Osaka’s manga ban is already in effect, and as the above list from a shop demonstrates, has already seen dozens of publications banned from general sale as “harmful publications.”
Unlike Tokyo’s ban, Osaka’s ordinance is mostly concerned with banning BL manga – with the Tokyo ban being extremely vague and covering everything from general manga to anime and games, the list there is likely to be much longer, and effectively national in scope due to the largest market and concentration of publishers both being in Tokyo.
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The banning disease is spreading :(
Well, fuck.
Run to Hokkaido.
as if it was safe there...
damn you, moralist faggots!
you made me stand up for BL manga and i never thought i would do that
for that alone i will feed you your own cocks
one day for sure...
Could this be the base where fujoshi and otaku rise and unite under a single banner?!
...
...
Nah. Who am I kidding?
They can always go underground..., welcome to black market!
Pssst! Hey you!
Yeah you!
Listen, *looks left/right* I've got with me some extra yaoi.
Better get it fast bro, cuz the lolis stock dried up yesterday.
You interested? I'll make'em cheap this time.
....is what I imagine after July '11.
They could always do somthing similar too what running with scissors did with there game postal...
though i suppose not too many people would actualy back the digital sales market if they can get it for free :/
i have a serious question here.
is this a shonen ai like ban, where even a hint of gay people gets banned, or is this a yoai ban where its obvious, or shown?
because the shonen ai, would effect a hell of alot more than a yoai, because isnt yoai like ones already a 18+ material?
i dont think either ban is good or fair, but one seams far more reaching than the other.
We'll, "seriously" from what you're asking: it's a ban on "harm publications" not people.
As Arte has already linked to the previous post on Osaka's decision, the ban is really vague as to what exactly is harmful, since it encompasses a wide range of publications.
And yes, yaoi (or yoai in your case) is deemed 18+ most of the time. Like Hentai and Ecchi terms, there's a borderline to what is dickteasing and not. /horriblepun
And err.... you seem concerned about the future of BL. *backs away*
It's official: Japan is sinking! Japan, start the election now before it's too late!
>>Yoshii-kun
"Pssst! Hey you!
Yeah you!
Listen, *looks left/right* I've got with me some extra yaoi.
Better get it fast bro, cuz the lolis stock dried up yesterday.
You interested? I'll make'em cheap this time."
I can sooo picture that...and can't stop laughing.
nah what i was wondering is what the osaka ban would actualy effect. because if it was a "ban" that just made it a law that anything that says 18+ or you know damn well shouldn't be in the hands of kids anyway, that i dont see a big problem, but if it effected other, like it apparently does, than i cant condone it.
Little problem, alidan.... not everyone agrees on what should be "18+" stuff. Personally, I am more worried about my daughters having unprotected sex than I would be about them getting hentai and even loli stuff online or in stores.
Would give me peace of mind that at least they are not sleeping with boys w/o birth control!
Run for the hills!
But take a couple of bishies with you in case you get ronery
Japan's use of the Ban Hammer is unruly, and entirely not the way the Ban Hammer was intended to be used. Someone must wrest their power over it away from them.
I say we invade Japan and instate a newer, less anti-otaku government.
the end of otaku love ended faster than 2012!
12:31 Speaks the truth Someday we will all want a turn
I shall stay in Akihabara
thank god
another IShithara guy
i wish there was a way to stop this but....*sigh*
You're right. This is as much news as the last 15 times they ran a piece on Miku popping up in the news in another country.
Old story recycled to feed on peoples fear of the ban and pump up hits to the site.
This is just fucked up, where will it be next, oh god I'm actually scared a little...
Please tell me there is some kind of hero to take out this virus known as the Banning Disease...
Where's Nurse Witch Komugi-chan when you need her the most?
Oh wait, she probably fell victim of the ban...
um Artefact? is there a way we can help organize a protest or similar?
the future of one's consumer goods is at stake
what can we do?
Absolutely nothing.
Your protest will fall over deaf ears in Japan, and the senile old men of Bureaucracy will remain unchanged.
Don't worry, once Japan has gutted the industry through complete retardation, it will find new life in Korea and China. It might take some getting used to, hearing Chinese or Korean on our subs instead of Japanese, but it will more or less be the same thing!
Fuck, you mean I have to learn _YET_ another language?
It get's quickly old after five...
But didn't many of us got into anime and manga because of the fact that it comes from Japan? I can't believe the many are going to to accept being defeated by the few, in this case the hypocrite, I mean the moralists.
Fuck that...just fuck that...manga and anime are what they are because the *Japanese* do it...if the Koreans or Chinese could produce decent anime and manga, the anime and manga markets would show it.
The Koreans to produce good Manhwa.
You never read Priest?
Thank god for China, the home of the free.
@gr8sk8r
"China" + "Free"
lol? I hope that was sarcasm.
We're doomed, DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMED!!!!!!
are you dumb? korea and china are a LOT WORST, koreans completely banned any kind porn or hentai stuff so do China!
we want japanese culture.
Blame the japanese, they don't want our help and will just chuck a big shitstorm at 2ch if we tried, and most likely blame us because of the rapelay in the US/UK media.
Even though they have their own heavy censorship to begin with. Seriously guys, japanese otaku are not someone you would consider friend material, they mostly hate us for no real reason.
@ anon 13:11
I'm full aware of their racism
my idea was strictly business and nothing more
I don't admire those who "hate me" I leave that job to the idiots
You don't seem to understand, no one is going to want help from a westerner, period.
and you're forgetting the fact that Arte can communicate with them and propose the idea to THEM! and let THEM do all the "heavy work" of protesting and what not...
...but then again it might fail anyway because old male Oligarchs STILL retain power over there despite it being the 21st century and all
No. It will fail because Japanese otaku or dickless cowards. Thats why they leech off their parents and are no-lifers.
japanese blame the westerners as they make rapeplay such a huge hits in media
But I had nothing to do with the rapeplay criticism, that was the work of the feminists and the moral fags.
Ummm, where exactly is 2ch located again?
are you also... a retarded? what make you think they *need* your help? ... If you are american you must know that your government are raping your rights since some time ago, why not *help* yourself first? lol the same in large part of western world.
if you think protesting in a website will do any effort you already lost, this battle is fought in another field.
the best place to form a protest i can think of is on facebook.
damn facebook! >:c
you guys are retarded, i'm playing the xbox
Stan, South Park
I lol'd
Maybe buy titles that may be effected by this ban in large quantities so that they see theres a market overseas for this stuff instead of it being an embarrassment, but fat chance for that to happen.
if only there was enough demand for the supply then yes it can work.....