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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ITS A TRAP CARD!
Ohh, Japanese police. Keeping being fucking retarded, so I can keep laughing.
Don't say that - all police are fucking retarded. XD
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This is Super Special Awesome
Its the opposite in North America... gangs beat YOU up if you like manga.
he spelled dueling wrong
Would they be arrested if they used invisible guns?
only if 4kids have anything to say about it
Maybe the police should blame the environment around the boys rather than shounen manga..
A 15 yr old boy & 16 yr old boy on a 1-on-1 duel?
WTF is wrong with that people?? That's what being a boy is all about!!
A broken finger? i got a fractured jaw, bloody nose & bumps n bruises all over my body when i fight 1-on-1 as a 15 yr old boy, & i'm F*ck'n proud of that even if i lose!!!
Duel or do?
Then MMA fights, wrestling and sumo wrestling should be outlawed since it is also a form of dueling.
they just blame things on manga because they cant control the children
you know why they were arrested? THEY FORGOT TO CHALLENGE THE COPS IN A CARD GAME TO MAKE THE COPS LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!!!!
afterall yusei did it and it worked lol~
Would have been better without the purposeless "BASH ON YU-GI-OH!" picture.
Personally, I wouldn't blame shonen manga.... most likely, they got this idea from history class. This was a COMMON way to settle disputes in feudal Japan.
at least some people have honour
*desperately thinking*... Yugioh made me do it!
Let's just ban everything already
this is getting annoying
The solution is to change people's minds not banning shit. Learn already
they choose to blame manga over TV or movies which is so much easier to access and shown much more. wtf
Didn't this happen in Durarara!!!
Wouldn't it be wonderful to read news like this - only not bullshit? I mean, for example, the headline could be:
Boys Arrested for "Duelling": Low Brain Cell Count to Blame
Or maybe, "Parents to Blame," or even more likely: "REGULAR TV to Blame."
Silly gangster, he should have used Mind Crush on the police or his opponent.
It's time to Do-do-do-DUEL!
every time I hear the siren, I'm always thinking they're rushing to a donuts shop.
Please tell me this took place on motorcycles.
Boy A:"I summon fist from below"
BOY: B:"i play the trap card dodge and active the quick spell kick to face!"
BOY A:"i chain the counter trap card kick to nuts"
BOY B:" OH NO MY LFE POINTS!!!"
another police's idiocity. The fact that they can't prevent the duel from happening is the reason for blaming Yu-Gi-Oh manga. There are other manga with more bloody dueling scene, and they just pick yu gi oh(cuz maybe they hear it more often).
i wonder if there's a kid jumping from roof, trying to be superman, they're going to blame P-man and anpanman for this.
crows zero!!!
Come on Japan... Samurai Spirit should be respected... the loser of the duel should commit sepukku.
So the Police believe Yu-gi-oh was to blame for influencing dueling were they playing card while this happen or did they just started fighting?
They've bastardized duelling!! Where is the honour now?? EN GARDE, BASE KNAVES!!
Both families will now live in shame for the rest of their days.
Nice pic selection for the article Artefact!
Regarding the topic, ain't fight a must of in almost all schools? And since thy were on a gang it was bound to happen, but blaming manga? priceless FAIL!
Saitama police obviously prefers Japanese youth to follow american standards, where a guy gives no warning and just arrives fully equipped with guns and shoots his awe struck classmates to death and kills himself at the end.
i bet they think that is more manly too.
NO! Violence is stupid and a waste of time and health...gangs? Are you idiots? Why not stop pollution instead of wasting time on shit like that or stopping death around the world.....really stupid!
Beats having both gangs engage each other, settling it like gentlemen is the way to go.
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.
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
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.
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
“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.
GTFO.
For some reason, playing that "Childrens Card Game" caused an old man to become severely injured.
duels, pfft, its not a real duel unless it involves a sword and the code of bushido.
-None can withstand my ZANKANTOU!
I see you have been watching yugioh the abridged series on youtube XD
I see I have a stalker. >.>...
ATTENTION DUELISTS!! My hair thinks the government hates fun!
I blame cowboy shows... XDDD
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.
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.
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 -_-
rare occurence but at least 5 characters die in every series of a shounen manga.