Predictions on the fallout from Tokyo’s anti-manga law
Gadget Tsuushin (getnews.jp) has made some tongue-in-cheek predictions about what will happen now that the Tokyo Metropolitan legislation restricting sales of certain targeted manga and anime has been passed.
・漫画の電子書籍化が進む。
・裏アニメ、漫画が出回る。
・秋本治（『こち亀』の作者）が皮肉漫画を描く（本人が「両さんが普通の生活を送ることになる」と発言）。
・上記に続きほかの作者も皮肉漫画を描く。
・ゲーム業界の“CERO”の様な物がアニメ、漫画にも設けられる。何故かそれを審査するのが官僚天下り。
・反対デモ運動が行われる。
・角川、集英社などが埼玉、千葉でアニメイベントを開催する。
・ここぞとばかりに韓流コミック、アニメをゴリ押しする動きが出てくる。
・石原慎太郎の小説が同人で漫画化。
・アニメ、コミックだけでなく一般ゲーム、アダルトゲームにまで影響が出る
・何故か小説には影響でない。
・法の抜け穴として『ロジャー・ラビット』のような実写とアニメの合成作品が多数作られる。
・出版社と発行者の住所が都内じゃなくなってる。
・ネットのアニメや漫画も規制される。
Translated:
- Digitization of manga
- Distribution of underground manga and anime
- Osamu Akimoto (author of Kochikame) will write an ironic manga instead (one where according to him, “Ryou-san, the main character in Kochikame, leads an ordinary life”)
- Other manga artist will follow suit
- A new entity similar to CERO for video games will be set up for anime and manga, and for some reason it will provide amakudari jobs for retired officials
- Protest demonstrations will take place
- Kadokawa, Shueisha and the other companies will host anime events in Saitama or Chiba (prefectures near Tokyo)
- Korean comics and animation will gain in popularity
- There will be doujin adaptations of (Tokyo Governor) Shintarou Ishihara’s novels (which are said to be quite raunchy)
- The law will affect not only anime and comics but also regular and 18+ video games
- For some reason, novels are not affected
- In order to circumvent the law, there will be new hybrid productions that combine live photography with anime, similar to the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Publishers and distributors will move their offices out of Tokyo
- Online anime and manga will also be restricted
You can read the original article on getnews.jp.
Personally I am most amused by the Roger Rabbit suggestion. It may just be crazy enough to work.
December 16th, 2010 at 8:22 am
At least this only affects Tokyo, right? As long as companies such as Shueisha move away, the industry itself shouldn’t change much. Personally, I think that some Korean works are very good and would like to see them gain popularity.
December 16th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Who Framed Roger Rabbit style porn? FUND IT.
December 16th, 2010 at 10:58 am
Yes but Tokyo is a huge market. If your book can’t be sold in Tokyo outside of the 18+ corners, then it may be commercially not viable to fund its creation in the first place.
December 17th, 2010 at 12:08 am
I second the motion for Ishihara niji-sousaku rape doujinshi. Ideally they should be distributed openly in Shinjuku, nihonbashi, and places with lots of ippanjin. The idea about circumventing the law is very interesting though.. imagine a harem anime where all the girls are 2D but the guy is an actor, with the anime girls overlay-ed over the filming… hmm…
December 17th, 2010 at 9:22 am
The roger rabbit idea won’t work. Cartoon Network tried to sell it to kids and failed hard. That movie probably got like 1 out of 10 stars. I forget the name of the movie because it is totally not memorable. But, roger rabbit was great in its day; however, it doesn’t work as well anymore just because how much the graphics have changed.
January 1st, 2011 at 7:14 pm
I suspect you have already read it, but in the off case you haven’t, I believe that that post would be interesting to you (about a doujin that protests against bill 156): http://dankanemitsu.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/monkey-business-counterattack-on-bill-156-doujin-style/