{"id":1475,"date":"2010-12-15T22:35:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2010-12-15T22:35:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T14:35:28","slug":"predictions-on-the-fallout-from-tokyos-anti-manga-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2010\/12\/15\/predictions-on-the-fallout-from-tokyos-anti-manga-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictions on the fallout from Tokyo&#8217;s anti-manga law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/15_roger.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Rabbit\" style=\"width:400px; height:250px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/getnews.jp\/archives\/89064\">Gadget Tsuushin<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/getnews.jp\/archives\/89064\">getnews.jp<\/a>) 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2010\/12\/15\/tokyo-government-passed-anti-manga-bill-into-law\/\">has been passed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e3\u0192\u00bb\u00e6\u00bc\u00ab\u00e7\u201d\u00bb\u00e3\u0081\u00ae\u00e9\u203a\u00bb\u00e5\u00ad\u0090\u00e6\u203a\u00b8\u00e7\u00b1\u008d\u00e5\u0152\u2013\u00e3\u0081\u0152\u00e9\u20ac\u00b2\u00e3\u201a\u20ac\u00e3\u20ac\u201a<br \/>\n\u00e3\u0192\u00bb\u00e8\u00a3\u008f\u00e3\u201a\u00a2\u00e3\u0192\u2039\u00e3\u0192\u00a1\u00e3\u20ac\u0081\u00e6\u00bc\u00ab\u00e7\u201d\u00bb\u00e3\u0081\u0152\u00e5\u2021\u00ba\u00e5\u203a\u017e\u00e3\u201a\u2039\u00e3\u20ac\u201a<br 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href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kochira_Katsushika-ku_Kameari_K%C5%8Den-mae_Hashutsujo\">Kochikame<\/a>) will write an ironic manga instead (one where according to him, &#8220;Ryou-san, the main character in Kochikame, leads an ordinary life&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Other manga artist will follow suit<\/li>\n<li>A new entity similar to CERO for video games will be set up for anime and manga, and for some reason it will provide <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amakudari\">amakudari<\/a> jobs for retired officials<\/li>\n<li>Protest demonstrations will take place<\/li>\n<li>Kadokawa, Shueisha and the other companies will host anime events in Saitama or Chiba (prefectures near Tokyo)<\/li>\n<li>Korean comics and animation will gain in popularity<\/li>\n<li>There will be doujin adaptations of (Tokyo Governor) Shintarou Ishihara&#8217;s novels (which are said to be quite raunchy)<\/li>\n<li>The law will affect not only anime and comics but also regular and 18+ video games<\/li>\n<li>For some reason, novels are not affected<\/li>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>Publishers and distributors will move their offices out of Tokyo<\/li>\n<li>Online anime and manga will also be restricted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the original article on <a href=\"http:\/\/getnews.jp\/archives\/89064\">getnews.jp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I am most amused by the Roger Rabbit suggestion. It may just be crazy enough to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[375,256,946,255,947,722,51,376,241,945,366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}