×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Forum - View topic
NEWS: Florida's Brevard School District Bans Sasaki and Miyano Manga for 'Inappropriate' Content


Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4  Next

Note: this is the discussion thread for this article

Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
tinyirnfist0



Joined: 13 Oct 2021
Posts: 37
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 8:11 pm Reply with quote
Their reasons for banning it are not only homophobic but racist as well.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Top Gun



Joined: 28 Sep 2007
Posts: 4762
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 8:44 pm Reply with quote
They...they suggested ****ing Chainsaw Man as an appropriate replacement.

Ahahahahaha, never change Florida.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
FireChick
Subscriber



Joined: 26 Mar 2006
Posts: 2468
Location: United States
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 8:48 pm Reply with quote
Top Gun wrote:
They...they suggested ****ing Chainsaw Man as an appropriate replacement.

Ahahahahaha, never change Florida.


They also suggested Seven Deadly Sins, where the MC literally sexually assaults the main female character in the first chapter and continues to be an unrepentant pervert throughout the series. Do these people even have functioning brain cells?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
RickyTheRat



Joined: 02 Jul 2023
Posts: 28
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 8:48 pm Reply with quote
Quote:
The complainant suggested other manga to replace the series such as Chainsaw Man, To Your Eternity, and The Seven Deadly Sins among others.


I'm not sure how much more appropriate those are for kids in America since I know nothing about Sasaki and Miyano but at least they suggested some nice series. My school never had any manga at all in the library.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Ermat_46



Joined: 14 Apr 2008
Posts: 740
Location: Philippines
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:37 pm Reply with quote
"sexual orientation should not be encouraged, suggested, or implanted"

Pssst. Don't tell them that being heterosexual is also a sexual orientation.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
XSp



Joined: 23 May 2014
Posts: 269
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:53 pm Reply with quote
Theocracy of the low IQ zealots. Amazing
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
MyMasterMatthew



Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Posts: 177
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:55 pm Reply with quote
Quote:
Board Chair Megan Wright objected to the book's content due to its focus on a romantic relationship, as well as the Japanese reading format of reading the book from right-to-left.


In other words, she thinks every manga and every book with characters in a relationship should be banned. This logic is so dumb.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Arale Kurashiki



Joined: 24 Aug 2015
Posts: 768
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:57 pm Reply with quote
FireChick wrote:
They also suggested Seven Deadly Sins, where the MC literally sexually assaults the main female character in the first chapter and continues to be an unrepentant pervert throughout the series. Do these people even have functioning brain cells?

They're thinking perfectly clearly; rape is fine to them as long as it's straight.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Revolutionary



Joined: 27 May 2009
Posts: 607
Location: New England
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 10:03 pm Reply with quote
FireChick wrote:
Top Gun wrote:
They...they suggested ****ing Chainsaw Man as an appropriate replacement.

Ahahahahaha, never change Florida.


They also suggested Seven Deadly Sins, where the MC literally sexually assaults the main female character in the first chapter and continues to be an unrepentant pervert throughout the series. Do these people even have functioning brain cells?


Yes. SDS is so awful about that. I tried watching the anime... I just couldn't keep going. It's so disgusting.

Anyway - If there's one thing I have learned about the Religious Right, it's that they have no problem excusing sexual assault. Their "morality" is twisted into knots. Not even recognizable as morality anymore. SMH. So, somehow this doesn't even surprise me.

*insert Bugs Bunny GIF where he saws off Florida*
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime My Manga
Cardcaptor Takato



Joined: 27 Jan 2018
Posts: 5119
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 10:54 pm Reply with quote
They also suggested Sailor Moon as an alternative which famously definitely doesn't have any queer characters in it.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
dsfjr1190



Joined: 03 Jul 2017
Posts: 44
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 11:43 pm Reply with quote
School districts always pick the weirdest books to get offended over.

They were outraged at series like Harry Potter in my area as a kid, but completely overlooked things like Animorphs and Fear Street which had much more controversial subject matter.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Ermat_46



Joined: 14 Apr 2008
Posts: 740
Location: Philippines
PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 12:06 am Reply with quote
Cardcaptor Takato wrote:
They also suggested Sailor Moon as an alternative which famously definitely doesn't have any queer characters in it.


Right-wing reactionaries pick which work(s) is/are not LGBTQ+ based on vibes alone because they're media illiterate.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Zimmer



Joined: 08 Jul 2015
Posts: 197
PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 12:06 am Reply with quote
Chainsaw Man features a lesbian orgy.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Nev999



Joined: 05 Aug 2021
Posts: 151
PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 12:48 am Reply with quote
Cardcaptor Takato wrote:
They also suggested Sailor Moon as an alternative which famously definitely doesn't have any queer characters in it.


Phantom Thief Jeanne too. Not only does it have lots of attempted rape scenes, more importantly the story actually calls out out the Christian God for casting Eve out of Eden, portraying him as a bitter vindictive jealous guy who was in the wrong, literally saying Eve was the one to eat the apple because "women have more fortitude" and she was totes right to do so... and in the climax the MC has underage premarital sex to prove that purity and religious devotion are in no way related to virginity or not having sex until after marriage. so actually that's a really good one. I think they should DEFINITELY go with that one.


Last edited by Nev999 on Tue Sep 03, 2024 1:18 am; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Cardcaptor Takato



Joined: 27 Jan 2018
Posts: 5119
PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 1:06 am Reply with quote
Ermat_46 wrote:


Right-wing reactionaries pick which work(s) is/are not LGBTQ+ based on vibes alone because they're media illiterate.
I suspect they didn't read any of these manga and they just googled gay manga or something and Sasaki and Miyano was the first thing they found. They probably just saw the title for Chainsaw Man and thought he was some typical Marvel superhero.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4  Next
Page 1 of 4

 


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group