Even the Chinese have been complaining about the excessive levels of censorship Japanese anime and manga are now subject to, whether due to the attentions of Herr Ishihara or simply down to the prevalence of censorship marketing.
Some of the commentary from Chinese otaku:
“I’ve been checking out some old Japanese anime lately – I found something a little surprising. H scenes were all OK back then it seems. Honestly, it seems things were more liberal back then?”
“Right, they used to show boobs with no problem back then. Like in Lupin III and so on, despite it being the seventies they were shown. Now all you get is great beams of holy light flashing about…”
“They even had them in the first Gundam. But nothing in Seed? And always in OPs…”
“My first recollections are of scenes of Rei and Mamiya getting their tops ripped off in Fist of the North Star. They even showed that stuff on our TV without issue, despite cutting out loads of other stuff.”
“They were showing all that stuff fine in the nineties even here.”
“When did all the breasts start getting covered up by weird beams of light?”
“Japan’s TV anime censorship is getting worse and worse. I doubt they could even air Fist of the North Star now.”
Amongst Japanese otaku there is some debate as to whether increasing levels of anime censorship can be blamed on moral hysteria and persecution of otaku on the part of Japanese politicians and media, or simply on cynical efforts by studios to goad viewers into buying the disc release by cutting out all the juicy bits and merely pretending it has something to do with censorship.
Whatever the case, there does seem to be some awareness that when even Chinese feel compelled to complain about their censorship, there is something very wrong indeed:
“You can see it all on the disc release. This is all a sales tactic.”
“Japanese politicians are scum!”
“All those LDP politicians are trying to get anime and manga banned completely. The number of crazy politicians here is really increasing, they are totally nuts now.”
“Censorship these days is really bad though, you can’t even see normal panchira uncensored any longer.”
“Pay up and you can see it all, you filthy chinks!”
“Who cares what a bunch of dirty Chinese pirates have to say!”
“What right have they to an opinion when they just watch it all illegally!”
“How starved of ero are they?”
“This is all the fault of the LDP’s crazy Korean cultist supporters.”
“Late night anime is pretty amazing though… they may not show it directly like ero-anime, but the fetishistic way they present things is quite something.”
“You used to be able to see even Shizuka-chan’s breasts and pantsu without issue.”
“A few years ago, I remember being told by a neighbourhood mother of two who’d just seen a Yattaman remake that you don’t see that sort of thing at all anymore.”
“Kiss x Sis and Yosuga no Sora were the talk of our school, but our teacher just said that there was much more stuff like that before.”
“I don’t see a problem with boobs, but Yosuga takes things too far!”
“Japan is headed in a strange direction.”
“I really think the commercial reasons for censorship predominate now…”
“Qwaser and so on are packed with ero, but aren’t tlight beams just a ploy to increase DVD sales? They can’t just show anime for free.”
“TV used to be good, now it’s pure trash. No wonder viewerships are down.”
“Just look at late night Fuji TV – you can see all kinds of explicit [3D] bondage programming.”
“Terrestrial censorship isn’t just targeting anime though. If anything I think anime is getting off lightly.”
“After the LDP and Koumeito [minor Buddhist cultist party formerly in a governing coalition with the LDP] got into a coalition, the level of ‘voluntary restraint’ on TV got really severe, didn’t it?”
“Now they are in opposition they have become even more obsessed with censorship though… I’m really worried about what they’ll do when they get back in.”
“They are totally obsessed with child porn now, they’ll ban as much as they can.”
“I really do get the impression that their crazies have taken over since they got knocked into opposition.”
“Wasn’t the first piece of legislation they proposed after losing power a ban on ero?”
“Right. Although there isn’t much agreement in their party about anything.”
“Those net right wingers who support them are just as crazy as they are though.”
“Holy light is the right way of describing those beams…”
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For once, I think I agree with China.
Down with Ishihara and anime censorship!
Yeah, and it will be best if they stop their stupid censor
in AV and Hentai stuff too.
This. So fucking this. Hentai and AV censorship is the most absurd idea ever.
Can't believe I'm saying this but I applaud China for having the same opinion as us regarding censorship in anime and damning it. iShitHara can shove his ban and censorship up his ass sideways.
really, I can't believe it, but China's right for once.
F.ck censorship
Alright. Let's make something clear; we're not agreeing with them. They're agreeing with us. We've been against censorship for a long time now. From these posts it sounds like we're praising them for discovering something. It's good that they're also against censorship, but just wanted to make this fact clear.
So they pirate even the agreeing?!
@00:06: If I could, I'd upvote you to +2.0
Why we no can get +2.0, Artefact?
I'm pretty sure that, outside of neo-conservatives or religious extremists, NOBODY likes censorship, at all. It's not like Chinese otaku are some kind of trailblazers here. They are just expressing very common and popular anti-censorship sentiment.
This is just another example of why neo-conservatives suck cock and ruin everything.
You know that if even China is complaining about your nations censorship, you're censoring WAAAAY too much! China have had problems with google and newgrounds due to their censorship rules, so they're definitely censorhip-champions. :o
God if the pirated copy sales are down so are the original copy too.
Even AT-X is becoming sedated due to censorship! This needs freedom of showing boobies on TV!
It our otakuism ailles from china anyway,not the mainstream trash.
MASSACRE THE NAZI,WE WILL START THE REVOLUTION AND PUT THEM ALL ON THE GUILLOTINE
Some otaku hero need to send a sniper to kill this shit already.
FOR THE MOTHERLAND!!!!!!!!!!
nah, you kill him and they'll use him as a martyr for the cause of banning anything fun. you've got to ruin him and discredit everything he's done to this point instead.
But how could they afford someone like this if they spend all their money on BDs. I think we should all work together on this. 1$/¥/€ whatever per otaku and we'd be set.
just wait, an otaku with a crossbow is gunna hit him in the face and pantsu are gunna be tied to the end
Summon the legion oh demonlord.
Sigh... all aboard the hate train!
Agreee HATE CENSORSHIP
Whats all this hate against China? XD Let them be, its not like you are living there or have done anything to you or anything.
And yeah, fuck censorship! >:(
fak yeah!
A day had come..where we actually approve of Chinese actions.
Enough of sappy entry comment.
F**K censorship!
true... censorship in japan is iffy at best they will censor a close pantie shot but not a far away one wtf if your gonna censor at least be consistant otherwise don't censor at all unless its nudity at prime time get over it japan.
I'm glad to see that even the Chinese hate censorship as much as we do.
It's no secret that the ordinary Chinese hates censorship. They're always finding ways to get over the geat firewall their government made to access banned foreign websites. Which's why the government's always working hard on updating it.
This was a hilarious read.
Fuck censorship
Censorship isn't all bad.
A lot of mangas and animes do tasteful censorship - Keeps the allure in the scene, and in my opinion, improves the experience of the series.
All these recent beams of light are just stupid though.
“You can see it all on the disc release. This is all a sales tactic.”
And yet, there's still censorship in the BD/DVDs
maybe Ishihara attually as pervert and stingy as me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmc0vfEvqaA
no, it's not. ALL CENSORSHIP ARE BAD!
if people can't swallow those scene/comments, then STFU and GTFO.
I like how you fags claim that censorship is bad while you doing nothing about your government trying to censor the ENTIRE internet with the SOPA bill.
I like how you fags claim that censorship is bad while you doing nothing about your government trying to censor the ENTIRE internet with the SOPA bill
Shitty spelling and sentence structure is bad, too.
"All censorship is bad"
Repeat after me. "Is bad," not "are bad."
thx, i love heroes like you.
No no, All = Implies many thus are instead of is.
All censorship 'are' bad is the correct grammar
No, the correct grammar in the phrase would be "is", not "are". This is due to censorship being singular, not plural, even with the "all". If the sentence was something along the lines of "all forms of censorship", then "are" would be the correct word.
Grammer is not a class you've passed, is it?
There's a difference between tasteful depiction and censorship. One is there because it's more interesting - the other is there... OR ELSE.
well said
Amen to that!
Fuck iShitHara!
Fuck censorship
But this will be censored...
Uncensored OP is Uncensored.
last time I checked, no one like censorship, except the politicians. When it comes to Otakuism, the world is united
i like and support the censorship and I am not a politician.
no just a douche
An iShitHara fanboy, I see.
Fuck off or we skin ye alive.
Please guys, do not feed the troll... Especially one so ugly(obvious).
when the chinese complain that it ain't right you know somethings wrong.
We make better ruler,japan future is dark with all this.....
They probably cater to the right-wing minority who also happen to be the most vocal.
Actually, the right wing typically will choose freedoms over censorship - usually it's the left who lean towards using it as a means of control. But even then, censorship is something I've seen both the left and the right come together to oppose, so... I'm gonna say this a bit different.
I think it's the companies are doing it to sell discs, and are crying out "see, see? That nutjob with the tokyo manga ban is making us do it! We have no choice!". The war on Otaku probably has to do with it too, but they only really became a problem because anime started to cater more and more to those who buy the merchandise.