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NEWS: Japan Cartoonists Association, Others Oppose New Child Pornography Revision Bill

Most anime I come across these days is based around high-school kids though so it might be difficult to write around that.

Can we at least all agree that loli-cons are ruining it for everyone?

oh good god, this is sopa but in japan

So why the success of Naruto or DBZ? How do we relate as super humans and ninjas?

Interesting how so many people on here would like to have more mature characters in animes.

Personally, I think that alot of the emotion and depth that comes through in an anime comes out DUE to and not despite of the fact the characters are children.

As a society we view children as pure, uncorrupted by social influences and idealistic, and a lot of animes explore these themes The fact that a 13-14 year old child experiences great tragedy and responds/evolves as a person gives the story much greater impact and, to me at least, makes me wonder what have we become as adults and did we ever think such idealistic thoughts?. (Plus, the high school romance stories, though I tend to avoid them, would probably not be the same when the characters are half way through university

On the concept of animated pornographic material, I'm abit conflicted....personally I find the stuff abhorrent. However, objectively they are still fictional and on paper. And I do believe that we as a society are harsh, and rightly so, on criminal acts against children (or anyone). But we do not prosecute on someone's personal thoughts (which, a person watching a pornographic image of a cartoon is doing i.e. thinking). We prosecute only on reasonable cause that a person will commit a crime in person.

Well everyone has their opinions. I personally believe that the average Anime high-schooler you see in those romances are much more mature than the "grown-ups" we see in most of our cartoons. But then again, most cartoons are aimed at kids, which is something I would definitely not want to see in Japan considering they already have shows aimed at kids.

Seriously, censorship is censorship and nobody should be the thought police. No matter how much some of us disagree with something, it shouldn't be regulated if isn't hurting no-one in the first place. In this case, illustrated sexual innuendo or nudity ain't hurting anyone because there aren't any actual victims nor is it "decreasing" the "quality" of Anime/Manga/Video Games as some of you skeptics claim.

Quality Anime releases have been coming out and have been consistent for over these years and personally, I don't see the "decrease" in Anime/Manga. The medium has just diversified more thanks to a growing audience. There's a little for everyone and well we'll leave it at that.

You guys don't like anything that contains the slightest bit of sexual innuendo and/or nudity in an Anime/Manga. That's fine, we all have different tastes but again, if you don't like something, do what I do: Don't watch it. Its really simple as that. All you have to do is not watch and/or read it. That's it.

If I don't like what I hear on the radio, I'll just change it to the next station. If I don't like a video I'm watching on Youtube, I'll just go to the next one. But that's it. I'm not going to advocate to "regulate" radio stations because of "profanity" neither am I going to be the "moral police" on Youtube because of some "stupid" content.

People are entitled to their own desires and should be free to do whatever they want in their leisure time so long as they don't hurt anyone in the first place.

Hopefully this bill will get revised to only regulate real CP because well, Japan needs to really regulate that.

Thank you very much for your sensible and logical argument. This is precisely what I would have said.

Unfortunately, many conservatives in society are not able to live knowing that other people are enjoying things that they themselves find objectionable. Neither can they stand having things not go the way that they want to. Of course, this is regardless of the fact that these activities are completely harmless and in no way affect them or anyone else. Worst of all, many of them see it fit to enforce and impose their moral beliefs and values on others.

As a society we view children as pure, uncorrupted by social influences and idealistic, and a lot of animes explore these themes The fact that a 13-14 year old child experiences great tragedy and responds/evolves as a person gives the story much greater impact and, to me at least, makes me wonder what have we become as adults and did we ever think such idealistic thoughts?.

A lot of the series that would be affected are ones for kids: Doraemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragonball, Naruto, One Piece, Evangelion, etc. That's the thing, it's so common in Japanese media that pretty much 95% of anime would be illegal or banned if they felt like enforcing it. It affects more than just "Strike Witches" type shows which angelmcazares mentioned, it affects the very foundation of anime and most day-time TV series. Gundam included.

I agree with a law that aims at eliminating child pornography in fiction...

I am not trying to be a moralist...