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NEWS: NEWS: 10 Manga Publishers to Boycott Tokyo Anime Fair

...or artists could just stop drawing rape, etc.......Wow no rape....huh? Where would anime/ manga be without rape? Better maybe!

To finger point at the US is wrong. But I wouldn't be surprised if certain backlash over rapeplay isn't involved in this.

Onizuka666, how the @#$@#(! did you manage to turn this news against the American government? You do realize that the American government has absolutely nothing to do with this piece of news, right? This is an internal matter for Japan. It's happening because the Tokyo Government is trying to censor its own media (well, more than USUAL). Believe it or not, most Japanese people don't really care about the US at all (I live in Japan, so I feel like I can say that).

Anyway, kudos to Kadokawa for starting this, and also for the 9 companies that jumped on board. As far as I can tell, the only major publisher NOT boycotting this so far is Gangan (run by Square-Enix). I wonder how long it will take them to get on board?

Er, I think you've had enough of the cool-Aid. How can you believe the US has something to do with this when our own standards aren't even as strict as the sanitation that Tokyo is said to be aiming for. This whole thing came about because Tokyo is run by bigots, nothing more.

Elisian wrote:

...or artists could just stop drawing rape, etc.......Wow no rape....huh? Where would anime/ manga be without rape? Better maybe!

don't be a tool

Onizuka666, how the @#$@#(! did you manage to turn this news against the American government? You do realize that the American government has absolutely nothing to do with this piece of news, right? This is an internal matter for Japan. It's happening because the Tokyo Government is trying to censor its own media (well, more than USUAL). Believe it or not, most Japanese people don't really care about the US at all (I live in Japan, so I feel like I can say that).

Anyway, kudos to Kadokawa for starting this, and also for the 9 companies that jumped on board. As far as I can tell, the only major publisher NOT boycotting this so far is Gangan (run by Square-Enix). I wonder how long it will take them to get on board?

Its clear this is another clandestine U.S push to oppress japanese works once again.

Of course it could also work in their favor (the obvious aim of the boycott) since the bill is causing so much grief and people may decide the companies know best since nothing the bill claims about the questionable material causing deviant, suicidal, or violent thoughts or behaviors in youths has been proven to be true. Instead of wasting tax payer's money on this bill they should be studying whether or not their claims are even possible. So far studies in the US have yet to prove sufficiently that violent entertainment can cause violent behavior in children. Some children are just violent, some peak sexually earlier than others, some question their gender while still in elementary school without being pre exposed to any of this stuff. That's just the way people are, we're all different, no amount of government intervention will change that.
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Or they could just have votes to pass the bill in and this is seen as a last ditch effort to get some swing votes which fails. TAF has nothing to do with the bill. Boycotting only affects the community and any worker in the industry whose paycheck depended on that event. That would be like saying any Tokyo government sponsored event would be boycotted. I bet the TAF has enjoyed support from the government for years.

I have high expectations that this fair will provide the perfect setting for interaction between exhibitors and all those concerned with the anime industry. Also, I am sure that this fair will allow visitors to experience the attractions and dynamism of Japanese anime, beloved and acclaimed by people all over the world.

-- Chairman, Shintaro Ishihara (Governor of Tokyo)

configspace wrote:

Elisian wrote: ...or artists could just stop drawing rape, etc.......Wow no rape....huh? Where would anime/ manga be without rape? Better maybe! don't be a tool

I mean tentacles would be out of a job...Crap!

One of the frustrating things that opponents of the revision bill keep facing is that advocates of the bill keep talking about going after “hard core” material, when the bill is not about that if you read the details.

He also has it in for homosexuals: http://mainichi.jp/select/wadai/news/20101208k0000m040122000c.html

The funny is part is this probably the LEAST offensive thing Ishihara has done (denied Nanking, called the Chinese animals...). How this man keeps getting re-elected is beyond me. with all those big names backing out, this will be a disaster of epic proportions.

hikaru004 wrote:

Or they could just have votes to pass the bill in and this is seen as a last ditch effort to get some swing votes which fails. TAF has nothing to do with the bill. Boycotting only affects the community and any worker in the industry whose paycheck depended on that event. That would be like saying any Tokyo government sponsored event would be boycotted. I bet the TAF has enjoyed support from the government for years.

I'm a bit tired of constantly telling you that TAF is not something like Anime Expo or Otakon. Furthermore, you kept saying "TAF has nothing to do with the bill." Now read this paragraph and think again:

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I have high expectations that this fair will provide the perfect setting for interaction between exhibitors and all those concerned with the anime industry. Also, I am sure that this fair will allow visitors to experience the attractions and dynamism of Japanese anime, beloved and acclaimed by people all over the world. -- Chairman, Shintaro Ishihara (Governor of Tokyo)