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NEWS: Interspecies Reviewers Anime's Airing on Kobe's Sun TV Canceled

Top Gun wrote:

...so you really think these networks canceled their broadcasts because of the actions of a Sony subsidiary and not because they never read the manga they can acquire at their corner store before giving the ok to the broadcast?

Clarified your post.

This show is probably the funniest of the season and easily the most self aware. Frankly, it's no worse than what Amazon presented in The Boys . spoiler[dude gets blown up by a explosive suppository, but cartoon slime sex is a bridge too far?] . I don't blame Funimation or some of the other outlets, though. It's not their wheelhouse.

Madman Anime Group/AnimeLab: Sony subsidiary.
Wakanim: Sony subsidiary.

Also Funi pulled it after 3 episodes where as Tokyo MX gave it one more week and Sun gave it 3 more weeks, meaning they were still giving it the benefit of the doubt before pulling it. That being said, I wonder how many complaints they received before Funi pulling

Animegunclub wrote:

If I'm prejudice towards a piece of media, there is no moral detriment to my character. I'm simply adhering to what precedence I've experienced with similar works upon one work. Prior experience with similar works can let me know if something is right or wrong for me.

While I agree with your statement here in principal, the italicized part is where your logic is faulty in this particular case. I've seen (and reviewed!) a lot of ecchi anime shows over the years, including most of the titles that would rank among the raciest non-hentai titles that have ever been made, so I can say with confidence that there isn't anything out there in anime that's very similar to IR. It's a genre-bending show, so making assumptions about it based on what people think might be similar titles will lead people astray.

The staff at Passione made no secret what kind of material they were adapting so it getting the axe without any visible public uproar stinks of people higher up giving the order.

+1....The fiancee and I *love* IR and consider ourselves blessed we live in Australia, where we can watch the censored version every Sunday on Animelab and use our imaginations until we grab it another way later...

...While things like human trafficking and sexual slavery are indeed horrible it is absurd to suggest that all incidences of prostitution involve either...

They made no secret what they were adapting, but not how they were adapting it. All accounts from folks familiar with the manga have confirmed the anime has been far, far more explicit than the manga ever was ...

I find it far, far, far more likely that the anime has just ended up stepping over the line for the broadcasters that have removed it.

you're just slinging garbage with this insistence that Funimation/Sony/Whoever must have some personal vendetta against the property and are trying to get it off the air.

Lynx Raven Raide wrote:

Madman Anime Group/AnimeLab: Sony subsidiary. Wakanim: Sony subsidiary.

Not quite, Wakanim from day one has been an Aniplex company, Animelab was recently bought by Aniplex. Meanwhile Funimation bought Manga Entertainment in the UK. This whole IR mess shows that the Funimation/Aniplex merger is far from a done deal.

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Also Funi pulled it after 3 episodes where as Tokyo MX gave it one more week and Sun gave it 3 more weeks, meaning they were still giving it the benefit of the doubt before pulling it. That being said, I wonder how many complaints they received before Funi pulling

If there was some kind of public uproar that made TV broadcaster pull the plug we should have already heard in this website. Historically pulling the plug in broadcast anime in japan is a fluke, not par for de course. Japanese are not the kind of culture where they will do something to "let hell loose" quite the opposite, they will check to see if anything goes against the rules and sound the alarm before broadcast day. When anime is pulled is because a recent event has made it unpalatable some people (like the fukushima earthquake/tsunami) or a case where reality imitates fiction (School Days murder was similar to a recent real life event). When Excel Saga last episode went too far it was removed prior to broadcast.

The staff at Passione made no secret what kind of material they were adapting so it getting the axe without any visible public uproar stinks of people higher up giving the order, I do not see the japanese "giving it x more episodes", their culture is quite trigger happy once any trespassing of the rules is detected.

I wasn't meaning to imply "voluntary(?)" meant sexual slavery but that as another poster pointed out, prostitution isn't usually truly voluntary even if done with free will as it is done out of some level of desperation except in rare cases. "Everyone" knows it causes all sorts of emotional and physical trauma and drastically shortens a woman's life span.

Under the third precept of Buddhism, which demands abstinence from all sexual misconduct, 20 groups of women are listed as forbidden. Whores are not included among them.

The staff at Passione made no secret what kind of material they were adapting so it getting the axe without any visible public uproar stinks of people higher up giving the order, I do not see the japanese "giving it x more episodes", their culture is quite trigger happy once any trespassing of the rules is detected.

Hiroki not Takuya wrote:

I wasn't meaning to imply "voluntary(?)" meant sexual slavery but that as another poster pointed out, prostitution isn't usually truly voluntary even if done with free will as it is done out of some level of desperation except in rare cases. "Everyone" knows it causes all sorts of emotional and physical trauma and drastically shortens a woman's life span.

I think that is largely a stereotype being repeated and isn't backed up by the facts. I will admit that it's been about 10 years since I've done much reading on the subject, but around that time I did a lot of research on prostitution in general, and especially in Asia after a friend introduced me to the book Pink Samurai by Nicholas Bornoff. I've watched a number of documentaries on the subject as well. While it's certainly true that prostitution does have a lot of bad things associated with it, and that human trafficking, literal slavery, and so on is often involved, it's also inaccurate to paint it with that wide of a brush. There are women (and men, though it is far more rare) who get into it because they enjoy it, and others have no moral hangups about it and they see it just like any other job. I think that many of us (mainly in the West) are brought up being taught that prostitutes are low-classed people, dirty, that only lowlifes visit prostitutes and so on (I know I was taught that), but cultural attitudes vary widely about that worldwide and not everyone shares our view. To quote Nick Tosches:

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Under the third precept of Buddhism, which demands abstinence from all sexual misconduct, 20 groups of women are listed as forbidden. Whores are not included among them.

I don't go off stereotypes and our church has a ministry outreach that is headed by a former prostitute who has helped many women get away from slavery, beatings, emotional abuse, etc. that are common features among prostitutes on the streets. I have talked to her myself so I'd rather you not assume I am ignorant.