictions, move to 18+, etc... will be for stuff we've never heard of it will have a ripple down effect on the overall profitability of the publishers.
Similarly Tokyo is basically Japan so a ban or restriction there affects the profitability so much that it might as well be the whole country. Others have noted that items with an *adult* classification (Japan only as two, "general" and "adult") aren't sold through regular retail channels so its not like these things will just move to another rack. And as you point out Tokyo Governor Ishihara views: “Ishihara responded to the Tokyo Parent Teacher Association’s December 3 petition in support of the bill by saying, “It’s not just about children. We’ve got homosexuals casually appearing even on television. Japan has become far too untamed.” So will their restrictions cascade over to yuri/yaoi titles that aren't too explicit like Uraboku or Maria Watches Over Us or Togainu no Chi. Quote:
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Re: Anime Over - Anime & Manga Ban Passes
Anyone read about the protest event?
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/inte...-protest-event
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Re: Anime Over - Anime & Manga Ban Passes
I took a few interesting snippets from Dan Kanemitsu's blog that might help educate and put perspective on a few things.
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I'm going to say, I've only skimmed the bill, and I'm not too happy with it. I'm not a big fan of censorship in any fashion. I'm instead for parenting, and categorization or a rating system , yeah kinda censorship, but its better to warn and inform than to strip the creative muse from an author. As everyone has said the bill is too vague to actually do anything and to me is like the CMAA, but a Japanese version might come to existence which scares me. I'm really hoping that the bill only focuses on the doujin industry and some of the more extreme exceses that are allowed to be published. I'm a fan of doujins, but seriously stealing stuff from creative geniuses for you own profit is a bad thing. And on the homosexual thing, I'm hoping this whole thing isn't a conservative crack down on homosexuals because Japan is facing depopulation as we all know. All these issues better not correspond politically with manga or I will be even more upset.
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Re: Anime Over - Anime & Manga Ban Passes
It's only anime and mangas that are affected, the man behind the bill has written some nasty crap in his life one he had made into a manga and of course that's not touched, including nudity on tv.
This will heavily affect the anime/manga series because it also has problems against showing anything with underage kids where even school uniforms are being banned. I just love how so many companies are banding together to say FU government you arent working with us or even talking to us but just slamming the door in the face....the response well deal with it, if you arent here this year next year you will crawl back |
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There are problems with the excesses that have come to be allowed in doujins, manga, anime, and the industry as a whole. However, like everyone here I believe that there are other ways in doing what they are doing. Just card people.... its a lot easier.
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Wow perhaps he feels guilty for exposing children to the stuff he has written?
They need to be careful. They can go a little too far. They should think about all of the media and I think they haven't covered the nudity because you know how immature some people get when trying to let go of a form of masturbation.
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Re: Anime Over - Anime & Manga Ban Passes
While I appreciate the passion of many of the opinions I've read in this discussion, I cannot help but feel that they are somewhat overly-reactionary in nature. Japan is a culture of many centuries, and has changed more in the last 150 years than almost any Western nation or society in the same period. And that change is a continuing process. While we might cringe at the legal proceedings we are witnessing in Tokyo right now, we need remember that even here in the West censorship is still a very real problem. It must also be remembered that advances in personal (among them, artistic) freedoms often provoke harsh social reactions, whatever the society or culture. What is gained is often lost, at least in part, only to be regained later. In truth, I marvel that the anime industry blossomed so fully in Japan to begin with--of course maintaining its creative freedom will be challenging. But are we really so far beyond such restrictions ourselves, when news outlets so recently reported books being banned from public school libraries for "promoting witchcraft?" Freedom, once experienced, is much more likely to be curtailed rather than permanently lost. Be patient--I doubt this law will prove either as effectively restrictive or long-lasting as its author[s] hope[s].
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I kind of found out something; Among American television. Though not legally, The industry itself is overdoing it with making franchises or trying to make them "kid friendly"....Its a trend that was creeping forward but went into full swing when Toonami met its death.(I question if Toonami has died at all, TOM did say something that sounded more like he was going to comeback.)
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