Any doubts that the Tokyo government’s efforts to ban manga, anime and games from showing any sex (whilst leaving novels and film completely alone) represent nothing less than an expression of contempt for and an assault on Japan’s anime, manga and game industries have been dispelled in a series of astonishingly hostile remarks by the crazed geriatrics who run the city.
Tokyo’s 78-year-old governor Shintarō Ishihara is already notorious for making xenophobic remarks and for being a key backer of Tokyo’s ongoing efforts to destroy the anime, manga and game industries, but his latest remarks add a healthy dose of homophobia to the mix:
There are even homosexuals on TV now, as if there is nothing wrong with it. Japan is too unregulated. I come with a sense of duty.
Rich talk coming from a man whose own novels lovingly describe schoolgirl gang-rape and murder, and a definite sign that fujoshi can expect their favourite works to be banned along with everything else.
In other remarks he reveals yet more signs of delusion – “Even overseas where they are sexually open, children are a no-go.”
That Japan is not sexually open is probably news to Japanese and non-Japanese alike, and the fact that rates of child sex abuse are vastly higher overseas than in Japan rather undermines his position.
Actor and comedian Hiroiki Ariyoshi cheekily tweets back that “The only reason Ishihara is blaming manga all the time now is because he is angry that he can’t it up any more – give it up already.”
The madness does not stop there – his deputy, vice governor Naoki Inose, a 64-year-old writer, recently made an astonishing tweet in which he called manga readers a pack of losers:
I get the impression that many manga lovers lead dead-end lives. Go talk to a living woman!
You don’t know what they’ll say from moment to moment, so they are far more interesting and lovely.
He has apparently come to the conclusion that people only read manga because they have no girlfriends.
The far-reaching redraft of the law these politicians are struggling to justify has also been subject to harsh criticism.
Lawyers say it is worded such that it could be used to censor any work of fiction which contains a depiction of a crime, censoring works for showing “virtual crimes” and allowing the Tokyo government to arbitrarily ban any work which contains unlawful death or violence (practically all anime, manga and games with any action content).
All this whilst Japan has some of the lowest crime rates in the world – virtually the only explanation for such a law being presented is that the proponents are senile or mad, and bear a seething hatred for Japan’s contemporary visual culture.
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and what with girls otaku, they should talk to real woman too?
Female otaku are called "Fujoshi"!
Funny, I almost skipped the quote out of habit, because I automatically ignore low level trollings like that.
Even if we otaku do nothing about such laws on our own, retards like that will make sure that the commoners do it for us...
"You condemn what you do not understand!" - Ezio Auditore, fictional proponent of freedom of expression and 40-year-old renaissance pimp.
Ezio Auditore was more then right on the mark for it.
Perhaps someone needs to revive a certain Ancient Order and clean up Japan :)
"Go talk to a living woman!"
I already talk to myself!
"Go talk to a living woman!"
I DON'T have a girlfriend AT ALL, Mr. Vice-Governor!!
These idiots are only going to get opposite results with that talk.
So basically...Let's blame what we don't understand?
When shit goes wrong, old people ALWAYS blame the new media. Burning books and film reels, banning video games...it never ends.
because their OLD and they didnt experience what young generation are experiencing XD
@ Anon 07:52:
Or, perhaps it's because the "old media" doesn't like "new media" competition, and he's paying the "old media" back a favor he owed them; perhaps they contributed money to his political campaign.
And when the young people become the old people, the cycle will begin again.
Of course it begins again, why should those young people have an easier time than we did =P
Sad but true unless the new older generation are opened otaku :D
The really impressive young people don't make it to old age.
The new young generation will start acting like the old old generation and the shit will go on until the last human sucks dirt.
Some old men are not worthy of respect and should turn to dirt as soon as possible. Scientifically, we call these old shits palaeofaecalenchelopathic.
My late grandpa didn't... When he saw ugly shit hitting the fan, he blamed the government. He never whined about the violent games we loved... Like Mortal Kombat and shit.
The "blame what we don't understand" is the best way to explain banning anything really.
@Jash true, the only way that we can at least slow down this wave of stupidity due to ignorance is to put a notice on all works of fiction... a big
"THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION
fic·tion [fik-shuhn]
-noun
1.the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form.
2.something feigned, invented, or imagined; a made-up story.
3.the act of feigning, inventing, or imagining.
4.an imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation.
5.Law. an allegation that a fact exists that is known not to exist, made by authority of law to bring a case within the operation of a rule of law."
that would be enough to get some of those stupid fools to stop, though not all.
for those stupid enough to challenge it even after such measures are taken into account, then you can sue them for defamation and/or harassment, and if you can somehow prove it, a hate crime. and with such a thing, they would have absolutely no chance in court if such a notice was easily seen and understandable.
its sad to see how ignorant some people are...
^ sums up everything perfectly
In that case maybe but some things do deserve to be banned, like the Sharia books in UK for ex.
>>I get the impression that many manga lovers lead dead-end lives. Go talk to a living woman!
I get the impression that many husbands end up inm a living hell. Go find MORE MOE!
>>You don’t know what they’ll say from moment to moment, so they are far more interesting and lovely.
You don’t know what they’ll ask you to buy from moment to moment, so they are far more money-sucking and bitchy.
"Go find MORE MOE!"
Amen to that!
Basically an old man waving his rake at passerby.
a 78 year old man still in government....
Who the fuck voted for this guy..?
Hopefully once this proposed ban fails he'll be too senile to try it again.
And I thought only in the old eastern bloc old farts were in power.
Those that had the same political views as him
I honestly hope it gets the otakus out voting and that the last political accomplishment he will do is say I got more people to come out and vote (against me).
@dirtypair
Japan has a very strict seniority system in society, even more so than in other countries.
Their whole salary and promotion system is based mostly on worker's age, not productivity.
LOL, exactly...
Someone hasn't been getting his anime/manga fix lately >.>
It doesn't matter how technologically advanced a nation is, the politicians can still set you back decades.
To an extent, we have the same problem with some old men in the U.S. government.
Ishihara is just pissed that Aya Hirano aired out his sun-rays nipple indecent. Its embarrassing for him that others know he can't hold is drink
I just sent a tweet his way, asking him politely to commit seppuku for his ignorant and biased views about manga fans. This is rediculous. Tokyo is basically a useless vessel without their manga market so they should just pipe down.
Oh wow I have read Twilight NOW WHAT!?
bah... as if every ppl who read manga or watch anime has no gf ......
there were fight scenes in twilight. BAN IT!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!1
Even if the second statement is a bit much in its generalizations, the talk about a real woman is nonetheless true at least. Whether good or bad, a real woman is certainly more interesting thankfully.
The majority of the older generations definitely need to either die or shut up in most instances. Either way, I definitely look forward to our own senators and such being under the age of 40 and seeing what occurs.
true that there are people that are out there who are both fans of manga/anime and have phobias of society, there are people who are just not good at dealing with people, but i dont understand how banning works of imagination has anything to do with helping such people in any significant way.
as usual, the old farts complaining about crap they dont understand and wish they had when they were kids... "I remember a time where ronin still roamed the countryside and flintlock carbines were the choice of weapons..." damn fools...
i guess the thing you can take from this is that ignorant stupid people are the cause of most problems in this world...
I have a wife, a child and a happy family
so what? I need a grandson now?
bullshit if all otakus can't manage their own life!
im a guy and i have a social life and i read manga...
...your point is invalid~?
I'm a pretty silent guy inrl but even I use to have a girl friend who was into manga/anime, so what the fucks up w/ this bullshit that all anime fans are losers?
Reminds me of Germany. Same Babbling of the (nearly) same Thema.
But in Germany there is it an old Woman. ^_^
true i never had i gf
but i just started anime/manga around 3-4 years ago (21 now)
so what ?
Maybe this old man is jealous he can't partake in the loli raep.
As they usually do everywhere, Japon or not. I wish it wasn't so because it's so lame. I thought that the Japanese were proud of their own culture... It's really lame.
Anime isn't a culture, why don't you weeaboos get that? Japanese don't go around acting like in these cartoons.
it's the internet,anything's possible
because there are vampires and zombies in America and wizards in the UK?
it's culture just as much as Hemingway books are culture, dick.
Anime is a recognized art form.
w334b00, most of us are well aware of the fact that most anime is not the same as real life. Neither is 24, House, Smallville, The Vampire Diaries, or most other television shows. But I don't see anyone smashing those for being unrealistic. Pick your battles - if you're going to bash fans of any work because it's different from real life, you have a long battle ahead of you in just about every single existing field of media. Have fun.
the most shocking thing I found in reading this is that a 64 year old uses twitter.
And it not cartoon, it's anime noob!
question: just HOW did he get(s)elected as Tokyo Governor again?
“The only reason Ishihara is blaming manga all the time now is because he is angry that he can’t get it up any more – give it up already.”-Hiroiki Ariyoshi
I LOL'D ^
i bet he was that ONE GUY who picked on the "otakus" in school ya know one of "them types" who get off by belittling others so they can fill in the empty void that was his soul? well w/e let's hope he gets ousted or something cuz i don't see Shintarō Ishihara getting re-(s)elected anytime soon
HUh? "Blame, hate, fear what we cannot understand?" Isn't that a Marvel Comic copyrighted phrase?
This has been the anthem of the old and dying since time immemorial.
I'm still laughing at the homophobic comment early in the article.lulz...
niceee virgin
makes sense