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NEWS: Russian Parents' Group Appeals to Putin to Ban Death Note Manga

UNICEF and The New York Times reports that Russia has the third highest rate — 22 per 100,000 — of teenage suicide after Belarus and Kazakhstan.

The Voice of Russia posted an article that discussed a possible link between anime and a recent wave of suicides among young people in Russia. In the ten days prior to the original article's posting, six junior high school students committed suicide in Russia. The article noted that most of them had a strong interest in Japanese anime while they came from good families and received good grades.

Alll wrote:

in first place the main audience for that manga is teenagers, not children,

It ran in shounen jump, so yeah, it was for children.

TitanXL wrote:

Alll wrote: in first place the main audience for that manga is teenagers, not children, It ran in shounen jump, so yeah, it was for children.

Shonen is for preteens and teenagers, 13 to 18 years! If you think people with 13-18 year are children than what are people with 7-12? You have to note that in Japanese kids/children is described by the word "Kodomo"(7-12 years) and there are a lot of this magazines with works like Doraemon, Shin chan, Inazuma 11, Pokemon and more; Teenagers is described by the word "Shonen/Shojo"(13-18) with magazines like Shonen Jump and Shonen Magazine; and Young adult is described by the word "Seinen/Josei"(19-25) with magazines like Young Anime(Berserk and Futari Ecchi), Weekly Morning(Vagabond) and Weekly Young Jump(Real).

TitanXL wrote:

Alll wrote: in first place the main audience for that manga is teenagers, not children, It ran in shounen jump, so yeah, it was for children.

A, Death Note is on the older end of the Shonen spectrum, and B, the Shonen demographic is 10 and up.

There's a separate demographic under Shonen.

TitanXL wrote:

Alll wrote: in first place the main audience for that manga is teenagers, not children, It ran in shounen jump, so yeah, it was for children.

Shonen is for preteens and teenagers, 13 to 18 years! If you think people with 13-18 year are children than what are people with 7-12? You have to note that in Japanese kids/children is described by the word "Kodomo"(7-12 years) and there are a lot of this magazines with works like Doraemon, Shin chan, Inazuma 11, Pokemon and more; Teenagers is described by the word "Shonen/Shojo"(13-18) with magazines like Shonen Jump and Shonen Magazine; and Young adult is described by the word "Seinen/Josei"(19-25) with magazines like Young Anime(Berserk and Futari Ecchi), Weekly Morning(Vagabond) and Weekly Young Jump(Real).

A character in Naruto Shippuden died and the boy committed suicide? What the hell? Manga are just for entertainment, you can be sad for it, you can be happy for it, you can be depressed for it, but you shouldn't die for it!!

bigivel wrote:

TitanXL wrote: Alll wrote: in first place the main audience for that manga is teenagers, not children, It ran in shounen jump, so yeah, it was for children. Shonen is for preteens and teenagers, 13 to 18 years! If you think people with 13-18 year are children than what are people with 7-12? You have to note that in Japanese kids/children is described by the word "Kodomo"(7-12 years) and there are a lot of this magazines with works like Doraemon, Shin chan, Inazuma 11, Pokemon and more; Teenagers is described by the word "Shonen/Shojo"(13-18) with magazines like Shonen Jump and Shonen Magazine; and Young adult is described by the word "Seinen/Josei"(19-25) with magazines like Young Anime(Berserk and Futari Ecchi), Weekly Morning(Vagabond) and Weekly Young Jump(Real).

Shin-chan is seinen actually. ^^

Pokenatic wrote:

TitanXL wrote: Alll wrote: in first place the main audience for that manga is teenagers, not children, It ran in shounen jump, so yeah, it was for children. A, Death Note is on the older end of the Shonen spectrum, and B, the Shonen demographic is 10 and up. There's a separate demographic under Shonen.

bigivel wrote:

TitanXL wrote: Alll wrote: in first place the main audience for that manga is teenagers, not children, It ran in shounen jump, so yeah, it was for children. Shonen is for preteens and teenagers, 13 to 18 years! If you think people with 13-18 year are children than what are people with 7-12? You have to note that in Japanese kids/children is described by the word "Kodomo"(7-12 years) and there are a lot of this magazines with works like Doraemon, Shin chan, Inazuma 11, Pokemon and more; Teenagers is described by the word "Shonen/Shojo"(13-18) with magazines like Shonen Jump and Shonen Magazine; and Young adult is described by the word "Seinen/Josei"(19-25) with magazines like Young Anime(Berserk and Futari Ecchi), Weekly Morning(Vagabond) and Weekly Young Jump(Real).

Am I just chopped meat in the corner or something?

Pokenatic wrote:

Anyways, is there even a single instance of suicide in Death Note that was not caused by the Death Note?

spoiler[Misa.] Hinted at in the anime, but it wasn't featured in the manga series.