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.
Sad panda is sad Today, 15 Dec 10, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly passed Bill 156 into law. As previously discussed, this law gives the Tokyo government additional powers to restrict the sales of manga, anime and video games based on two additional criteria: glorified or exaggerated depictions of illegal or incestuous sex acts. According to [...]
The law doesn’t touch this The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is set to pass new legislation restricting the sales of manga depicting certain sexual acts to minors under eighteen. Contrary to what certain easily-excitable individuals may proclaim, this is not a ban and this is not the end of the anime. But it will certainly pose [...]
A long time ago, I stumbled upon the Golden Boy OVA series on Nico Nico Douga and thought it was an odd and unique piece of work. It left a bit of an impression but I didn’t think much more of it. Recently, I had the chance to read the 10-volume manga series that it [...]
There’s no Code Geass this week, just some lousy recaps. Oh no, this blog is doomed! Wouldn’t someone in the animé industry and/or Japan please do something stupid and/or controversial again, so that I may regurgitate yet another pseudo editorial and pretend to be a wise intellectual? ecchi nano wa ikenai to omoimasu No? Nuts. [...]
Okay, so I’m just a little overdue for the next Japanese lesson chapter. It will come soon, I promise. Really. Anyway, I’m going to spend a little time today talking about the difference between hentai and ecchi and why Hentai, as we use it, is really an English word. There’s nothing NSFW. Really. Okay maybe [...]
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