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Tag Archives: censorship
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.
Posted in Otaku
Tagged censorship, ecchi, getnews, hentai, humour, industry, japan, law, lolicon, shintarou ishihara, tokyo
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Tokyo Government passed anti-manga bill into law
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Otaku
Tagged censorship, ecchi, hentai, industry, japan, law, lolicon, shintarou ishihara, tokyo
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Tokyo Government to pass tough ordinance against mature manga
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Manga, Otaku, Rant
Tagged censorship, ecchi, hentai, industry, japan, law, lolicon, shintarou ishihara, tokyo
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Freedom to Think
Shingo over at Heisei Democracy has put up a detailed time line of the recent anime-related controversies that are causing niche doujinshi artists to come under fire from mainstream Japanese media. It’s a rather disturbing development which mirrors that of … Continue reading
Re: Possible Japanese Censorship Law
I wrote too much while replying to tj han’s comments on my previous post about this issue, so I decided to make another one. Once again, I would like to stress that I am not a lolicon. I am disgusted … Continue reading
Possible Japanese Censorship Law
Things like this piss me off. Japanese National Police Agency’s New Law against “Manga, Anime, Game Expression” Today, I got an email from a Japanese creator, letting us know about the new law currently being discussed to be applied by … Continue reading
Censored
Kinokuniya just called today to inform me that they are unable to bring in my order for School Days Sekai-hen because it failed to get pass the Singapore Censorship Board. Considering the number of actual pornographic Japanese novels on display … Continue reading