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Cecilthedarkknight_234
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I really don't want to start a flame war but flat-chest/=/loli. I will not dive any deeper because this can spiral out of control, however yabuki's artwork on his characters is very different.. |
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dandelion_rose
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Have to admit this job does sound kind of appealing. Read manga all day. Ban those I don't like. Get cred from parents. If I were a Tokyo civil servant I'd sign up.
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th3dudee
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parents these days... my dad let me watch what i want ''watching girls is healthy!'' manga isn't just something.. it's f*cking ART!
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Jarm
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I have the feeling that the council just doesn't want to stir the hornet's nest. If they were to place restrictions on it, it would only increase tension between the Tokyo government and the otaku. Since right now the country has bigger problems then enforcing some stupid law.
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TitanXL
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It's a kids comic in Japan, so 15 is way too old to restrict it. |
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
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Right now Governor Ishihara is screaming, "You bumbling buffoons, this isn't what I wanted!"
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superdry
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Some titles have been restricted already (not sure if by the mandate or voluntarily by publisher or both). But, yea, I wouldn't be surprised if the council is treading with light feet on this issue when they have to review something. |
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Jarm
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Most of which were not on most people's radar. However To-Love-ru has a sizable fanbase- so double standard?? I heard somewhere this thing was meant to satisfy some religious lobby but because of so much opposition they are threading lightly. The worst case that could happen is some nut takes over and uses the law to actually try and scrub manga clean- making it still dangerous. |
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Mohawk52
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VORTIA
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Bingo. If they come out swinging with the jackboots, it'll only bring down City Hall.
Exactly. Low circulation manga can be safely banned - their fanbases are irrelevent relative to the population, and you can get political cred with arch-conservatives for attempting to clean up "smut". Large circulation publications bring a lot of money to publishers and are popular with a big enough number of people that banning them is probably political suicide. This new health law remains vile, but its unsurprising with the large amount of opposition it faced that it's being used to single out and punish small time mangaka rather than institute sweeping changes. Japanese politics 101, I suppose. It's just like how instead of enacting legislation that actually tackles the roots of internet piracy, they'd rather just pick some poor slob from Sendai at random out of several thousand illegal uploaders to throw the book at and lock away for seven years. Last edited by VORTIA on Sat Jun 02, 2012 2:31 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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ConanSan
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Are they even trying? I Mean for goodness sakes, people, whilst I'm as anti censorship as anyone else, To Love Ru Darkness is full of stuff I wouldn't show to a kid!
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Chagen46
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And this is why hiding your porno is a good idea.
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configspace
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Just to remind people. It's NOT the nudity people are assuming that the bill is concerned about, it's the subject matter
Again, if it portrays something like a casual acceptance of incest, or actual sexual relationships between high school students, THEN it gets the ban hammer (yes the effect is nearly the same since it's removed then must be republished differently which most publishers have not done, e.g. Aki Sora and a few others) Recall that Oku-sama wa Shōgakusei, non-graphic, non-explicit gag manga got affected |
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Juno016
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The lobbying excuse holds up enough that there is a ton of evidence, but no public proof for it. I'd be willing to say that it's a part of what happened and why some of the people changed their minds and supported the bill when the opposed it at first. Especially in the DPJ. But I feel like a lot of people still have the wrong idea about the bill. Its effects are strong, but it does not completely ban anything. It just puts anything they deem inappropriate to sell to minors into the adult section. It's harmful in that it can literally ruin the sales of just about anything not already targeted towards those who can buy adult merchandise... and socially, it can ruin a series, publisher's, or author's reputation in the public... but the series that were discontinued typically discontinued themselves out of fear. Blacklists at convenience stores and such. It's similar, but not the same thing. Just saying it for the technicality since I've been talking to some friends about this and they've gotten the completely wrong idea about what it does.
I think that's what happened. The publishers or someone had it ended, but for some reason, they brought it back as "Darkness." This is just my own inference, but considering the circumstances at the time, the original was ended very suddenly when everyone was freaking out about the bill. Once opposition was formed, and probably when sales of the magazine dropped significantly, they decided to bring it back just as suddenly. Thus, came "To Love Ru Darkness." It would make sense, considering how the magazine is run. |
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GVman
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To Love-ru ended suddenly because of Kentaro Yabuki's divorce problems, which involved him obtaining complete custody of his daughter (and thus needing the time to take care of her) as well as some legal issues with his wife trying to claim ownership of one of the characters, I believe.
As for the content being amped up in Darkness, it's published in Jump Square, which is targeted at a slightly older age group than Weekly Shounen Jump. |
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