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INTEREST: Magical Girl Site Likely Target in Latest BPO Published Complaint


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TarsTarkas



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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2018 9:15 pm Reply with quote
CatSword wrote:
As trashy as Magical Girl Site is, aren't all those characters clearly villains/bad people? How would those scenes encourage or reinforce bullying/criminal acts?


Just like the United States, it is not enough to simply complain about a show, they must morally justify their complaint. If it 'appears' that morality and social conscience is on their side, then their actions are not censorship and 'book burning', but rather 'protecting society against evil.'
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Yune Amagiri



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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2018 9:45 pm Reply with quote
Remember this animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2017-05-16/bpo-publishes-viewer-complaint-about-anime-with-sexually-extreme-content/.116149

"Regarding a late-night anime program, there was extremely obscene content. Because it's an anime work, there is a possibility that children may mistakenly watch it."

By the way we could also say " My childrens like watching Drama so they might watch a porn at 2am by mistake Idea " that's pretty much BPO's logic, no wonder they are so much hated by anime fans seeing how much complain they do EVERY SEASON.
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Mertal



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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2018 10:59 pm Reply with quote
I'm really not in favor of censorship, but for me there are exceptions, and this anime qualifies in spades. If it gets pulled, I will not cry in the least.
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 12:09 am Reply with quote
Violence against middle school students? I'm pretty convinced that can easily describe most of the anime out there.
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MsVitchDa2nd



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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 1:19 am Reply with quote
Lol really. Whenever a bullying scene happened it made me despise bullies even more.
Looks like another self-proclaimed righteous group wanna play hero again
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Mertal



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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 1:31 am Reply with quote
DTJB wrote:
Violence against middle school students? I'm pretty convinced that can easily describe most of the anime out there.


Violence, like any descriptive word, is subjective and varies to a extreme. Some people (not me) consider just flicking a persons forehead to get their attention as violence. Then there is Magical Girl Site, which pretty much defines the opposite side of the scale.

In my opinion, the Magical Girl genre should be restricted to its original purpose, to entertain and inspire kids.

When it's being twisted to the point of torture and rape porn with children as its target, then I feel they are crossing a definitive line and needs to be dealt with.
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 1:55 am Reply with quote
Mertal wrote:
DTJB wrote:
Violence against middle school students? I'm pretty convinced that can easily describe most of the anime out there.


Violence, like any descriptive word, is subjective and varies to a extreme. Some people (not me) consider just flicking a persons forehead to get their attention as violence. Then there is Magical Girl Site, which pretty much defines the opposite side of the scale.

In my opinion, the Magical Girl genre should be restricted to its original purpose, to entertain and inspire kids.

When it's being twisted to the point of torture and rape porn with children as its target, then I feel they are crossing a definitive line and needs to be dealt with.
And my opinion is all magical girl stories should end in yuri. Actually now that I think about it all shows should end in yuri.
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Mertal



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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 2:06 am Reply with quote
Random Name wrote:
Mertal wrote:
DTJB wrote:
Violence against middle school students? I'm pretty convinced that can easily describe most of the anime out there.


Violence, like any descriptive word, is subjective and varies to a extreme. Some people (not me) consider just flicking a persons forehead to get their attention as violence. Then there is Magical Girl Site, which pretty much defines the opposite side of the scale.

In my opinion, the Magical Girl genre should be restricted to its original purpose, to entertain and inspire kids.

When it's being twisted to the point of torture and rape porn with children as its target, then I feel they are crossing a definitive line and needs to be dealt with.
And my opinion is all magical girl stories should end in yuri. Actually now that I think about it all shows should end in yuri.


I actually agree with your opinion. More Yuri is good.

But I still cannot and willnot stand any depicted hyper-violence against children in any way shape or form. You would think in a country with declining birthrates that children would become even more precious, for they are their future. This really baffles me.
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Nordhmmer



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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 6:14 am Reply with quote
Magical Girl site- A Battle Royal,Gantz and Magical Girl Raising Project combo.

Reading the manga reminded me a bit of those three.
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Rederoin



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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 7:40 am Reply with quote
Nordhmmer wrote:
Magical Girl site- A Battle Royal,Gantz and Magical Girl Raising Project combo.

Reading the manga reminded me a bit of those three.


With some yuri mixed in.


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In my opinion, the Magical Girl genre should be restricted to its original purpose, to entertain and inspire kids.

That is not how art/literature/entertainment works, why should freedom of expression be restricted? Manga/anime is not just for kids to enjoy.
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 12:56 pm Reply with quote
Did a bunch of cleaning up of trollish or off topic posts (and responses to them that are pointless with the quoted post removed) derailing this thread. We're going to drop the yuri/homosexuality debate right now thank you. It is entirely off topic and not the place for that discussion.

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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 1:00 pm Reply with quote
Mertal wrote:
I'm really not in favor of censorship, but for me there are exceptions, and this anime qualifies in spades. If it gets pulled, I will not cry in the least.
I get that the first episode of Magical Girl Site was horrible in terms of what happened to Aya but when people argue that censorship is needed I do wonder where they think that will go. I also wonder who they think deserves to make that decision since plenty of people would be happy to do that though they have vastly different goals. To put it simply the only type of speech that ever needs to be defended is offensive speech since even the North Korean government doesn't care if people talk about the weather.

Mertal wrote:
In my opinion, the Magical Girl genre should be restricted to its original purpose, to entertain and inspire kids.
Magical Girl Site isn't airing right after PreCure on Sunday morning. It airs in the middle of the night and is marketed specifically at adults. I don't agree with the idea that the possibility of kids watching a show can be used to promote the censorship of anime that is made for adults. Sadly a growing number of people agree with that idea.
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Chiibi



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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 1:21 pm Reply with quote
I hate this series so any negative reaction to it brings me comfort. >_>

And yeah, teens getting in violent situations is a norm for anime....but this thing takes it too far. Just way too far to uncomfortable levels of squick.
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Mertal



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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 2:50 pm Reply with quote
Quote:

In my opinion, the Magical Girl genre should be restricted to its original purpose, to entertain and inspire kids.

That is not how art/literature/entertainment works, why should freedom of expression be restricted? Manga/anime is not just for kids to enjoy.


So, by this question I infer that you think that freedom of expression should have no limits or restrictions?

So would you think its OK for some guys to drag out a child into the streets and start whipping her to death, and let them get away with it because there were "adults" and it was their form of "art" and they were practicing their "freedom of expression"?

Seriously?
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2018 4:03 pm Reply with quote
Chiibi wrote:
I hate this series so any negative reaction to it brings me comfort. >_>


This I think is a lot more troubling. There are a lot of things I dislike (inside and outside anime), but I think going into public forums to tell the people that is utterly a waste of time, because unlike the guy in a public transportation unit with his music playing out loud, we can simply choose not to watch the series we do not like and let it end there.

For the record, I watched the first episode of Magical Girl Site and found no reason to continue watching.
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