I couldn't care less about the anime & manga industries but legislating morality is never a good idea. Worse still is legislating at the level where parents should be taking action to protect their kids.
Child Safety Bill Could Cripple Anime Industry
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Even if I disliked anime this would be horrible for it is killing a art form.Gildan Bladeborn said:
Now im curious how much revenue the anime/manga industry brings to Tokyo. If its significant, i'd agree with the assessment that they should all just move out! That would really teach them!
Did anyone check that this isn't just the work of a disguised Michael Atkinson? Sounds like he's jumped ship to Japan and is no working to uproot everything else he hates.
It was bound to happen eventually. With Japanese anime on one side and the super rigid, super conservative parts of Japanese culture on the other, well, it just had to happen at some point.
Color me unsurprised.
Color me unsurprised.
Excellent response there, sir. I was struggling to come up with something un-crazy to say about the whole "fucking weeaboos" and "anime suxors, who gives a shit" posts, but you summed it up quite well.DarkRyter said:
Potentially gutting an industry for the sake of censorship is an outrageous, morally blind act of injustice. The fact that it's of Japanese animation and comic books is irrelevant.
Last i checked he went to america to spend time with his lord and master: Jack Thompson.Andy of Comix Inc said:
OT: I already commented on this on another thread so i won't bother repeating myself to much. However, i will say that the bill is bloody stupid. I like anime alot, and i would rather not see it censored...What happened to you Japan? You used to be cool!
Ever heard this quote?Gildan Bladeborn said:
"They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
Pastor Martin Niemöller
Edit: Okay guys; I've figured out what's going on here. Japan is going nazi again. Ready the bombs.
y'know, I'm really wondering how this could affect some of my fav series and works like Vagabond, Blade of the Immortal, Black Lagoon, Claymore, Berserk, Vampire Hunter D, Evangelion, the works of the late Satoshi Kon, and tons others. This is once again a case of someone in power doing what he can to censor stuff not because he believes it's good for the people, but because HE JUST DOESN'T LIKE THIS. Though the last time stuff like this actually worked was the Comics Code Authority and that was back in the fifties.
First of all, I'll start with this sentence here by inserting something I don't care about and something I do care about into the proper places; then we'll see how this inspiring sentence sounds.DarkRyter said:
If you cannot protect Ted Bundy, how can you protect your child?
Second of all, no Japan's major economical gains are not rooted in the anime industry. Anime in Japan is not a country-wide phenomenon that everyone loves and reads. Anime is read/watched and made in Japan by pretty much the same people that read/watch and make comics here in America. So, no, gutting the industry wouldn't completely destroy Japan and make it explode off the map.
More to the point of the article, censorship is a slippery slope. But, it's definitely one that's necessary to attempt because the alternative is no censorship. This is difficult for a lot of the posters to understand here, mostly because, unless by pure accident, many of them don't have children. If they did, or if they had basic interaction with children outside of the anime world, they'd realize first and foremost that children will get their hands on everything. What's that, mom? Don't buy the comic book called "Yada-yada"? You got it; in no way shape or form will forbiddence turn that into a forever tempting mystery. And if you respond with "Well clearly those are terrible parents who never watch their children" then congratulations, because you sprouted from the ground at the age of 16 or you were shackled to a wall until you were 16. However, you do drastically cut down on the number of children exposed if you take the care to separate what's meant for more adult minds and what's more child-friendly. This is really a non-issue with books, movies, and artwork as long as the packaging isn't overly explicit. Adult books aren't exactly appealing to youngsters as the subject matter usually isn't interesting enough for them to sit through it long enough. Movies can't be bought outright (ZOMG! censorship means I have to be 17 to buy this, or at least look old enough), and a kid can't exactly sit in the aisle of the store and thumb through a movie. Art is interpretive as it is presented in still-form and without context, subject to the observer's mindset. But comic books provide the graphic representation of movies with the easy accessibility of books. So, for the same reason that Playboy and Hustler and packaged in those black plastic bags with the YOU MUST BE 18 TO BUY stamp on them, it's not exactly unreasonable to ask that anime with sexual themes or tones of incest or underage be put towards the back with the adult materials. Christ, Oedipus married and banged his mom by accident, and even he had the decency to put out his own eyes afterwards.
TL;DR: I'm sorry your favorite anime character has the body and face of a 6 year old but is supposed to be 28 and dresses like she's 17 and mad at her parents. Take a picture of a woman, let's say 25 for good measure, send it in to your favorite anime author and say, "This is how they're supposed to look like." And for good measure, do the same with a picture of a 28 year old man too because I'm pretty sure they all got stuck in the 6-15 age range.
Btw the gunman missed all of his shots. Security shot him then he shot himself.Hatchet90 said:
I just watched every episode of Code Geass in protest. Well I was halfway done when I read this. But still!