Anti-Islamic Anime Pulled
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 22, 2008 22:19 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Islam, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Shueisha
The apparent use of the Koran in popular and long running anime/manga “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” has aroused umbrage amongst some in the Arabic speaking world, it would appear.
A villain in the series apparently reads the book whilst plotting to kill the protagonist – it would appear he did not possess any religious motivation for killing JoJo, so this is clearly a calumny against Islam, or so some shrill voices in the Arabic speaking world have said.
Publisher Shueisha has already bowed to pressure and suspended distribution of the offending products, though they brush off the criticism as being the result of an accident: “A book (in Arabic) to evoke the atmosphere of the setting, Egypt, was needed, and the Koran was unknowingly used. We apologise for any offence caused to devotees of Islam”.
A storm in a teacup? No word on what the page in question actually says. Via Itai News.
Well, I for one, am not offended. Perhaps the four years I spent on lurking imageboards made me go “meh, I’ve seen worse”.
…wow…the war on Iraq is now Justified…people like these NEEDS to be re-educated…or somehow erased from existence.
The anime producer done something wrong, I think
if they want “evoke the atmosphere of Egypt”, they should go with book with hieroglyph in it
Wow.. just because the book is in Arabic, that doesn’t mean that he’s reading a Koran.. This case somewhat makes us think ppl in Muslim countries only have and sell Korans.
*opens up a dusty copy of mine*
well, judging from its unique layout, that book depicted there IS definitely the Holy Qur’an
its not like he set it on fire or something, that would be taking it a little too far
Presumably there’s some legible text to identify the book if it is not explicitly stated. What puzzles me is why it’s a big deal…
Popular anime and manga, such as Devilman, have been laying into the Abrahamic religions for ages. Sure, it was mostly Christianity taking the flack but it’s all fundamentally the same ideas.
I also think the old-school mangaka like Go Nagai would have fought to keep their subversive themes intact. Causing outrage is good press, capitulation isn’t.
A Japanese company already bowed down to a few fruitcakes in S.Korea so this isn’t much of a surprise to me.
Japan doesn’t want to miss the appeasement boat that most of eurotrash and hollyweird has clinged on to for decades now. They all want to get along with them ragheads something fierce.
Meanwhile, A Japanese draws Jesus with a bottle of sake in hand while bleeding over a naked girl while raping her? No problem! Nuns being tentacle skewered? Have a go -but be careful- that’s so ’80s… The cross used to bust hymens and beat people dead? It’s been done already and they just can’t stop it.
Christianity is fair game over there.
sigh this stupid extremists really have to shut the fuck up already or best just blast themselves to bits.
Whats soooooo special about a stupid mass produced book that you arent allowed to even draw it somewhere? omg its holy, thats just plain retarded, in hellsing whole corridors get decorated with torn out bible pages and noone cares. its so stupid, there caricaturists draw the glourious sieg heil nazi jesus but when here one singe guy draws a little pic of “tha mohammed” its like the end of the world and all want his testicles on a golden plate for dinner.
I’ll admit that what some Muslims are doing is going too far but tbqh if we don’t like something being done to or shown about our holy book we have every right to say we don’t want that being shown. Just like the Christians can say they don’t want something being done to or shown about their bible. Problem is many don’t speak up against it and at the moment it seems what we (Muslims) say has more influence in the world because of those retarded few who think its ok to blow others up so it only takes a small number to get things pulled.
Up untill recently, you had no legal right to tell me that I couldn’t draw Muhammad being raped by a pack of wolves. Luckily for you, the already useless UN Human Rights Council was steamrolled by Muslims that forced it to become a violation of their human rights.
Oh, and those “retards” use the same book as every other Muslim, and they interpret it just as accurately as any other. Would they blow themselves up if they didn’t have the Qur’an? I doubt it.
God dammit, I hate religion.
I love only sintho )
I’m not racist or something, but my opinion is: “Hey, that islamic guys is too mean. We must’n treat them better than other peoples or they will become impertinent.”
excessive political correctness isn’t better than racism and hate
No wonder it was the Koran. once it was introduced all egyptian culture and arabic literature and knowledge was destroyed. Producing an arabian dark age similar to the christian darkage between the time all non christian books were banned and the church forbade reading the bible lest the people discover that jesus didn’t approve of crusades and such. the western dark ages affected both religions.
God, the middle ages fucked us all up.