Tokyo Anime Fair: “We Can No Longer Hold The Event”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 22, 2010 20:37 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Events, Kadokawa, Marketing, Politics, Tokyo, Tokyo Anime Fair
The organisers of the Tokyo Anime Fair are reporting they will likely have to cancel the event after the anime industry pulled out in disgust at the Tokyo government’s hostility to them.
After a coalition of 10 publishers vowed to boycott the event, the organisers (the unfortunately named “Association of Japanese Animations”) suddenly reopened their attendee recruiting efforts, but now seem to have realised the futility of this:
“It has become essentially impossible to hold the event.
The targets and criteria of the new restrictions are vague and ambiguous, and are a major issue with respect to the spirit of our constitutionally guaranteed free speech.
We can’t avoid the withdrawal of so many participants. To maintain the quality we have previously delivered would be exceedingly difficult.”
Meanwhile governor Ishihara has repeatedly said he does not care if they refuse to attend and that he expects the event to be fine without them – apparently he wishes to highlight the vitality of the Japanese animation industry with only Disney in attendance, quite the irony for a man who has made a career out of hating foreigners.
Even Japan’s prime minister has stated he hopes the event can go ahead – which now seems impossible without the ban being repealed.
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This is a TRIUMPH for manga and anime!
The artists have radicalized.
The artists are pushing the government!
The government wanted the artists to say, "Censor us, just don't say we can't work."
Instead the artists said, "To hell with you, we won't work if you censor us!"
This is victory! Sure, it may hurt to go without our fix of fandom, but this means the artists are showing backbone!
You know what, in this case, publishers are taking all the action. Why? THEY'RE GONNA LOSE MONEY! They don't really give a fuck about the cartoonists that gave them something to publish.
In the meantime, artists only went as far as giving sign petition. What the fuck? You think that would work? How about fucking VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE FOR A GOVERNOR?
Time to make an Ishihara version of that Bush "I BET YOU'LL VOTE NEXT TIME, HIPPIE" macro, methinks.
You cant limit people's dreams and fantasies you asshole Ishihara.
>perversions can be choked and stamped
really?
how?
@Anon 21:57 Ignore that motherfucker. Anon 21:37 is obviously busy choking on iShitHara's stick.
...while commenting on SC
Multi-talented. :3
@Anon 08:54 Piece of advice, emo-troll-fag: Leave this site now and go fap over iShitHara pics.
Trollfags like you should be sent to an asylum or a mental hospital. At least we are more stable than you troll-loving dumbasses.
C'mon dumbass, TROLL HARDER!!!
@Anon 0:54 don't be jealous because they lost interest in you when you grew older.
Lol, rage moar Lamberto. Your faggotry becomes that much more obvious.
Oh look how cute. Three of Sancom's sick pedophiles all in a row.
But perversions can be choked and stamped. Keep up the good work Ishihara!
@Anon 21:37 EWWWW! Quit sucking iShitHara's old hairy dick, emofag!
I was half bored until I read this specific thread in the comments section.
Shit made me lol hard.
And now you're riding on his hotdog. Well done, emofag!
@thekiss Yeah and this dumbass anon 21:51 is so fucking funny, he should just slit his wrist instead of being iShitHara's emofag bitch.
I support @the REAL Lamberto!
Oh Lamberto, you and your dick fetish~
So Lamberto, how many dicks did you ride today? Seems like you're still not satisfied. Maybe you should go buy a dildo?
It's so disappointing... the otaku industry is the best thing about Japanese culture! Frigging Ishihara and his homophobic anti-foreigner hate of visual pornography. We need some otakus in the government to take this jackass DOWN! Why a 78-year-old feels his opinion on stuff he doesn't even watch is valid I do not know.
Lol are you fucking kidding me? The otaku culture is the most embarrassing culture to have come out of Japan. You otakus should be dragged out of the streets and stoned.
Fucking Syi'ah...
Get the fuck back to Iran, asshole.
And I guess a troll culture is better? I say we stone the troll culture to.
Ur just stupid. Go back to ur hole
*Sarcasm mode*
Nice job breaking it, Ishihara
And alot of people are eager to break his neck because of it.^^
@crittercam Nice avatar!
Shintaro Ishihara = The New Adolf Hitler
His attire though is closer to Himmler's than to Hitler's since it's an SS uniform but it's all good.
John,
Its' from DiamondDust
and Agnes Chan would be his Joseph Goebbels..., OH WAIT! They're the SAME person I forgot! :D
@crittercam Yeah I know it's from Diamond. I just laughed so hard that I forgot to mention it. LOL!
I bet Ishihara is happy about this as there would also be no foreigners if there is no Tokyo Anime Fair
So, is Ishihara a Disney agent after all?
Probably, or worse... an agent of UNICEF Japan.
Dear God!
A Disney sponsored UNICEF Japan agent!
I'd be puking while laughing if that was real. The horror of discovering an old-prune with a delusional-hypocrite for an alter-ego.
that would be so hatefully epic if it were not for it being so disgustingly gross of a thought... but I bet Ishihara wouldn't be against the idea and probably will let you mind pass as a perfectly legal thought.
@crittercam I guess you can call Agnes Chan a total trap. And I bet "her" male fans are gonna regret that they love "her".
@John Hayabusa Don't you mean, love her more now that they've seen her "quality". Ugh.
*shudder at the thought*
Nah, I call dibs he and Agnes Chan are one person. They alternate between sexes and ego through surgery. :D
No, hell no. XD
I'm expecting him to switch sides at the very last millisecond by baring entry to the building and spouting some gibberish about how "We can't have foreign scum taint our valuable cultural symbols!" or "anime belongs to the japanese and we must protect it at all costs!' or something along those lines.
Just you watch.
If the goddamn law does make things worse for Tokyo, you can bet he'd twist his words by saying OTHER PEOPLE twisted his earlier words, or that he had some kind of grander motive that he thought he can achieve by doing so.
Politicians that are honest about themselves go down quick, but at least they go down. Hypocrites on the other hand tend to stick around some more and destroy everything that's good for anyone.
For being a writer of obscene like like 'Taiyou no Kisetsu' himself, he's nothing more than a hypocrite. He said 'I was wrong' when confronted by reporters about his own obscene works which he defended in the past, but remember what I said earlier about twisting words?
Actually, hypocrites in the states tend to go down pretty quickly. They usually 1) lose the next election, 2) be thankful they're term-limited, or 3) resign citing "personal reasons".
Sigh. It'll be interesting to see if this has any effect on the stance of the politicans, but I pretty much doubt it.
Still, all is not lost! Let's organise a convention for authors of teen rape novels instead, because that's A-OK!
Yeah. Because sickeningly exploitation in art and in books are 100% okay because at least they're based in a perverted thought of something possible in real life to be fully exploited.
Heaven forbid they exploit PURE FANTASY, DRAWN ON PAPER.
So if I draw loli porn on a canvas it's okay but not on paper?
With this law... it would probably take the rage of an old fart when seeing your "art" in some review office to ban your stuff form public showing.
Yeah, laws like this only harm public opinion and our freedom. Next, they'll ban English in all of Tokyo because it is a language of barbaric foreigners.
That would probably be more ok, as you could claim it as having artistic value.
But we all know it is for the prons.
You mean just like the Chinese did?
@Neferius Uhh, yeah.. obviously.
If events like this keep shutting down you can bet your ass some politicians are going to change their stances.
Big events like this always generate revenue in the cities they're held in. You have people from out of town who need food/lodging/necessities/etc while they're at the event.
When businesses around where the events are held suddenly notice that the crowds that used to come in every year aren't there any more they're going to start blaming their local politicians.
Sad.
But well, that's the Bill 156 for you.
Stupid ban! Japan is gonna be a total embarassment because of a corrupt scumbag.
It's kind of scary how powerful one corrupt and selfish bastard in politics is enough to topple the fabled 'roll over congress' of Japan.
I hope the Japanese citizens and especially the politicians realize rolling over and pretending they don't have a problem only makes things worse.
Dammit! Where's Hayao Miyazaki when you need him?!
@grew89 Looks like you're good at being the first one to comment on an article, along with DFC and John Hayabusa. No offense there, pal.
Add this to that:
Wished that Osamu Tezuka was still alive...
Hmm...
Can we settle for a Hatsune Miku freedom campaign in an anime?
@GraceUnderFire
It's okay. General Miku will see to his punishments, personally....
*sharpens leek probes*
John, the old fart isn't technically corrupt, it's better to call him a retard.
Well, aside from the old legends, The other powerhouse names in the industry haven't publicly spoken out yet.
Personally, It would be better for the seiyuus aswell to join the fray and rally the anime/manga loving masses through vocal means. Besides it would benefit them also with their work.
@GraceUnderFire
"Wished that Osamu Tezuka was still alive..."
I wish Akumetsu [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akumetsu] was REAL.
He would have sorted-out all of this in no time [http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/7719/torturemg9.jpg].
She's busy with her army of Tako Lukas that's infiltrating iShitHara's place at the moment.
She'll drop by shortly ; )
@Neferius,
Sure it's handy if someone like Akumetsu exists,
but reality is lame and won't allow extraordinary individuals to exist that easily so I wanna go for the "seiyuu battle cry" approach...
@diamonddust
Hmmm, I think that would make a pretty good avatar. :3
I hope the ghost of Osamu Tezuka will haunt Ishihara until he removes this ban.
It's kool, feel free to use it. :3
@Yoshii-kun,
Can you add Commissar Luka?
*coats tuna in sand*
Don't you wish there was some real life ninja all otaku worldwide could hire to make him go away?
If Ishitara tries to say "I love you" in German, the last word may appear fishy right? :3
@GraceUnderFire You beat me to it. Damn it!
@diamonddust That was pretty awesome. Now if we can just show that to iShitHara...
I wonder what would be iShitHara's reaction if he saw all of this? Would he propose a new law banning image macros?
@diamonddust,
Thanks man,this might be late but mind if I use it?
@GraceUnderFire here:
http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/2871/ishitharahater.jpg
^Good to see iShitHara has finally found his rightful place
@Diamond Dust :3,keep up the good work!
(wished Celestial Being would stop this BS)
He can just do this
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9659/ishiharaliteral.jpg
@Anon 21:17 Yeah, I wish we have real-life Ryu Hayabusa and Naruto and have them kick Ishihara's old, scrawny butt!
@crittercam hahahaha your avatar, i remembered you asked for it last time.
@johnhayabusa, @Anon 21:17 and @thereallamberto
no need for ninja and stuff when you got
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2747/spartajb.jpg
@Anon 21:17 and @johnhayabusa OR we can have Sub-Zero and Scorpion go after iShitHara and rip his spine out and set his carcass on fire.
If not ninjas, we can have Niko Belic and fuck him up with a shotgun. Or have Kratos beat the shit out him.
OR, as you suggested before John Hayabusa, we can just have Koizumi Itsuki go after iShitHara and assrape the shit out of him.
@neferius Usually the good lord works in mysterious ways, but not TODAY this here is 137 KB of straight up HG spewing DIVINE intervention.
If god is love then you can call me cupid
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1061/ishiharametsu.jpg
TL: HG=High Gore
Why do you think those extravagant fictional stories like GTO and Psychometrer Eiji, which glorifies rebellious youths defying The Man, exist?
Because they can't do it themselves. Same with all other dreamy works from them: because at the core, they're just a bunch of pussies who won't dare to go out there and take action.
Japan is now a brave, outspoken, and just country, only when their opponents are filthy gaijins. Yet, they just loooooooooooove taking it up the ass from their own men. Much like the incest loving lot that they are.
Drown in economic slump and inevitable failure to the Chinese, Japan. You pussies brought all that upon yourselves.
there has been corrupt scumbags, even before ishihara. why would the be embarassed?
@Anon 15:17 Ishihara is the biggest corrupt scumbag of them all. He has embarassed Japan the most.
They can ever fill the blanks with the Walt Disney characters, this way the anime fair will fall to the depths of hell.
Why all of Japan ? You wont find this in any media, at least not in my country. The only people who will be embarassed will be the TAF Organisers, maybe Tokyo Government, and otakus who think that Anime (and Manga) is one of the world wide most popular things. And most otakus will just be embarassed in the internet if they have to read something like "lol you and your shitty government".
"Mainstream" people will hardly be interested in that at all. Except they have an Anime/Manga loving person in their social surroundings.
Even sadder, I'm not really celebrating this news at all. This is just.... sad. I can't even bother making fun of this.
Next spring never looked less welcoming, before the build up to Summer(July) season......
It's official: Japan is going straight to hell thanks to Ishihara and his campaign.
Any market has its own "invisible hands".. It's capable of control itself.. When a Government intervene too much, backfire is not surprise..
I still say that they will continue to heckle Tokyo-ites until the act is repealed. There is too much at stake here for them to pass off so easily. If this is his way of handling politics, it would only get worse. The government is FOR the people, not against them.
I hope the event is canceled just to show this stupid politicians that not everybody is gonna roll over at everything they say. Hopefully when the new law is disintegrated they'll be able to hold the event properly.
Japan needs to put this retard out of his misery. I'm sorry did I say his misery? I meant THEIR, Japan's, misery. Seriously he's way past the expiration date for handling politics.
Ishihara...mentioning his name makes me facepalm+shakes head sideways
iShitHara should be banned for being harmful to children, he has crushed their dreams by ruining the anime fair...
@johnhayabusa i wouldn't be surprised he does hate foreigners be it black, white, asian etc.
iShitHara is gonna ban the majority of anime and manga. Fucking son of a bitch! What's next, he's gonna ban English just like China did?!
With a retard like Ishihara i can see it happening http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/905/englishmotherfucker.jpg
I hope the even is only temporarily canceled. They cancel it in Tokyo and in three or four months have it in Kyoto or some other place and make a big announcement that it will no longer be held in Tokyo. Then push to get all other anime related events out of Tokyo.
And here is where Japan starts to fall........ Otakus!!! fight for ur anime!!!
@diamonddust Judging from the pic you showed us, I guess Ishihara hates black people too.
I've heard the Chinese were more upset than anyone since TAF was key in their anime idea-stealing efforts.
Saving it for the next time iShitHara screws something up?
Yeah.
@Megidola I got another picture for your comment but i'll save for later.
C'mon Anons! Lets take over Japan!
And then they hold it in Osaka. No Kyoto. SOMEWHERE AAAH
Oh come on, I'm sure if you try really hard you can.
Now Japan will become civilized.
perhaps they can re-locate the event somewhere else if possible?
now that the event has been "canceled" the tourist industry in tokyo will suffer HARD because many a fan (both local and foreign) visit the city for this and now look at it?
i hope your "proud" of your self old man >_>
Relocation might actully be the wises Choice. If I understand correctly this ban is only valid in Tokyo-To.
Not the whole Areas surrounding Tokyo. There some quite big Cities around Tokyo that might have the facilities for such an event: Yokohama, Kawasaki, Saitama City, Chiba City...all of which are located in the surrounding prefectures while still being accessible by public transort.)
The only problem ist probably only the short timeframe which will make it impossibl to get another location.
On other musings. Maybe the ban is only a too-too good excuse to cancel the inolvement in the fair: its cheap and its media relevant.
SPOILERS!
It's Bakuman all over again.
Yeah, I wish actual people did things like that when it's needed the most...