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Japan’s prime minister has stated he hopes the event can go ahead – which now seems impossible without the ban being repealed.
That’s it, lets remember the song of twisted sister “We’re not gonna take it”
If in North America they want to outlaw automotive trends such as hot rods, classic customs and off road and there has been reaction against this new proposal, so lets do it with the anime too
And now, it shall begin…
DUH DUH DUH!…
Japan’s Revolution against Tokyo’s politicians for years of Otaku oppression, will they succeed, just simply give it a few months & find out…
Damn japs have you learned anything from CoD MW2 or BlackOps yet…
IS IT THAT FUCKER HARD TO 360 or 720 or even do a 1080 No Scope on that bitch with a Pie or a Sushi Roll?
oh please, you saw it coming!,otakus kept asking for more ecchi and ero anime,it just couldn’t keep up like this, anime shouldn’t be just otaku oriented,which is the main income of it,people got tired of boring emo stories and low quality animation,which is an consecuence of production cost cut, which they didn’t wanted to spare… sounds logical right?
cut cost,use less frames per second,make a simple minded story for fapping morons(i’m sorry i just don’t see any drama all over this mess) and it’s a sell, sadly I grew up, I no longer see anime as a form of art, rather as a perverted way of entertainment.
THANK YOU OTAKU FOR DESTROYING A MAINSTREAM ART. ^_^ YOUR’S TRULLY,THE FUCKED UP FUTURE.
This was inevitable