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** As of now, [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the bill was finally passed and signed into law]]. And since the bill itself wasn\'t already bad enough, its wording was changed to restrict depictions \
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** As of now, [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the bill was finally passed and signed into law]]. And since the bill itself wasn\\\'t already bad enough, its wording was changed to restrict depictions \\\"promoting illegal or immoral sexual activity\\\". This basically means they can restrict ANY sort of manga, anime etc. which show even the slightest hint of sexual undertones. [[WallBanger Strangely enough photographic material isn\\\'t affected by this restriction]], giving you the impression that [[FanHater this bill was solely created to piss off the Otaku fandom.]] [[FlatWhat WHAT THE HELL?!?]] Click [[http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/12/15/tokyo-manga-ban-signed-into-law/ here]] for further information. As you will notice when reading the comments, the Anime community [[{{Understatement}} isn\\\'t very pleased]] by this developement. It doesn\\\'t help that [[{{Troll}} Ishihara]] is basically trolling the manga and anime industry in his latest interviews.
** The bill also restricts any depictions of crime or encouragement thereof. Weapons, theft, consumption of alcohol or cigarettes etc., everything would have to be censored. So it would theoretically possible to restrict ANY shounen series, since they contain even the slightest bits of the things mentioned before most of the time.
*** The best the otaku nation, especially in Tokyo, can hope for is for the law to be tightened like the Coroners and Justice Act amendment was (see United Kingdom, below).
*** Maybe I had a bad source, but as I recall, there are two things that aren\\\'t mentioned about this law in the above posts: 1. There is mention in the legislation that artistic, etc. meaning/usage of restricted material of any covered material is taken into account when passing judgement (that is, if artistic grounds can be reasoned, there\\\'s less of a chance of restriction; blatant fanservice (already considered poor taste by many otaku, at least in certain circles, especially with underage subjects) doesn\\\'t get a free pass), and 2. There was preexisting legislation covering photographic material; this only covers animation because it wasn\\\'t taken into consideration in previous laws (the characters didn\\\'t exist, so no real apparently underage person was being exploited).
** Update: As it seems, the whole thing is going to blow over. The various publishers and mangaka are [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome boycotting the Tokyo Animation Fair, which is actually headed by]] [[StrawmanPolitical Ishi]][[TooDumbToLive hara]]. Also, resistance is increasing, as the BlatantLies that were spouted by Ishihara and his cronies have actually subsided, as people are, understandably, [[UnstoppableRage pissed off]].
Look, regardless of your position on the subject, this has just turned into about five blogs. Someone re-enter this simply stating the facts of this bill and where the law applies.
And look at some of those potholes and tell me this isn\\\'t politically loaded. Censorship is bad, fine, I get it, but we don\\\'t need this monster.
** The bill also restricts any depictions of crime or encouragement thereof. Weapons, theft, consumption of alcohol or cigarettes etc., everything would have to be censored. So it would theoretically possible to restrict ANY shounen series, since they contain even the slightest bits of the things mentioned before most of the time.
*** The best the otaku nation, especially in Tokyo, can hope for is for the law to be tightened like the Coroners and Justice Act amendment was (see United Kingdom, below).
*** Maybe I had a bad source, but as I recall, there are two things that aren\\\'t mentioned about this law in the above posts: 1. There is mention in the legislation that artistic, etc. meaning/usage of restricted material of any covered material is taken into account when passing judgement (that is, if artistic grounds can be reasoned, there\\\'s less of a chance of restriction; blatant fanservice (already considered poor taste by many otaku, at least in certain circles, especially with underage subjects) doesn\\\'t get a free pass), and 2. There was preexisting legislation covering photographic material; this only covers animation because it wasn\\\'t taken into consideration in previous laws (the characters didn\\\'t exist, so no real apparently underage person was being exploited).
** Update: As it seems, the whole thing is going to blow over. The various publishers and mangaka are [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome boycotting the Tokyo Animation Fair, which is actually headed by]] [[StrawmanPolitical Ishi]][[TooDumbToLive hara]]. Also, resistance is increasing, as the BlatantLies that were spouted by Ishihara and his cronies have actually subsided, as people are, understandably, [[UnstoppableRage pissed off]].
Look, regardless of your position on the subject, this has just turned into about five blogs. Someone re-enter this simply stating the facts of this bill and where the law applies.
And look at some of those potholes and tell me this isn\\\'t politically loaded. Censorship is bad, fine, I get it, but we don\\\'t need this monster.
Changed line(s) 2 from:
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** As of now, [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the bill was finally passed and signed into law]]. And since the bill itself wasn\'t already bad enough, its wording was changed to restrict depictions \
to:
** As of now, [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the bill was finally passed and signed into law]]. And since the bill itself wasn\\\'t already bad enough, its wording was changed to restrict depictions \\\"promoting illegal or immoral sexual activity\\\". This basically means they can restrict ANY sort of manga, anime etc. which show even the slightest hint of sexual undertones. [[WallBanger Strangely enough photographic material isn\\\'t affected by this restriction]], giving you the impression that [[FanHater this bill was solely created to piss off the Otaku fandom.]] [[FlatWhat WHAT THE HELL?!?]] Click [[http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/12/15/tokyo-manga-ban-signed-into-law/ here]] for further information. As you will notice when reading the comments, the Anime community [[{{Understatement}} isn\\\'t very pleased]] by this developement. It doesn\\\'t help that [[{{Troll}} Ishihara]] is basically trolling the manga and anime industry in his latest interviews.
** The bill also restricts any depictions of crime or encouragement thereof. Weapons, theft, consumption of alcohol or cigarettes etc., everything would have to be censored. So it would theoretically possible to restrict ANY shounen series, since they contain even the slightest bits of the things mentioned before most of the time.
*** The best the otaku nation, especially in Tokyo, can hope for is for the law to be tightened like the Coroners and Justice Act amendment was (see United Kingdom, below).
*** Maybe I had a bad source, but as I recall, there are two things that aren\\\'t mentioned about this law in the above posts: 1. There is mention in the legislation that artistic, etc. meaning/usage of restricted material of any covered material is taken into account when passing judgement (that is, if artistic grounds can be reasoned, there\\\'s less of a chance of restriction; blatant fanservice (already considered poor taste by many otaku, at least in certain circles, especially with underage subjects) doesn\\\'t get a free pass), and 2. There was preexisting legislation covering photographic material; this only covers animation because it wasn\\\'t taken into consideration in previous laws (the characters didn\\\'t exist, so no real apparently underage person was being exploited).
** Update: As it seems, the whole thing is going to blow over. The various publishers and mangaka are [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome boycotting the Tokyo Animation Fair, which is actually headed by]] [[StrawmanPolitical Ishi]][[TooDumbToLive hara]]. Also, resistance is increasing, as the {{BlatantLies}} that were spouted by Ishihara and his cronies have actually subsided, as people are, understandably, [[UnstoppableRage pissed off]].
Look, regardless of your position on the subject, this has just turned into about five blogs. Someone re-enter this simply stating the facts of this bill and where the law applies.
And look at some of those potholes and tell me this isn\\\'t politically loaded. Censorship is bad, fine, I get it, but we don\\\'t need this monster.
** The bill also restricts any depictions of crime or encouragement thereof. Weapons, theft, consumption of alcohol or cigarettes etc., everything would have to be censored. So it would theoretically possible to restrict ANY shounen series, since they contain even the slightest bits of the things mentioned before most of the time.
*** The best the otaku nation, especially in Tokyo, can hope for is for the law to be tightened like the Coroners and Justice Act amendment was (see United Kingdom, below).
*** Maybe I had a bad source, but as I recall, there are two things that aren\\\'t mentioned about this law in the above posts: 1. There is mention in the legislation that artistic, etc. meaning/usage of restricted material of any covered material is taken into account when passing judgement (that is, if artistic grounds can be reasoned, there\\\'s less of a chance of restriction; blatant fanservice (already considered poor taste by many otaku, at least in certain circles, especially with underage subjects) doesn\\\'t get a free pass), and 2. There was preexisting legislation covering photographic material; this only covers animation because it wasn\\\'t taken into consideration in previous laws (the characters didn\\\'t exist, so no real apparently underage person was being exploited).
** Update: As it seems, the whole thing is going to blow over. The various publishers and mangaka are [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome boycotting the Tokyo Animation Fair, which is actually headed by]] [[StrawmanPolitical Ishi]][[TooDumbToLive hara]]. Also, resistance is increasing, as the {{BlatantLies}} that were spouted by Ishihara and his cronies have actually subsided, as people are, understandably, [[UnstoppableRage pissed off]].
Look, regardless of your position on the subject, this has just turned into about five blogs. Someone re-enter this simply stating the facts of this bill and where the law applies.
And look at some of those potholes and tell me this isn\\\'t politically loaded. Censorship is bad, fine, I get it, but we don\\\'t need this monster.
