Madoka Creator Uses TAF Award to Attack Ishihara
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 25, 2012 03:01 JST
- Tags: Awards, Eroge, Nitroplus, Politics, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Shaft, Tokyo Anime Fair
Gen Urobuchi, writer of both Puella Magi Madoka Magica and scores of adult games, has accepted an award for best screenplay from the 2012 Tokyo International Anime Fair – only to use it as an opportunity to force them to publish a condemnation of Ishihara’s efforts to destroy freedom of expression for the anime industry.
Urobuchi, or “Butch Gen” as he is also known, supplied a deliberately provocative acceptance speech, and was surprised to see the organisers actually published it – “Uwah! They really printed my acceptance remarks and profile in their pamphlet!”
The official acceptance speech for best screenplay writer, which is handily provided in both Japanese and English:
Urobuchi is referring to the fact that he cut his teeth writing for such luminary eroge brands as Nitroplus, Leaf and Type Moon – just the sort of unhealthy expression Tokyo has been attempting to stamp out (when its own mayor is not busy writing the stuff).
Despite being the event’s chairman, Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara only despatched his deputy to the event.
Although the tsunami largely took the wind out of the industry’s anti-censorship push, a fact which appears to have delighted Ishihara and his cronies, ACE is still going forward.
Reports from TAF 2012 itself allege that the event was poorly attended by both the public and the industry, and complain that the “international” component of the event referred solely to the vast numbers of Chinese companies in attendance (doubly ironic considering Ishihara was accused of making yet more racist remarks about the Chinese even as the event opened).
Most publishers appear to be quietly reserving their efforts for ACE, and with popular late night titles almost totally absent from TAF it would appear only another cancellation stands any chance of spoiling their success.
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ROW ROW
FIGHT THE POWAH!!!
powers to the peeps, powers for the dreams!
I don't need to row, my boat is motor powered.
You row anyway, and you make it go faster. The rule of cool overrides the rule of physics.
ROW ALL OF THE BOATS! with oars made of rockets and awesome!
ROW YOUR BOAT
GENTLY UP HIS ASS
Are you crazy? You don't know where that thing may have been!
I don't want to dirty my boat.
Oh come on, there's prolly enough semen in there to keep it afloat! After all, dude has to get re-elected somehow!
Nice Boat
Urobuchi You magnificent man!
He really deserves the title of Genius...
Someone get this man a beer, he deserves it.
I dunno about you, but I'm definitely calling the dude "Urubuchi the Mad Mastermind!" (a name that must be stated while cackling and in the deepest voice one can muster)
Bite that old fox in the ass alright.
Calling Shintaro Ishihara is an insult to foxes. He is more like an evil serpent pretend to do good...He reminds me of the character Danzo on the anime Naruto
Please don't insult poor evil serpents pretenting to do good, they don't deserve it.
He does He does
Ishihara deserves to have his head bitten by Charlotte!
That is the spirit, Godly creator of Madoka Magica! Show that old fossil who is the boss.
I demand an apology! Charlotte-chan would have a wicked tummy ache is she so much as tasted the vile puke that is Ishihara!
Atop of massive diarrhea.
good riddance charlotte!!
Fox? No. Foxes are typically seen as smart and elegant creatures.
He is more like a Tanuki.
But tanuki have massive balls.
Ishihara doesn't.
Only applicable if that Tanuki has down syndrome and a Hitler mustache.
He has the courage to express his disaproval against a goverment decision in public on his own.
respect
A toast to Gen, and to the freedom of lolis!
Not only lolis are under attack from Ishithara, you know.
But they're the most important part, right?
I dunno, do you really need a reason to attack a politician who think less than 1% of the population are "people"?
This comment pleases me!
Ishihara is a homophobe.
All the female main cast of Madoka are lesbians..
How appropriate for Urobuchi to slap the crap off Ishihara's face :3
they do nothing
Take your fucking yuri goggles off.
Wow, no shit?
Looks like i'm gonna have to purposely purchase his stuff out of sheer respect for the guy.
This man can have my wallet!
And my ax!
Urobuchi is a valiant man! More people should learn from his example!!
that's a really high quality translation.
Didn't know they had it in them.
my hero
The world's hero, just most people don't know it.
But he hasn't done anything his new rules meant zero the anime that's shown is the same, there isn't anymore censorship, the aubjects haven't changed alot of fuss over nothing.
I was there on the business days and I can say a lot of the people I talked to were pretty angry at Ishihara. I was pretty surprised at how openly people would take about it. Almost everyone is saying ACE is going to be the real TAF with most of the publishers being either absent or only having a small booth.
The attendance of this event is laughable, at best !
Cool move from Gen Urobuchi to use the prize received this way. Kudos to him!
Plus the presence of many Chinese's companies in this event only reinforce the idea that Ishihara isn't supporting Japanese's compagnies. That will also work against him. Nice!
For now anyway. But Ishihara will probably accuse the Chinese for siding with Lolis and Pedephiles in ACE when this is over.
You rule, Urobuchi!
I love you Gen Urobuchi! For writing Madoka Magica and for using this award to express your feelings toward the oppressors of free speech.
Go Gen-kun!
I hate madoka but in this time, I support madoka.
Urobuchi is not Madoka, he only created the anime
more like the creator of saya no uta
he didn't create teh animu, nerd