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NEWS: Canada Outlines Which Anime Can Cross Border

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Exceptions exist for cases where the work serves a "legitimate purpose related to the administration of justice or to science, medicine, education or art; and does not pose an undue risk of harm to persons under the age of eighteen years."

This. Thank goodness for this! This clause alone protects most anything of true merit and utility. If this is applied fairly, very little would actually be outright illegal. It also forces officials to deal with things case by case rather than applying broad censorship. That this kind of provision has been lacking in recent Japanese legislation is my primary problem with them.

And as for "secondary sexual features," I'd guess they're mostly talking about breasts and pubic hair. If a female character is flat as a board and hasn't got a lick of hair on here, you don't get to pretend that she's 18.

dewlwieldthedarpachief wrote:

But violation of cartoon children that is non-sexual is still cool, right?

Violation as in meaning abuse? No, it's not, any kind of abuse is not OK.

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Exceptions exist for cases where the work serves a "legitimate purpose related to the administration of justice or to science, medicine, education or art; and does not pose an undue risk of harm to persons under the age of eighteen years."

This. Thank goodness for this! This clause alone protects most anything of true merit and utility. If this is applied fairly, very little would actually be outright illegal. It also forces officials to deal with things case by case rather than applying broad censorship. That this kind of provision has been lacking in recent Japanese legislation is my primary problem with them.

And as for "secondary sexual features," I'd guess they're mostly talking about breasts and pubic hair. If a female character is flat as a board and hasn't got a lick of hair on here, you don't get to pretend that she's 18.

But violation of cartoon children that is non-sexual is still cool, right?

Violation as in meaning abuse? No, it's not, any kind of abuse is not OK.

If you want to make anime that graphically features a child having their skull bashed in, nails pulled out, etc... that's completely legal. I think.

If you want to make anime that graphically features a child having their skull bashed in, nails pulled out, etc... that's completely legal. I think.

(Higurashi).

tempest wrote:

If you want to make anime that graphically features a child having their skull bashed in, nails pulled out, etc... that's completely legal. I think.

Sven Viking wrote:

(Higurashi).

Exactly.

dewlwieldthedarpachief wrote:

But violation of cartoon children that is non-sexual is still cool, right?

Dakaran wrote:

Violation as in meaning abuse? No, it's not, any kind of abuse is not OK.

AFAIK, there are no laws against the fictional depiction of child abuse. The only thing that is illegal is child porn.

If you want to make anime that graphically features a child having their skull bashed in, nails pulled out, etc... that's completely legal. I think.

-t

so what qualifies as child pornography, would something like elfen lied be in trouble for that scene were a girls step father molests her? (Cause that would be the reason someon would bane elfen lied) or in Evangelion were Asuka is begging Kaji to look at her as she's pulling her shirt down? or is it just the realy realy sicko stuff?

Before you take something like the Handley obscenity case and immediately assume that there's some blanket ban on loli/violent anime in America, I suggest you take a close look at what's being done in Canada as a reminder of what it's really like to have loli/violent anime truly banned by law.

"Japanese Anime — most not porn."