Aki Sora Banned – “We Can No Longer Depict Incest”
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Apr 22, 2011 18:05 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Champion Red, Incest, Mangaka, Politics, Tokyo
Incest manga Aki Sora has fallen victim to Ishihara’s ban on raunchy manga, with the distraught author reporting that it was its depiction of an incestuous relationship rather than any erotic content which has caused all further publication to be prevented.
The manga, formerly serialised in Champion Ichigo Red and adapted into an anime, was due to be reprinted – but author Masahiro Itosugi angrily reports that there is now no hope of this:
“It’s confirmed – after July there can be no further printing of Aki Sora.”
“To have what you most feared actually put in front of you – it’s hell. Pure hell. I don’t know whether to be angry or sad.”
“I don’t know, but in 5 or 10 years reading or writing about incest will likely become a literal taboo. We’ve certainly reached a historical turning point.”
“There is only one issue – ‘incest.’ It’s not, as many people were thinking, because of the erotic content. Please take heed of that.”
“An ancient literary theme will be sealed off. This terrifying prospect is something I’m actually experiencing.”
In the best tradition of secret policing, he cannot even reveal whether it was his publisher Akita Shoten or the Tokyo government which decided to ban the title:
“Regarding who’s decision it was, I cannot say. Sorry. All I can say is that it wasn’t my decision.”
As the publisher has, in the peculiar and utterly dishonest Japanese usage of term, “voluntarily” refrained from reprinting the title (likely with foreknowledge that it would otherwise be banned otherwise), the Tokyo government has also kept its censorship policy firmly behind closed doors.
Ishihara’s defence against accusations that he is stifling freedom of expression that “I’m not saying you can’t write these manga” is thus technically correct – his administration is merely intimidating publishers into not publishing the titles, whilst leaving writers the option to freely express themselves without being able to find a publisher or sales outlet.
Technically it would still be possible to republish the manga as an 18+ pornographic title, but as shops do not stock non-pornographic titles amongst their ero-manga and the publisher would likely have to be changed, this is in all probability a practical impossibility – in effect the ban now only allows pornographic portrayals of incest whilst making any more literary depiction commercially unviable.
The fact that the ban is Tokyo-only but the cancellation of a publication effects the entire country of course has no bearing on the decision – anything banned in Tokyo may as well be banned nationally.
Absurdly, it would be possible to create a novel or live action film adaptation and sell that with no restrictions as well – a fact Tokyo’s rape novelist governor likely knows only too well.
Champion Red Ichigo itself is said to be facing cancellation as a result of the ban, suggesting there could soon be a mass purge of erotic material from mainstream manga.
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Well this certainly won't do.
well incest was one of my biggest interest in japan, allthough it was more a fantasy
Fantasy? I guess the new book "Harry Pervert and The Forbidden Chamber of Siblings" not going to be published in Japan.
It's exempt. The law only applies to drawn works. If it were a manga, it would most definitely be banned.
Incest or not, anythin involving Akineechan is sheer win. Let me propose a solution, focus on Nami and Kana.
Only because I know you won't take kindly to this insult in particular: Ishihara, you're a fucking inbred.
BOOOO...
This makes me sadface, even though I'm not that much of a fan of incest.
Well, shit.
Hey. I was reading that. Not cool.
OMG! - with all the EarthQuakes, Radiation, and Economic issues Japan is dealing with it's sooo cute to see someone Bitching they can't make money off their Fantasy Incest Manga.
Incest is DISGUSTING!! It never turns out well. Incest = Inbred kids. How is this remotely sexy? Did anyone tell the author that Manga's about Farm Animal fuckin' is wide open?
First they came for... ugh just forget it.
It's fiction. The drawbacks of incest only apply if the author chooses.
Looks like you're the only one to be normal here...
Sankaku Complex's community never ceases to amaze me.
I fail to see your point when it is fiction.
People being blown apart by bombs is disgusting and yet we see it in movies all the time.
yeah
but they cant ban violence
its a much bigger plot driver than fucking your sister
Just bring back Junichiro Koizumi...
Those people in Japanese Goverment are the example of fag. How can manga ban bring good effect to the community.
I am not saying incest is good in RL but this is in manga, fantasy. Someone has the rights to imagine don't they? It is not like all the people who read incest manga will turn into doing those things.
Even in criminal case mostly the one that causes violence is not the person who read manga with violence. The person who can not differentiate between RL and FICTION should not even dare to call themselves a manga lover!!!
"Incest is DISGUSTING!!"
Hey dude reality check. It's not real.
that makes it ok?
Yeah! Let's ban everything you personally dislike or find disgusting. That's surely the way to go!
jesus is not real
jesus is disgusting.
BAN JESUUUUSS!!!!
lets ban all movies together
missing the point there guys
sign me up
"Incest = Inbred kids"
Really, I mean REALLY? Shit, I thought incest = win.
If you're shooting for pregnancy, Incest is a little questionable.
If all you're shooting for is kinky sex, however, then it's not a question but an answer.
Oh I don't know.
John Adams seems to have done alright, same goes for Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, then there's Nobusuke Kishi, Naoto Kan and Eisaku Sato.
And that's just a brief overview. Bach, Grieg, Stravinksy, Wells can also be mentioned btw.
They need a new publisher, that would be located outside Tokyo, and those interested in a manga would have to mail-order it. With some good titles, it might actually work, or do they rely so much on a random customers? Only difference is they would have to sell it in bulk to cut postal service costs a little. I can even imagine manga vending machine located in a Tokyo, where customer would preorder manga via a cellphone, paid for it, and they would deliver manga to the machine, and with right code he would get what he ordered. Because payment would be made outside of a Tokyo, it would not be selling, because buyer would become an owner of manga when he pays for it, and by that time it would not be located in a Tokyo, and vending machine would serve only for delivery of his own belongings. Even those younger 18 could order, because if they pay for it, they become owners, so it is not that someone in Tokyo gave it to them or showed it to them or sell it to them, so Ishihara's law would not be violated. Only drawback is that they would have to wait for it, because if they buy it, they just could not grab another copy which is already in Tokyo. They own it when they pay for it, and having it delivered is legal.
Damn, and I was enjoying this one too. Sadly I don't think that fkker is gonna stop here, he's gonna move onto his next ploy to remove something from manga, the only question is, what is his next target?
It be Mecha or the Undead....
Or remove manga entirely so that he can brainwash all the kids and trun them into Ultra-Nationalists and kickstart WWIII.
Remind me to nuke Japan if ever that happens.... If there is no manga then let's just waste the damn place already....
I don't really see what the big deal is. 18+ topic material belongs in the 18+ section. Stores are just going to need bigger 18+ sections now to accommodate the new category of material being pushed over there by the "ban."
Or, like Artefact suggested, the publishers can give up and make ero-manga since it's going there anyhow.
as i wrote in a different post. The problem is not in the 18+ rating, but with the ADULTS ONLY rating.
this is the same as 'R' rated films vs 'X' rated films. Many stores don't have an adult only section!
I wonder how Ishihara comes to know these. Is he reading them himself? Imagine him going into a shop and: "Hmmmm lets find something bannable (trollface)"
He and Aya Hirano do it every Tuesday, wearing each other's clothes.
Freaks people the fuck out.
... just what does Hirano Aya have to do with this shithead? I understand hating on Ishihara but bringing Aya into the picture is uncalled for.
Simple: They're both trolls.
If you didn't know that, you should lurk more.
Aw nuts.
ONORE ISHIHARA!
Somewhere in a church in the American Deep South, a priest shakes hands with a Rabbi...
"Good good!! Now it will be easier yet again for us to build churches and synnagons to whitewash and westernize them yeller savages. I get the sheep, you keep the money and keep fornicating Ishihara up his rear to control them damn media, my big nosed friend!!"
Jews: Proving Hitler Right Since 1945.
so true.
This makes me rage as well. Aki Sora was one of my favorites. Bannig a work the describes something as natural as incest is simply inhuman.
Look guys, I'm getting sick and tired of things getting banned and people keep shoving it away and say there is nothing to worry and I shoudn't care.
I do care. and so should you. Becuase it's things that we all love that's getting away.
And they ARE getting away, so stop covering your eyes and ears.
It is time to do something about it, for real.
Indeed, the witch hunt isn't only on Japan, it is all around the world, everywhere you hear on news about something banned or removed because of moralists, they simply don't care if it's fiction, just about what they think it is wrong.
And these same dinosaurs keep getting their hands into the power, it's funny how democracy works. You only choose who will be there, you can't control anything after this.
Core to enlighten me what the jewish religion has to do with this?
Also, Hitler was a jerk. A big one.
Better than George Bush -
They have Bio Weapons!Lets kill people because we're the USA!
Oh they dont have anything...But who cares.
At least we killed people!!!
killing people, or fucking with my favorite past time... yea... MY PASS TIME IS MORE FUCKING IMPORTANT.
sorry to anyone who knows someone, not heard of someone (as in, my grandpa, i never seen, met or knew of, or exist in the same time they did), actually fucking knew them who died in the holocaust.
well....I'm FUCKING RAGING!!!!! I LOVED Aki-Sora...Ishihara you Cuntsucker!!! excuse my harsh language, but I am very upset just as many of you are. (keep it cool, keep it cool) Um, does this mean no more OVA's as well? I seriously hope not.
What are you talking about... No ones dying to from this ban.
Sigh...it's amazing how much weeaboos idolize the Japanese, yet whenever Japan does something against their ideal version, it's "the westerners fault". The Japanese unfortunately created this situation themselves, accept it.
Aww...looks like I offended one of them. Ha.
This has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with politics, you racist sack of shit.
Chill dude. Let them be. Teenagers these days think bashing religion is always cool even if the specific situation doesn't call for it. They'll grow out of it.
You must be really naive if you think that those religious groups like Souka Gakkai and the Unifying Church are not pressuring Ishihara and his company to ban everything nice that Japan ever had.
@15:20
Those groups don't have as much influence as paranoid people like you like to believe...
Hey Ishihara, take your opinions about everything, take your recent election victory, take your achievements, take your ban, roll them up into a ball, turn that sumbitch sideways, and stick it straight up your candy ass!
What would happen if people now started publishing rape/incest novels like pure fuck, then some politican would want to ban that. How would Ishihara react to that?
fecil seguro saca una ley que lo proteja a el si es tan descarado que lo haria
pero no es mala idea prohibanlo a el tambien ya que si su obra es obsena deberia entregar toda ganacia lograda en ese tiempo a fundaciones pro ayuda no
seria justo
Zero
LMAO GM you forgot to say the "take you rape novels" part. Okay, maybe I'll shove them up his ass for him.
are you the peoples champ
The RAW GM is probably The Rock himself.
I feel sorry for the old guy, he has NO idea how much of a shitstorm he's creating, look at these guys, they don't even live in Japan.
What about all the rape crap HE wrote!?
To hell with all these nonsenses created by that eatshithara!
you mean "i-shit-hard-rocks"?