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egoist
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Simple answer to that. The law will stop you from killing someone else, and your parents/school are there to teach kids that killing is bad. As for the sex, well their parents will never know, besides sex is a natural thing and naked manga characters won't hurt. Inhaling helium ain't illegal and is viable for kids, besides kids would hardly know that helium could actually kill, or even do any harm. Even though their targets are towards young adult males, Shonen Jump attracts a lot of kids. Got it? |
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Mistypearl
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All snarky and joking comments aside, breathing in Helium really isn't something you should do, as it damages your vocal chords among other things. Also kids are more likely to try this than use their chakra to blow up their ninja village (though I could as well be wrong .-.)
I think it was a smart move to apologize, I'm assuming there was alot of negative feedback for the mangaka to do this or they regretted it afterwards. |
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edzieba
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While inserting a pressurised gas source into any orifice is a bad idea, it is unlikely you could hold your mouth over the regulator with enough force to produce a seal good enough to allow a dangerous degree of pressurisation in your lungs. The actual danger is that your lungs will be filled with a PURE gas, rather than the gas/air mix that you'd get from a balloon. This can quite effectively suffocate you, and it's unlikely you'll be aware of it (your lungs will still be full of gas, so your suffocation reflexes will not kick in). Helium isn't too dangerous, as it is lighter than air so should raise out of your lungs in a few seconds of deep breathing (though if you've just inhaled it deliberately, you're likely to try and hold your breath for as long as possible,which is where the danger lies). Trying the trick with denser gases, however, can be very dangerous, as they will sink into your lungs and stay there. |
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Pedestrian A
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I call publicity stunt.
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Dargonxtc
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Dang, one more E and that would be the funniest title ever.
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dewlwieldthedarpachief
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I think there is a layer of underlying issues here that are a lot more than simply misinforming adorable sweet children about the realities of helium through the medium of foreign illustrated adventures. Something is wrong with just about anyone who doesn't have the wherewithal to distinguish truth from fiction, child or adult. If it's a legitimate concern that significant numbers of minors will harm themselves in this way the responsible thing to do is to fix the children and not the manga. That's comparable to saying we should put special warnings on loose leaf for hemophiliacs so they don't get paper cuts.
Any press is good press. |
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Ashen Phoenix
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Indeed. When I first saw this article's header my initial assumption was that the apology came in response to a scene depicting - in whatever context - some form of drug or substance use by minors, but to know it's simply a case of something we in America have made jokes of for a long time seems awfully strange to me, given, as you so rightfully pointed out, all the OTHER potentially objectionable and harmful-if-tried-in-real-life elements of SJ's titles. 
This is like that Superman incident all over again, in some ways. |
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Ktimene's Lover
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Like it has been said, all this other stuff happens and they are apologizing for this and not the other stufff also?
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sepherest
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This was a rather dissapointing reason for an apology.
It's not like all kids have canisters of high-pressurized helium lying around in their homes to inhale. I'm surprised that something like this would get attention, rather than other crude or violent scenes in SJ. |
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Mohawk52
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mow123
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Personally, I think it's a good move even if it's a bit conservative. Kids really shouldn't be think that inhaling helium is a joke, especially when it's a lot more common than the other things posters have referenced, like cannon balls to the stomach. Anime is escapism, so melodrama filled Death Note is a-ok, and I think most kids know that killing is wrong. However, based on some of the posts here, some people think this isn't a big deal and it's safe and an okay thing to use inhaling as a joke. Huffing helium just doesn't seem to cut it on the same level of escapism.
This thread also reminds me of Bill Clinton, which is also a good thing. |
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Ktimene's Lover
Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
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Shueisha has been having a lack of maintaining priorities it seems.
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