Opponents of censorship have been disappointed by the LDP’s failure to disavow its efforts to ban much anime, manga and games with vague and overly sweeping new restrictions on child pornography, as a final verdict on the new law has now been put off until autumn.
Activist mangaka Ken Akamatsu explains the current situation, which under Japan’s arcane parliamentary procedure essentially amounts to a stalemate which mildly favours ban opponents:
The current session of the National Diet has concluded. Because of the fight within the LDP between proponents of the ban and those who urge caution, in the end the bill remained under deliberation when the session ended.
It is unfortunate we could not see the bill abandoned, but I’d like to think it will at least take some revision to win over the more cautious members.
We will continue to protest this in order to get creative works explicitly excluded.
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As for what follows, although it is still “under deliberation,” in reality it will not be discussed again at all until the autumn session.
We need to fire up opposition to the bill in that time!
Oh not again, Why do they even dare to consider anime manga and novels would be such a dangerous thing to watch/read really.. I grew up with reading and watching and have been doing so for past 20 years, That ban would greatly affect future releases on both existing anime/episodes and new ones in the making, l♥♥i ban? so no more anime with even young girls so we would have to watch future anime with mature women instead sheesh..
And really it is bad as it is for the future stuff
with a law like that but what about the existing
anime out there? Removed from the web, Already
plenty of hentai sites/videos been removed.
Sure i do not watch tentacle stuff but i like
the brother/sister stuff and it’s cartoon
animated sex how is that bad or worse then real
childporn wich is actually a real issue.
Japan grew up with stuff and genres like those
and now the old people want to destroy a legacy
and make all us otakus angry who watch and buy’s
alot of dvd’s. Praying here that the power of
otakus lolis and authors them self can scrap that bill
once and for all!
How the f♥♥k is censoring lolicon going to stop the pedophiles that are molesting girls in trains? NOTHING! They dont care about law. its the same crap as the gun control debate in the US
Quick somebody! Anybody! Get me a powerful magnet!
I’m looking over at my shelf and I see a LOT of anime that could spell trouble for me if this ban passed.
3 things :
1>There should be no restrictions or censorship on ANY FICTION that does not involve real children. That means all manga/anime should be legal.
2>Nudity by itself should not be considered as porn. Porn is an act of sex. Nudity by itself is not sex even if it can be sensual.
2>Age of consent should be 13. There is a difference between children and teen-agers.
Lol Japan is killing it’s own media industry just to appeal to some biggots in the west and a femanizi?
Come on Japan. US just passed same-sex marriage okay but now your afraid of cartoon lolis in manga and anime? Lame. Too much listening to Bill.