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.
I’m a young adult female and I say this:
f♥♥k you Ishihara and Naoki Inose for generalization, discrimination, and harassment of manga/anime fans because they read books and watch shows.
Your old pieces of dirt s♥♥t. What do shows or comic books have anything to do with the status of people’s personal lives?
It’s not there for you to judge, so mind your old ass businesses fucking limp-ass crows.
Well I just posted that this regulation reminds me of the liberals in America, but it was deleted. So this site must agree with the Japanese. Censor so people cant think for themselves.
If any of you are Liberal you add to this regulitory craziness. You should think anbout what you truely believe, and quit being brain washed.
Talk to a real woman? About what? You’d want me to waste my precious time getting involved with a woman I’d never marry and then you wonder why birth rates decline and divorces increase in number?
Talking to women for a little chat is ok but why should I find myself a girlfriend just to please the government? That’s just retarded. I’ll find myself a suitable girl when the time comes and when I can support a family and don’t do it like the fags in the 60s/70s when they produced lots of babies but noone was the father…. It’s just unreasonable because:
first you watch anime
then you get a job = less time for anime
then you get a wife = even less time for anime
then you have children = least time for anime
anime will gradually fade away in our lifes because we only have 24 hours a day of which we sleep at least 6 and eat at least 1, so once we get occupied with something else consume will decrease, but only because I decrease the amount of things I do in my free time wouldn’t necessarily lead to me getting a girlfriend to fool around, I’d rather enjoy my archery/ building model kits/ Flying my model-airplanes because that is always fun, nothing like building up a faked physical relationship with no outcome for me (except less spending money on my studies/hobbies).
If they want us to get girlfriends they should at least provide us the money to do so, I don’t want to work my butt off besides my studies just to do small talk with a stranger instead of watching anime for free or spending my little extras on my hobby/studying material (I’ve already spend like 2 grand in 2 semesters on study material because they are way too expensive, I don’t know how he thinks the people in Japan live but they sure must work hard because studying there is many times more expensive than here and still,without financial support from my parents I wouldn’t be able to study without having to work= no time left for a girlfriend anyway).
Girlfriends are something for ambitious highschoolers but not for
hardworking people like us*
Well apparently the Japanese Gods Smote them, and said “NAY! We smite-ith thee! Until you reconsider your actions!”