PM Hatoyama Huge Fan of Ecchi Manga I”s
- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: Sep 25, 2009 07:39 JST
- Tags: Censorship, DPJ, Masakazu Katsura, Politics, Studio Ghibli, Yukio Hatoyama
New Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has confessed to being an avid fan of manga and anime, mentioning the notoriously erotic manga I”s as a favourite, and saying that he thinks government should promote and not restrict manga and anime.
The 62-year-old statesman professed in a freshly uncovered 2005 interview with a now defunct otaku magazine to reading manga magazines such as Weekly Shonen Magazine and Shonen Sunday when a student, but his more recent favourite is apparently Katsura Masakazu’s famed and highly erotic tale of school romance Ｉ”s (shown), which he apparently avidly read each week during its serialisation in the late nineties.
Regarding anime, he confesses to being a fan of Hayao Miyazaki, of Studio Ghibli fame, mentioning Spirited Away and Mononoke Hime as particular favourites.
He says of Miyazaki “he portrays man and nature skilfully, and leads the viewer on,” not entirely unexpected praise coming from a man who pledged to impose draconian CO2 output reductions on his nation’s industry.
He holds forth on anime and manga more generally:
“Well, Japan is proud that its anime is the best in the world, we have to continue this. I think that ensuring the industry is led forward is extremely important.
Government should not regulate the industry, but should rather help promote it. Japan today is becoming less valued by the world.
But Japanese anime and manga are leading the world, isn’t this something we should promote? I think Japanese have lately been losing their sense of hope and their dreams; I want them to reclaim these through the likes of manga and anime.”
Former PM Aso too was supposedly a fan and ardent supporter of Japanese visual culture, yet his administration led a series of attacks on the very freedom of expression which has created the industry as it is today.
Just what actions Hatoyama will take remains to be seen, particularly considering the potential that he was merely telling the interviewer what he wanted to hear, but with the PM himself once admitting to being a fan of the sort of thing illustrated, it might be wondered how seriously he could take the claims of organisations which would have his favourite manga banned given the chance…
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Yea I love I's. Think Happy Thoughts.
I"s is a beautiful love story with a few realisitic illusions the main characters have about the surrounding girls ;D, i grew up with I"s... that might be why im fapping...
but love it, i own two copies of I"s...
Hah!! Bite that, Equality Now!!
BOOM HEADSHOT!!
Otaku 3, EN zero!! Strrrrrrike 3, you're out!!
Everybody!!! Do the Caramell Dansen now to celebrate!! XD
^ ... why...
caramell dansen is fucking retarded
datass
The new guy sounds all right. He likes eroge and saving the environment, what's not to like?
caramelldansen is legend, go fuck yourself anon.
lol my thought exactly. TAKE THAT Equality Now rofl.
>saving the environment
>reduce CO2
(☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞ O U
Best version of caramelldansen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEdPmEZmfA0
oh back then I read I''s every month as well, and DNA2. nice innocent memories....
I own the whole I`s tankobon series in japanese! And all Katsura Masakazu`s other mangas too.
PM Hatoyama doesn`t need help from some freedom-enemy party like Komeito, like former PM Aso did, to stay in power. Son he can have his politics as he want`s it, as long he has his party behind him. For time being, i don`t think any of his allied parties want to risk by letting LDP back in power, so i guess otaku interests are safe for years to come.
Two copies, what might the second copy be for?
The guy has good taste.
Ah i do miss this manga~ one of the reason why i luv reading manga.
And by "reading" we must understand "fapping hard".
+1
Here's hoping he receives word of EqualityNow's bullshit attempts at banning hentai,and does his best at stopping them.
I agree. (2nd post, just noticed yours.)
*raises glass*
*raises two glasses*
*Raises three glasses*
*Raises one thousand glasses with my tentacle arms*
*juggles three glasses* =D
*raises 9000++ glassess with my otaku army*
*Goes super saiyan to raise super glass*
*raises glasses with my loli army*
*raises ass*
*raises glass*
C-C-CCCCCCCCOMBO BREAKERRRRR
*raises penis*
raises own penis and invites others to do the same
I agree wholeheartedly Rokudaime, here's hoping japan's new PM will fight for the anime industry and it's future.
HELL YES PM DUDE
Also, hell yes saucy Katsura Masakazu stuff!
Looks like Equality Now will have a hard time convincing THIS guy to ban hentai and other goodies.
Indeed. Remember, Aso likes Rozen Maiden (which is NOT ecchi). & Hato likes I"s (which is ecchi). Go figure.
I hope you're right.
It would be nice to see Japan demonstrate some courage and respond to those attacks by publicly denouncing them as primitive book-burning.
But... simply ignoring pitiable, compassionless, intolerant groups like EN is almost better in a way.
"Don't feed the trolls".
:P
Japan should not suck foreign cock. Get back to being nationalistic. More manga, more H!
^This.
Yea im a pretty big fan of I"S myself, easily one of my favorites of all time.
I"s FTW!
I need to read that again...
where is agnes chan?
she will pick a fight with japanese pm
Hahaha, eat that, Equality Now!
Yet another otaku prime minister?
Who isn't a otaku these days? There is nobody existing that don't got at last one favorite manga.
everyone is a closet otaku.
Unfortunately,there are plenty of them,believe me.
If Obama can be a big hater of Kanye West, there's exactly no impossibilities that the Japanese PM is a big fan of ecchi mangas.
Kanye West sucks