Anti-censorship mangaka Ken Akamatsu reports that the LDP is likely not only to quietly drop their loli ban for lack of support, but will go so far as to say it should be “reconsidered.”
Ken Akamatsu, who has been consulting with lawmakers and is presumably very much in the know with respect to the ban’s formal passage through the Diet as well as its far more important informal support through the factions of the LDP, tweets thusly:
Regarding the ban, it looks as if the LDP has just about formed the consensus that the bill should be formally sent back for reconsideration rather than just abandoned.
What is significant is that contents of the bill will be reconsidered after the current parliamentary session in this case, so what happens afterwards is the important part.
However, some are also saying the power balance has shifted and they won’t resubmit it for some time.
Assuming he is correct, it represents a major if not total victory for the ban’s opponents, though in the opaque face-saving form preferred by legislators.
However, the content of any future revised versions of the ban and the dogged persistence of its proponents in endlessly resubmitting it suggest long-term vigilance is the only path to ultimate victory.
If this is implemented, everything is going to change. This is going to affect not just l♥♥i’s, but all the genres.
And with this, the bill is in Limbo. However, until China stops screwing with the Senkaku Islands, giving the Japanese people the frame of mind to vote back in the DPJ, this could come up again with a vengeance.
Ken Akamatsu is GOD.
Damn you Akamatsu, stop fooling around with politicians and get back to work on Negima. People will start believing your input actually has any weight on what politicians decide to do or not.
You are just a lazy self-important drunk with dreams of editorial greatness who couldn’t ever get a single decent adaptation of any of your works. You wrote yourself into a corner with Negima and then dropped it with the worst end in the story of manga, betraying followers of your story for more than nine years.
You can’t even finish a major story properly (and the end of Love Hina was telegraphed from chapter one), so don’t start pretending you are an ace of politics. You are just background noise at best in the talks of the power shakers.
Stop talking s♥♥t and get back to work on what you messed up, delusional little s♥♥t.
His political causes have more merit than his series.
How about you DO something about it, delusional shithead? What, you can’t? Shut the f♥♥k up.
I don’t live in Japan, you retard.
Whelp, here’s hoping the next time it gets submitted it will finally be a bill that renders illegal child pornography proper WITHOUT doing collateral damage to one of Japan’s largest creative industries.
Then again, knowing the track record of these weirdos, they’ll probably strategically remove the bit about actual kiddy porn while retaining all the bombastic, artist-slaying white noise surrounding it. Wouldn’t be the first time.