Police have arrested two boys for the crime of duelling, blaming the influence of shonen manga.
Saitama police effected the arrest of a 15-year-old labourer and a 16-year-old schoolboy for allegedly arranging a duel in which the pair did do battle in such a manner as to render diverse injuries to each, including a broken index finger.
Police describe each as the member of a separate gang of roughs, with the duel arranged to determine which gang would be merged into the other as subordinates.
Police proclaimed manga was to blame for the “duel”:
“There are all kinds of manga in circulation which depict youths challenging each other to duels as heroes, and these only encourage young boys to aspire to violence.”
Apparently the fact that the boys were already in gangs was less of a factor in the crime than the availability of shonen manga in the prefecture, as was the general tendency of Japanese history to glorify duelling swordsmen as the epitome of honourable conduct.
Japan’s archaic anti-duelling law actually stems from its Meiji period modernisation, the ban being enacted in 1889 to stop quarrels over honour degenerating into bloodshed. Moderate prison sentences are prescribed for anyone involved with organising or conducting a duel.
Police were able to charge them with duelling, an extremely rare charge, due to the mutually consenting nature of the fight.
There are a number of previous cases of police choosing to apply the law to schoolboy fights, with police apparently using the archaic law as a way of securing prosecutions in cases where simple assault charges might not stick.
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Gangsters and Yugi-Oh don't mix.
Anyways... They're lucky those gang members just dueled. If they had a gangwar they'd wish they would have dueled instead.
agreed.
at the least they decided to sort out their differences via a shadow game instead of waging gang wars
But according to them, anything "insipired" from a shonen manga are always the worse ideas. :>
God forbid they get influenced by shoujo-manga where rape impulses are apparently an everyday thing.
At least they didn't play russian roulette.
"Today, the police found two children dueling each other in a so called "Shadow game", where the participants injured each other. The police have this to say: "This is obviously the work of the eeeevil magazine, Shounen Jump!"
In other news, the police caught two children playing with a revolver, and we believe they were playing "Russsian Roulette". They players take turns aiming one revolver towards their head, and the revolver is only loaded with one bullet. The loser is the one receiving the bullet.
The police have this to say: "Just children's game.""
Just random thoughts. :|
Weirdly enough I had a friend that tried that when I was younger. Needless to say the results for him were not positive.
Misleading picture is misleading.
Yugioh Gangs remind me of that one xplay skit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG-4n75U7u0
>They're lucky those gang members just dueled
Say what? Shadow duels are serious fukken business.
This is probably the smartest & most responsible thing a gang has done... ever.
And then they throw them in jail- whereas with a gang war, they all would've clammed up, refused to say anything and gotten off scot free.
They simply fought each other.
It was a "normal duel" (=fighting), no card duel.
Don't jump to wrong conclusions just because there's a Yu-Gi-Oh! picture there...
@anon 20:04 learn to read, think, and take a joke
If he doesn't know how to read, how's he gonna read your post?
If he doesn't know how to read, how come he was able to write something back?!
My mind is full of fuck!
Agreed it could have been a lot worse for gangsters this actually is good behavior.
If ever an article has deserved a facepalm this is it.
nah, i just think does japanese government and police no longer has honor?
but its not shounen manga if not one died shounen style -_- points out the police arent genre savvy enough? I'll just call this an ordinary day of a police blaming something without the right research
“There are all kinds of manga in circulation which depict youths challenging each other to duels as heroes, and these only encourage young boys to aspire to violence.”
Can't they come up with better lines and more creative sources to blame... >_>
they should have stick to children's card games.
For some reason, playing that "Childrens Card Game" caused an old man to become severely injured.
I see you have been watching yugioh the abridged series on youtube XD
ATTENTION DUELISTS!! My hair thinks the government hates fun!
I see I have a stalker. >.>...
duels, pfft, its not a real duel unless it involves a sword and the code of bushido.
-None can withstand my ZANKANTOU!
GTFO.
I guess they won't be activating their trap cards for a while.
Pico to Chico BAD END...
Pico X Coco X Chico ==> true ending
since the beginning of time, human has been blaming the society and their surrounding environments rather than critising and accepting human nature...
What are you talking about?
Who dies in shounen manga? No one.
Any death is a rare occurence.
rare occurence but at least 5 characters die in every series of a shounen manga.
basically the reason why i point out death via shounen style -_- if these dont occur then no one is to blame no one is 'hurt' and everyone is 'happy' yep... thx to angel beats i found a meaning in death like in a shounen manga -_-
The only shonen series where people don't die once in a while are those that were horribly butchered for a western release.
Hello 4kids, I love you, too.
Or RTL II, the German equivalent of 4kids.
In German Naruto, Itachi sent the Uchihas on a 'long trip'.
They actually do...
..usually in the finale.
I blame cowboy shows... XDDD
It seems to me it's safer for them to duel based off shonen manga than it would be for them to duel based off something far more dangerous...
like U.S. Television.
Must have been the shadow games that force them to do this. don't tell me bakura is one of them O_O
Mattaku~
Manly fights/duels shouldn't be interfered.
so...who won?
The rich one. He was able to screw the rules.
The rich kid he had all the best cards.
It's time, to d-d-d-d...d-d-d-d-duel!
You OK there pal?
Turrets strikes again...
No father! no! please NO!!
don't tell me they did a shadow game here? hopefully bakura is one of them O_O
Do not blame the manga, blame the IQ of the children!
Fixed it for you.