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NEWS: Tokyo's Revised Youth Ordinance Amendment Bill Posted

The government will be directly involved in deciding what is allowed and what isn't allowed.

"Any material that may be detrimental toward the healthy development of youth because of their capacity to be sexually stimulating, encourages cruelty, and/or may compel suicide or criminal behavior."

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5) Marriage between an adopted child or adopted child’s spouse with his or her adopting parents, their immediate siblings, their blood relatives, etc. (An adopted son’s divorced wife and the father of one of the adopting parents, etc.) This holds true even after divorce or if the adoption is nullified.

If I'm reading this correctly, marriage between adopted siblings is not an option.

I just realized that this means Oreimo is going to die by the hand of Big Brother~ Sorry, Kiririn...and your eroge will cease to exist, too. *braces for tsuntsun pillow slam*

matrixdude wrote:

The government will be directly involved in deciding what is allowed and what isn't allowed.

They already are. The below content can already be regulated.

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"Any material that may be detrimental toward the healthy development of youth because of their capacity to be sexually stimulating, encourages cruelty, and/or may compel suicide or criminal behavior."

People should be complaining about the current law instead of worrying about the pointless little things that are getting tacked on.

Ojamajo LimePie wrote:

Quote: 5) Marriage between an adopted child or adopted child’s spouse with his or her adopting parents, their immediate siblings, their blood relatives, etc. (An adopted son’s divorced wife and the father of one of the adopting parents, etc.) This holds true even after divorce or if the adoption is nullified. If I'm reading this correctly, marriage between adopted siblings is not an option.

The way he worded it wasn't really clear. Here, I dug up the relevant law itself from the internet.

養子若しくはその配偶者又は養子の直系卑属若しくはその配偶者と養親又はその直系尊属との間では、第七百二十九条の規定により親族関係が終了した後でも、婚姻をすることができない

(Adopted child/Adopted child's spouse/Adopted child's lineal descendants/Adopted child's lineal descendant's spouse
-with-
Adopter/Adopter's lineal ancestor)
[above] type of relationship,
stuff about another article not being an exception,
marrying can't happen

Nothing to worry about, chief.

ZipZapZopTitania wrote:

I just realized that this means Oreimo is going to die by the hand of Big Brother~ Sorry, Kiririn...and your eroge will cease to exist, too. *braces for tsuntsun pillow slam*

I never saw any proof that neither of them were adopted. Actually, Saori comments in episode 2 that they don't look alike enough to be siblings. See, look! Plausible deniability is already there.
And all those eroge are either going to be all-ages (no H-scenes) or 18+ (minors already technically can't buy them) She's already got some way to get them even though she's a minor, so this won't affect her at all.


Don't get me wrong. Censorship laws are retarded. I'm just saying this new addition isn't going to affect anything.

It's probably not too classy to quote what amounts to an Internet tabloid, but some thought-provoking commentary:

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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.

What will happen to the anime industry when the bill is passed?