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encrypted12345
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Pretty much, as with various other European countries. They are overwhelmingly left, and these days, moral panic seems to come from extreme leftists rather than crazy right wing Christians. Also, lol at the BBC article picking a picture with big boobs. Conflating ephebophilia with pedophilia is a bad idea since some modern Western countries do allow marriages at 16, not to mention that it was probably normal worldwide a few thousand years ago. At least Australia only saw flat chests as problematic, as stupid as that still is. |
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Broly The Saiyan
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i personally dont see a problem with the comics after all they are just fictional characters nothing more
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DmonHiro
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I'm afraid you are suffering from a severe case of "common sense". If you don't get help soon, you're going to start having more and more intelligent thoughts, and you won't be able to accept the moral bullshit of the ignorant masses. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Maybe this is all deflection to take heat off Britain's inability to protect their own children from rape in the physical world.
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Mr. Oshawott
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Thank goodness I never opened up BBC's article concerning this issue of risque material involving child characters.
Personally, I wouldn't see myself wanting to own any risque material; however, that doesn't mean that I have a problem with people producing it. As long as no actual people are being harmed in any way, it isn't worth the time throwing a fit over a drawing, even if the character within it happens to look under-aged. |
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Broly The Saiyan
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Yeah it seems people now a days think fictional characters are actual people its like they cant tell the difference from reality and fiction hopefully japan doesnt ban those manga and anime stuff after all no one is harmed in it |
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taster of pork
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The BBC isn't known for its balanced reporting and from what I've seen, most western media tend to focus more on hentai when they talk about anime.
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Fedora-san
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I see. I guess I just kind of feel similar to Hameyadea then. That kind of sexualization of underage people is everywhere. So much unregulated stuff like on YouTube and even some on American media, it's just Japan found a way to monetize it. In that regard I guess I just find it a bit hard to fault those idol videos since they're just capitalizing on a niche market which Japan is pretty good at already. If it's going to exist, at least it's being regulated, rather than being random home videos on YouTube without a filter and all those pervy comments on them with no wall between the subject and the audience. I guess the main concern is as of right now it's perfectly legal, and the only way to make it not legal is to invoke obscenity laws on it. But once you do that, it opens up a window to censor and change other things based on laws relying on an individual's personal discretion of "I'll know it when I see it". It might lead to censorship in other areas as well. |
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mdo7
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As much as I'm not into lolicon (note: I haven't listen to the BBC report and I'm not into lolicon manga or anime), but yeah I understand it maybe a bit bias, but then again which western news media doesn't have any bias or open-mindedness when it comes to anime and manga. But I will agree Junior idols are a bit borderline creepy after seeing this.
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Hoppy800
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I seen that and it makes you want to call the cps on the parents, parents should not let their daughters become an idol at that young of an age since only old men go to those events. I also have an idea, instead of banning junior idols outright, they could sanitize it and switch the marketing to children. |
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Greboruri
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Come on down Dr. Milton Diamond;
End of story (unless you have compelling peer reviewed evidence), move on. |
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Drac
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"BBC Radio Explores Pedophile Scandal Within The BBC" would never be accepted so a report on fake child porn from Japan it is then. Vice also explored "Hentai" and the lack of tentacle porn recently too. Anime and Manga will always be brought up in these contexts because these news outlets know people can't get enough of stupid tired memes.
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Broly The Saiyan
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I dont think japan will ban fictional characters since thats where a lot of their money comes from and if they did i hope they atleast allow the regular hentai to be safe
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krelyan
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I dunno. Are you going to the beach to ogle children? If so, then yes, there probably isn't a difference. Is that a honest question? 
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wertwow
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So after reading and listening to the article, I am not as annoyed I'd thought I would be. I think it is for the most part balanced (or at least as balanced as this sort of article could be), I am thankful they speak to a good range of people on the topic, and cover most of the arguments, all be it briefly, for both sides. I am also glad to see that it has taken into account Japans wider problem with child pornography (with idols etc).
However while certainly the show points out that manga is far more than just sex and child porn, the causal listener, who knows nothing of either Manga or Anime, would come away thinking the majority of Manga is just that. This article/radio piece is just one in a long line of articles on this topic by the BBC (there was an hour long show a few months ago which had a long piece on love plus). I find it annoying that the BBC seemingly refuses to produce any positive article or programme on the subject(anime/manga).Although I don't disagree that this sort of debate is one we should be having, it still shouldn't be the one that introduces the medium to people. Hopefully in the run up to 2020 we'll have some more positive articles surrounding anime/manga in the mainstream media. Although I am sure we will also get a lot more like this one. Last edited by wertwow on Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:27 am; edited 2 times in total |
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