Anti-Otaku bill passed.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Why can not the otaku items simply be rated?

Also, I've read Ecchi manga such as Tenju Tenge: shouldn't there be a "mature" section with a "prove of DOB" verification process to keep 8 year olds from buying what I, myself, would consider to be somewhat pornographic? (You could call my attitude generally "ero" to begin with, but some of that seinin stuff is pornographic at parts)

Originally posted by King Kandy
Um, that's exactly what this does. Adult manga has to be relocated to "adult only" sections of bookstores that require ID to buy from. Manga with adult themes are not going to be banned; they're simply being forced to relocate to 18+ sale.

I thought it would require it to be in adult only stores, not sections, which would greatly reduce their ability to sell.

Edit -

"The generally expected form the law will take is that of a “amakudari” (a pervasive system of sinecures for retired bureaucrats) body which will inspect all anime, manga and games, with only those titles receiving approval as “healthy” able to be sold regularly in Tokyo shops – the rest will be relegated to the “adult corner.”"

Okay, cool. that's not so bad.

I agree with you, then.

I misread that. I do nt know what "regularly" means. But shit has to get a "healthy" rating? WTF?

So their rating system will be healthy or adult? that seems kind of silly.

by healthy, they mean a person's mental health. if a mentally unhealthy underage person got his hands on say, Tenjho Tenge, then there's a chance he might be influenced by it and maybe try to imitate what's in the manga.

okay, now that the law has been explained, I'm not as upset as before. now if it had also affected people over here in America (myself included of course) then that would have been frustrating.

Reading is tech gentlemen.

God damn is that stupid.

Originally posted by iceman24567
Do we have to drop some more bombs on them just to read One Piece 😬

But yeah, 156 is clearly biased. All acts that may be sexually stimulating and cause criminal behavior are prohibited from Anime and Manga...But is allowed in live action? Is that right.

Manga is more appealing to kids methinks.

don't know why they'd still pass this law if most of the things that kids may try to imitate are absolutely impossible to pull off (like an energy attack such as the kamehameha wave). then again there those other aspects of manga that kids will try to do.

Originally posted by danteiscool
don't know why they'd still pass this law if most of the things that kids may try to imitate are absolutely impossible to pull off (like an energy attack such as the kamehameha wave). then again there those other aspects of manga that kids will try to do.

Impossible, true for now, but such claims need testing to verify that it is truly impossible. Science perfects its understanding of the laws to ever greater degrees of accuracy, as it does every anomaly becomes ever more improbable, at the same time highly advanced science may yield devices where a single word, a bit, or a digit may cause a systemic collapse.

Say The few russian leaders got nihilistic froma single word and decided to end it all?

DOOMSDAY CLO CK COMENTARY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

Not that different from frieza.

Originally posted by Grayson
😎

But yeah, 156 is clearly biased. All acts that may be sexually stimulating and cause criminal behavior are prohibited from Anime and Manga...But is allowed in live action? Is that right.

As usual, the law targets only anime, manga and games, completely ignoring films and novels (it should be noted Tokyo’s governor Ishihara, a key proponent of the ban, has written a number of novels featuring scenes of graphic rape).

The law would thus classify a manga depiction of the Japanese literary classic “The Tale of Genji” (which features a young girl being kidnapped and reared as a sex slave, ultimately being raped) as obscene literature, whilst leaving an identical version of the same story conveyed in its original novel format or as a film alone completely.

I'm not sure how many of you looked beyond the first link to the original article.

It is very difficult to objectively assess the scope of the law – along with vague and subjective terms like “interfere with the healthy development of youth,” the law also includes “etc.” on the end of most of its examples, leaving it quite unclear, for example, whether the “improper glorification of illegal sexual activity, etc.” applies to only virtual sex crimes, or all crimes in general – presumably the interpretation adopted will be whichever is convenient to censors.

Assault, being a crime would throw any fighting under the bus as well.

Of note is the line:

"presumably most will then be cancelled due to a lack of suitable magazine or tankobon distribution channels"

Something cancled in japan doesn't have much hope of being imported over here.

http://dankanemitsu.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/something-people-overseas-can-do-fight-misconceptions-about-bill-156-and-japan/

Seems as if the jack thompson's over there were successful.

The industry DOES regulate itself.

And though this link is on the page I just linked to. some people might not see it:

the full scope of the bill:
http://dankanemitsu.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/bill-156s-total-scope/