Strike Witches Licensed in US

and gaymen

fuck that gerugamesh disease

looool. No pantsu for the usa version. or loli for that matter.

O RLY?

I haven't seen further than the first episode since I don't like digital distribution, so I wil be buying the DVDs also. Though, there is one Loli anime I really wish would come out in the US, and that is Kodomo no Jikan. But I guess this will do for now.

kojika? in US? keep dreaming...

Yeah,I highly doubt kojika will make it to these shores. As with the material in Strike Witches, a censored North American DVD release is almost certain to happen. Too bad, I wanted my own copy of the real deal, with officially licensed subs and maybe even a special limited edition DVD release (with a goodie :3). Guess I'll have to import this series.

Yeah, I know Kojika will never happen, but I can always hope. I will probbaly import the DVDs from Japan anyways once I take Japanese.

Seriously though, I think the fact that they censor this word in their porn speaks volumes for the quality difference in obsenity. That or Japanese people just get turned on by censoring.

obscenity even.

UNICEF? You mean the FBI, right?

They'd be on Funimation in a HEARTBEAT if they knew this was going to ATTEMPT to be passed through US Customs.

The US supreme court has already ruled a few times that anything "drawn" is protected under freedom of speech.

plus one of their cases they had involved what "appeared" to be a young character in sexual situations, and the prosecutors lost because the US supreme court ruled that there is no such thing as "age" in something drawn/not real. They also went as far to clarify that as long as no real-life children were used, there is nothing that can be done.

As for that court case you're referring too, if you ask me...the prosecutors will most likely lose, since the US Supreme Court already made a ruling on this and it's decision overrides everything else. As for the S.A.F.E act....I don't know much about it, but the only reason why its still there is because it hasn't been challenged in court yet as far as I know.

And with any luck they'll make it to Supreme Court and re-revise the law yet again, hopefully in favor of common sense (it will depend on the ratio of conservative:liberal justices at the time the case makes it there, assuming it can).

I'd call this a kind of Reverse Evolution we're undergoing (as has been said previously here on SanCom).

How often do you find otaku-positive families, couples? How often to do you find moralfags who breed (and vote) like empty-headed bunnies?

More generally speaking, Liberals seem to beget a fraction the progeny Conservatives do, leading to these endless barrages of Obscenity laws, and unfortunately you can never be quite sure the lower courts will even grant the resultant cases permission to be viewed by the Supreme Court.

Check the history of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. They had one really tragic loss in the 90's, where a comic book author in Florida was denied moving his case any farther up the ladder, and got saddled with government-enforced psychiatric evaluation among other punishments (makes me remember A Clockwork Orange...).

All for cartoons he drew, without even provable intent to distribute, on some sheets of paper.

So this shit DOES happen.

Democracy is such a nice ideal, but the Majority will unerring remain being uneducated fanatics who can breed faster than they know how to read.

Thus, this Orwellian spiral it so frequently feels we're heading down these days.

Bah, my top 10 list of *victimless* things I most love about life are all illegal anyway, and they're all equally silly to legislate, and silly to give too much thought to anyway. So at this point in my life I analyze more than rage, and still am plenty able to enjoy what I'm built to enjoy without feeling too oppressed. Something most people who post here on SanCom seem to exhibit as well.

It's best to just view the legal issues involved in controversial anime-themed entertainment as opening yourself up to possibly getting infected by a very rare, potentially freedom-draining disease.

Call it something like Aquired Intrusive Discrimination Syndrome :D

Well sooner or maybe they might be, but since they are noticing that they are, they are posting up the uncut unedited version of Yugioh on thier youtube site http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CCCADF9834901E72 <--- here it is. Sooner or later that since they have some anime with them they are soon going to do the same thing with yugioh all uncut and uncensored.