Top late night anime broadcast Tokyo MX has said it may stop showing anime with “extreme” content as a result of Tokyo’s anime/manga ban, and even goes so far as to say it will no longer be offering jobs to anime fans.
Tokyo MX’s management has this to say in an interview:
“MX broadcasts a lot of late night anime containing panchira and other ecchi material.
As our station has a deep connection to the Tokyo government, we can’t ignore their wishes, so with the harsher law there is the possibility that we will have to refrain from broadcasting more extreme anime.”
The station’s management even goes on to say it no longer wants to employ anime fans as a result of the law, and is considering discriminating against them in its hiring process:
“We’re a popular employer amongst student recruits as we are so strong at broadcasting anime.
However, now we are thinking we should no longer offer jobs to students who express an interest in anime in their applications.
Of course, we won’t just tell them ‘anime fans need not apply.’ Rather, we’ll ask them something like ‘if you took a foreign friend to a tourist spot, where would you take them?’
If they answer ‘Akihabara,’ we’ll be able to consider whether we really want to employ them.”
Anime fans are now being denied jobs as a result of the law – all thanks to the hatred Ishihara and his geriatric cronies bear for anything popular with the young.
The article also wryly remarks that it might be better just to ask them whether they are for or against the ban and deny them employment based on that.
Of all the “anime-friendly” stations (essentially a handful of Tokyo and Osaka stations), Tokyo MX had the best reputation for broadcasting large amounts of late night anime in uncensored form, making its potential loss quite a blow to anime fans.
The actual impact on anime producers is harder to predict – the business model for late night anime is to use TV distribution to promote disc sales, and stations pay only a nominal fee or are actually paid to show the anime, with the anime production costs coming almost exclusively from disc sales.
As a result, the restrictions the law places on selling the actual discs is rather more problematic – and so far it is not even clear what these restrictions will entail.
Meanwhile, not so much as a peep of protest or calls for “voluntary restraints” are heard when Tokyo stations broadcast such edifying spectacles as a trio of hot porn stars engaged in a lesbian threesome…
Update: Tokyo MX is denying it intends to discriminate against otaku in its hiring process, although whether they are to be believed is another matter…
Update 2: Tokyo MX now claims the report is a complete fabrication, although the rag in question has yet to offer a retraction.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooo....oh wait I just download them for free.
This ban is really getting on my nerves. I will stick with AT-X. AT-X is better anyway.
Oh yeah, I love the Kirino and Kuroneko mizugi pic.
Same. As a satellite station, they shouldn't have to comply to domestic terrestrial broadcast restrictions. AT-X's business may even skyrocket if all the other terrestrial stations limit what they show.
It's a restriction on "distribution" to minors in Tokyo, so it could certainly be interpreted as affecting AT-X if they were so inclined.
Let's hope that AT-X has the balls to resist any intimidation attempts.
Even if the ban was meant to discourage NEET and hikikomori behavior, it seems counter-intuitive if otaku are denied jobs due to the ban.
Vince McMahon would make a great president, even if he's not Japanese. He should take over Japan.
They can just say they only take subscriptions from adults (which probably is what they're doing already anyway) and the ban would be effectively circumvented. Of course that would require them to actually have at least a bit of backbone.
Vince McMahon would make a great president, even if he's not Japanese. He should take over Japan.
Mr. Anon RAW GM, are you even so sure of that? Mr. McMahon is going to make things worse by turning everything in Japan into PG. It is bad enough that WWE became PG. He is going to do it for the money. He is going to be just as bad as Ishihara.
AT-X has its headquarters in Tokyo, though. That, if anything, should, unfortunately, place it under the same inane restrictions.
AT-X is a pay channel; I'm not sure that people under 18 can even sign up for AT-X. In any case, they can just put that clause in their contracts and not have to worry about the ban. It's just like HBO or the Playboy channel here, I think.
this is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets any better...
Just hope that Ishihara would not molest AT-X...
They'd fire anti-satellite missiles to purge the unclean anime.
Tokyo MX is down ?
We still have AT-X
When you think you were finally figuring out the japanese way of thinking...
BOOM. Appears something to defy everything you learned and believed until now.
What? No word from 2ch about this? I'd have thought they'd be actively spreading word to possible applicants, and organizing boycotts of the station in question (if they actually do pull their late night anime anyway).
Well...how many people on 2ch actually have/want jobs? I can't help but think of them as people who might not get out much.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe" - especially the Japanese Universe - "is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
totally discrimination.
it's nothing to do with employee interest if they said they are fan to anime.
government is more interest to 3D than 2D
it went too far
It's because of you stupid perverted freaks who'd rather dwell in your 2D fantasy than live real lives that this ban came to be.
Serves you right HAH!
working anime fans still paying the tax.
not all of them are hikikomori
GO back to fuck you mother and father and stop trolling
that's funny coming from someone who keep coming here to bash.. you must have a very extreme and exciting live..
I would love to fuck him and his God up with my Blades of Chaos/Athena/Exile.
Yeah, go ahead Lamberto wannabe. Dwell in your fantasy. Chaos Blades, yeah right. They don't exist, moron.
Yeah and you're still after Real Lamberto's dick even though he's not bothering you, huh Anon 00:06?
Alright I don't get it what jobs are there for otaku if they want to work for them?Assistants?And why would otaku want to go work for them?
Kirino wouldn't be smiling if she read this...ecchi anime is becoming an endangered species...
Well, it's not surprising ecchi anime is being targeted given the ban, but not giving jobs to anime fans? Is the government trying to turn them into NEETs? This must be a conspiracy!
I can imagine what it's like in the news station in years to come.....:
Next in the news, multiple suicide as close as 1000 in numbers, occured throughout Tokyo, all with suicide notes that are similar. Most are read, "I wasn't able to find a job after 10 long years of searching and was fired from every job I got after a few days when the company found out I watch anime. My family will be suing Ishihara and the government because the banned anime and causing us otaku to get no basic human rights of getting a job."
In another news, the number of NEETs have increased 50 times than it previously was in 2010. Interviews with these NEETs have pointed us to one thing, Ishihara, as companies denies jobs to those who are interested in anime and thus unable to get a job.
This just in, Ishihara was found dead in his office with a colored photocopy of...the perpertrator's butt and stapled to his face. Police and the government are very confused and saddened to his death...wait, another one came in, right as soon as we announced his death, hoards of NEETs and otakus came rushing out of their rooms and flooded the streets, they appear to be...celebrating something...no wait, they're celebrating Ishihara's death while throwing rotten tomatoes at his pictures!!
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Or something like that...
Ishihara, You cold blooded bastard!! I'll tell you what I think of Law 156:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nz9-NWdsis&feature=related [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nz9-NWdsis&feature=related]
LOL! that's what i would do.
That was some funny shit tho.
I approve
Tokyo late night anime broadcast= 30 min. of blank screen + soundtrack. Ishihara invents radio!
"Ishihara re-invents radio!" fixed.
I feel more like Ishihara invents a time machine because I can't believe the retarded and backwards way of thought they're having in Tokyo; you know, of the supposedly most advanced cities in the world?
Big deal about the employment restriction... as if all anime fans are dumb to the extent of not spotting a fishy question.
1. Do you have any prior experience with working at a TV broadcast company?
A: *scribble scribble*
2. What's your motivation?
A: *scribble scribble*
3. If you took a foreign friend to a tourist spot, where would you take them?’
A: *scribble...* Wait... What?! *check application form* No... no, no words saying "Tourist guide"
agreed
I'd write Kyoto
to take them to KyoAni HQ
I'll write "NOT TOKYO because of the anime ban."
This is bullshit. Is it something I hate, that would be disposing someone just because of their interest.
This Ishihara guy really affected a few stuff now.
Go to DMC
i'd write "tokyo tower", with the hidden motive of watching flocks of schoolgirls =)
Pfft, I'd just rape the fukken bitch tower 11 times per second.
Johannes Krauser II have something to say about that while he hands you b33r.
Nakano Broadway :)
Clearly they are looking for you to write down 'Konata's House'
@ Japan's Otaku:
Tell me now, is there man among you here?
Is there one who will stand up and try to fight?
load your shotgun
load your shogun, might have more effect.
Fire it and it has an effect.
you are talking about Japanese otakus here
No one.
They'll just keep on blaming foreigners all day long on 2ch or some site, while wiping that cum off the tip of their stinky tiny dicks after fapping to some loli porn and stuffing that cake they bought for their 2D girlfriends into their faces, like they've been doing for the past decade.
They ain't got no balls. They won't get out of their houses to spend just one day in every 5 years to line up and vote. They can't even change their own lives for the better. What makes you think they'd influence the political climate of the whole damn city? Let alone the entire country!
Fuck it all. There will be other countries picking this up, as we can see from some talented non Japanese manga style artists. If the Japanese themselves won't stand up to protect it, then we as foreign observers shouldn't give a fuck either.
Hah. Even if we stood for them, they'll just tell us to mind our own business.
It's not about finding good help, but finding those who genuinely need it. Add the "GLORIOUS SAMURAI SPIRIT" from their culture into the works and you've got far too much wasted talent.
Now, with all due respect, who says that these people do not 'get out to vote'.
Personally, I'll be blunt: STFU unless you have been following EVERY SINGLE Otaku every day to say what they do and do not do.
Since the Japanese have no balls, it falls to the foreign otaku to put a bullet in that cocksucker's head. Any volunteers?