Child Safety Bill Could Cripple Anime Industry

[Nocturnal Gentleman]

One good thing that might come from this is that maybe for once western companies could actually start fucking supporting their animation studios so they're more than bad comedy or kids shows.

Ugh, I hope so. There are so many good western comics they could use. So many unique styles they could show off. Unfortunately, I still don't think they'll be motivated to do this. If they do try to make serious adult animation I'll watch tv again.

 

[cairocat]

I fucking called it! If Americans hate anything more than socialism, it's children experiencing great stories if they so much as have any kind of flesh in them. They're breasts, not the damnation of your children's innocence.

You realize that Tokyo is not actually in the United States, yes?

Sorry, I believe I misread. Apologies.

Preconceived rant-copypasta win.

 

[Darks63]

so i guess the 2nd season of high school of the living dead wont be finished i r sad.

 

[Gamegodtre]

i wonder if Panty and Stockings with Garterbelt will be affected...

 

[Super Toast]

I couldn't care less. Anime and Manga are the two types of Media I have no passion about whatsoever.

 

[SimuLord]

Normally not my thing to support censorship, but really, Japan, you brought this on yourself. Your country is synonymous with this sort of cultural detritus and "" reaction from the rest of the world. Considering what Japan came up with before fucked-up anime and manga (Kabuki, sumo, samurai, and other ritual that is truly worthy of admiration for the code of morals and ethics that it advances as their national character), I kind of want to say "eat it, weeaboos."

 

[Gamegodtre]

so i guess the 2nd season of high school of the living dead wont be finished i r sad.

what about Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt which is the funniest show ive seen in years how can it survive?

 

[Logic 0]

I feel the governments of the world are on some kind of censorship bender lately.

 

[DanDeFool]

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions..."

 

[SodaDew]

child safety... have you read 1984 or Fahrenheit 451? Because I see these books to be very similar to this horrible idea the government came up with...

 

[sarahvait]

Actually the one thing that bothers me most was that I read at ANN forum in regards to this situation, one guy said about this situation to everyone

Quoted from charizardpal from ANN

"I feel sorry for all the ignorant prunes reading this on the non-anime news sites, who smile and think to themselves that this is better for the children, who will be somehow injured by the prescence of Kanon (cousins in love), or Love Hina breif comedic nudity shots in the reading material of people nearly at the age of consent. Their moral fagotry is the reason Japanese comics became more dramatic and interesting to read than the Marvel comics of North America. And now they sit and cheer as creative thought is being crushed, and high school romance comics become increasingly restricted and devoid of all emotion. Those people make me sick...god help the Japanese children, let them not become as metally repressed as Westerners due to vague bills like this..."

And it is fuckers like this with their blanket statements that make people hate anime. Considering it as a "higher art form" because of whatever goddamn reason, and acting like that somehow makes them superior.

This is the post (ANN guy not you) of a textbook weeaboo. Fuck him.

You're right, but you're also making blanket statements. He's absolutely not superior to you, but you aren't superior to him either. You're kind of both in the wrong.

 

[FredTheUndead]

Wow, I'm seeing a lot of ignorant outrage over this.

"OH NOES, NOW how will I get my fix of ultraviolent Manga and weird fetish Anime?! Nanny state think of the childrens personal freedoms rargh"

You don't like how the government is running things? Protest!Oh wait, you probably don't live in japan and so protesting their government to change a law is both stupid and pointless.

Actually it's more you that's the ignorant one here, since again this is outlawing the depiction of illegal things in series that are NOT LABELED ADULT ONLY. In effect this means that every series is either Pokemon, Black Lagoon, or outright porn. The series that will be hit the hardest are shows like Dragonball, not fetish shows or gorefests.

im more worryed about Vampire Bund and anymore anime versions of Spice and Wolf

Vampire Bund won't get anything else made because it was hated while it aired and sold like crap. Spice and Wolf novels end in February anyway.

 

[FredTheUndead]

Normally not my thing to support censorship, but really, Japan, you brought this on yourself. Your country is synonymous with this sort of cultural detritus and "" reaction from the rest of the world. Considering what Japan came up with before fucked-up anime and manga (Kabuki, sumo, samurai, and other ritual that is truly worthy of admiration for the code of morals and ethics that it advances as their national character), I kind of want to say "eat it, weeaboos."

Yes yes Simulord, you think Japan is a country populated by pedophiles, now run along and fail to contribute to or actually read about some other thread's subject matter.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Fuck child safety. The last thing this world should be concerned with is the safety of its children. Especially in regards towards what they see in the media. That's the parents problem.

When I first started reading this post, i was like "What the hell is wrong with this guy?!", but then I was like "I agree with this statement."

 

[SimuLord]

Normally not my thing to support censorship, but really, Japan, you brought this on yourself. Your country is synonymous with this sort of cultural detritus and "" reaction from the rest of the world. Considering what Japan came up with before fucked-up anime and manga (Kabuki, sumo, samurai, and other ritual that is truly worthy of admiration for the code of morals and ethics that it advances as their national character), I kind of want to say "eat it, weeaboos."

Yes yes Simulord, you think Japan is a country populated by pedophiles, now run along and fail to contribute to or actually read about some other thread's subject matter.

Your reading comprehension disappoints me. I wasn't saying Japan's full of pedophiles, I was saying that all those anime and manga freaks are a bunch of pedophiles.

 

[Marik2]

i wonder if Panty and Stockings with Garterbelt will be affected...

I hope not D:

 

[Lullabye]

I feel the governments of the world are on some kind of censorship bender lately.

I noticed that too. Or maybe its because this is about stuff I care about.
*sigh*
We can only hope for the best.

 

[FredTheUndead]

So... they're trying to kill one of the biggest cultural exports?

I'm not a fan of anime or manga but even I think this is downright absurd if it can "cripple" an industry.

Their largest exports are cars and electronics. This won't phase their economy in the slightest.

CULTURAL export. Their cars and electronics look and function like other nations'. This however is distinctly Japanese, it's an image.

Okay, so cultural exports. A cultural export which includes animated child pornography. I don't see anything wrong with eliminating lolicon, but its their fault for being so vague with their description of harmful.

You realize it's not actually banning lolicon, right?

All it's doing is allowing stuff like Princess Tutu or Lyrical Nanoha to be called lolicon.

One good thing that might come from this is that maybe for once western companies could actually start fucking supporting their animation studios so they're more than bad comedy or kids shows.

...that would be a potent silver lining, yes, but probably not worth it.

How would it be not worth it? It would be totally worth it to see a resurgence of traditional 2D animation in North America. Will it happen? That is the problem, it isn't very likely, as much as I want it to happen.

So your theory is that Genndy Tartakovsky does not, in fact, exist?

 

[FredTheUndead]

Normally not my thing to support censorship, but really, Japan, you brought this on yourself. Your country is synonymous with this sort of cultural detritus and "" reaction from the rest of the world. Considering what Japan came up with before fucked-up anime and manga (Kabuki, sumo, samurai, and other ritual that is truly worthy of admiration for the code of morals and ethics that it advances as their national character), I kind of want to say "eat it, weeaboos."

Yes yes Simulord, you think Japan is a country populated by pedophiles, now run along and fail to contribute to or actually read about some other thread's subject matter.

Your reading comprehension disappoints me. I wasn't saying Japan's full of pedophiles, I was saying that all those anime and manga freaks are a bunch of pedophiles.

Yes, because every manga ever written has been about raping small children.

 

[DarkRyter]

Normally not my thing to support censorship, but really, Japan, you brought this on yourself. Your country is synonymous with this sort of cultural detritus and "" reaction from the rest of the world. Considering what Japan came up with before fucked-up anime and manga (Kabuki, sumo, samurai, and other ritual that is truly worthy of admiration for the code of morals and ethics that it advances as their national character), I kind of want to say "eat it, weeaboos."

Yes yes Simulord, you think Japan is a country populated by pedophiles, now run along and fail to contribute to or actually read about some other thread's subject matter.

Your reading comprehension disappoints me. I wasn't saying Japan's full of pedophiles, I was saying that all those anime and manga freaks are a bunch of pedophiles.

Your generalization of an entire fanbase offends me, but, to make a point about free expression, I will assert that you have every right to say it, regardless of whoever views it as wrong or immoral.

PS: Dude, why you gotta be a jerk to anime fans? What did they ever do to you?