Imouto Paradise Banned for “Glorifying Incest”

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The Tokyo government’s decree that Imouto Paradise 2 is unhealthy literature has been announced as being because the manga “improperly glorifies sexual activity between close relatives,” prompting Kadokawa to “voluntarily” withdraw all copies of the manga from sale.

Kadokawa says the recall “is to prevent undue bother for retailers,” and has cancelled all further shipments as well – an unfortunate decision given what a boon to sales an official stamp of incest glorification could be in future.


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    Comment by Anonymous
    02:42 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    But fo the pedo takus is it bad, They have the rigor watcth her software porn with childrens

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    Comment by caiooa
    05:12 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Except, it's a thing called fiction. You can't sue someone for creating a character that infringes the law in their heads, or in a book/movie/comic/whatever.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:47 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Porn in fiction is too porn, children in fanservice is very bad, why a Loli and not q adult woman.

    Comment by Anonymous

    No, children in fanservice is NOT bad. It is past time to realize that children are sexual beings and that they ARE interested in sex with adults.

    Learned that as a child myself.

    You want to protect children from forced sexual encounters? Fine and goddamned dandy... but do not take away their right to consent to sexual activities away from them, they CAN do that in the real world.

    Just teach them from very young that if someone tries to touch them without their permission, that is W R O N G and they should immediately run to an authority figure and report that.

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:32 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    I remember as well that when I was a boy I dreamed about having sex ASAP as well... except with hot anime babes or women from playboy who would fall in love with me (or yeah, maybe with someone my age that I had a crush on in class, usually one of the more developed girls), not nasty and creepy older men like you probably are... why would anyone?! I'd imagine that if I was a little girl instead, just the thought would shock me to death, I can totally understand that. There's a reason why a young girl and a man only get together with these words: coercion, manipulation, or outright rape.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:51 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Art should not be subject to anyone's belief system outside of it's creator. You prude AmeriFAT.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:47 19/05/2014 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    This is why some mangaka should band together and put their borderline hentai manga Online with an affordable monthly subscription.

    Comment by Anonymous
    05:38 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Actually they should just stop selling all titles in Tokyo go elsewhere! This will cripple the economy if all manga publishers stopped selling anything in Tokyo people would not go there for anything.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:11 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Doubt it will 'cripple the economy' when those who still want to get the manga could just get it outside of Tokyo or have it mailed/couriered in to Tokyo. The Tokyo metropolitan area isn't exactly the world's largest area.

    Besides, I think this ruling concerns the manga's distribution throughout the country, not just in Tokyo.

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:50 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Don't they have like 1/5~1/4 of the Japanese population in Tokyo area?

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:42 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    @11:50 35mil out of about 124mil people, so more than just 5%, but again the Tokyo Metropolitan area isn't very large in terms of land coverage.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Tokyo_Area#Various_definitions_of_Tokyo.2FKant.C5.8D

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Tokyo-Kanto_definitions%2C_Tokyo_UEA.png [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Tokyo-Kanto_definitions,_Tokyo_UEA.png]

    As you can see here, it's barely 100km on its longest dimension, so regardless of where you are it would be at most 50km or so by train for you to get out of the area to go and buy your week/month's supply of manga; or have it mailed/couriered in.

    The increase in commuting or use of the postal/courier services would make up for the deficit in direct sales of manga. Japan's also the kind of country where, if one store out of a chain doesn't have something in stock or doesn't sell it themselves, you can have it ordered in from one of their other branches and they'll send it to the branch you were at or to your home.

    So really all that would happen is they'd inconvenience the residents of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, but not prevent them from getting their manga.

    Also, I think you overestimate the value of Manga in the area's economy... I highly doubt its absence would have a remarkable impact in the short term.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:45 19/05/2014 # ! Good (+0.8)

    And use a foreign host with no ip logging and a bitcoin payment system in place.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:46 19/05/2014 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    And before I forget, release everything uncensored. With file uploading confidentiality agreements & royalties dished out with bitcoin as well.

    That is how you say fuck you to Tokyo & Japan.

    Comment by Anonymous
    07:34 19/05/2014 # ! Drivel (-0.8)

    Yeah. I fucking hate those Japs... For Pearl Harbor.

    Comment by Anonymous

    Pearl Harbor deserved it.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:28 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    And who the fuck uses bitcoin these days? Find some other payment to work out.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:36 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    @08:28
    I believe it is a shitty format too, but the fact remains that it is popular with pirates to conduct their untraceable transactions. And since you do not want to make it easy for the cops to track down, it makes a solid pick to dish out royalties & membership fees.

    Comment by Anonymous

    If you hate them for that you clearly have no clue what the USA did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:27 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    This article is about manga not ww2 so please stop talking about Hiroshima and Pearl Harbour

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:57 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    At least Pearl Harbor was full of soldier, not civils you fucktard

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:57 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    I mean soldiers

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    Comment by Indy
    22:52 19/05/2014 # ! Good (+0.4)

    Dude, what happen between Pearl Harbor or Hiroshima/Nagasaki is just a war between two fractions, as simple as that. It has nothing to do with which side is right or wrong. If you decide to get involved in a war, get ready to defeat or defeated. Pearl harbor shows that japan's victorious moment, while Hiroshima/Nagasaki shows the opposites. That simple. There is no on is right or wrong in this war, just some hippies like you who tried to act smart by siding on one of them.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:55 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    In retaliation idiot.

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    Comment by Epsilon
    08:00 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Then why are you here, retard?

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:15 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Pearl Harbor was deliberately provoked. Read the McCollum Memorandom, you stupid fucks.

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:35 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    lol you guys are all fuckin twats.

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:56 24/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    lol! they just need to host the servers in a country where incest and uncensored porn is not a crime and there're plenty to choose, there's no need to make things complicated.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:23 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Some Mangakas had already done it because they are sick of drawing for magazine with strict guidelines, but those sites are all in Japanese and I think its pay for a small sum per chapter routine.

    Comment by Anonymous
    02:59 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Hopefully we'll see the heads of those responsible for such a law on pikes before too long, or at the least see a company with spine (in Japan? HA!) challenge the law and win. This law is no different from the laws in the middle east where "well, women not wearing burqas is unhealthy!"

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:29 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's Japan, don't expect any justice to be found in it.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:28 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Research shows that women without burqa are more likely to get skin cancer. Wear a burqa; prevent skin cancer.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:34 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Research also shows that women from the middle east are more likely to develop a D-vitamin deficit due to their bodies being covered up all the time.

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:16 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Damned if you do and damned if you don't, might as well do whatever you want and leave the rest up to fate. A middle ground is nice too.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:14 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Except there are pretty good reasons to not promote incest. I like incest manga as much as the next incest-manga-loving guy, but I can see how the genre could cause problems among easily-influenced teens.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:53 19/05/2014 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    So I'm guessing violent video games turn people into murderers too right? Cause that's the same kind of argument that they're making here. You know what, I don't like watching two guys make out, but I don't try and ban it because I think it's "unhealthy." That's what this law boils don't to - they're banning stuff because it makes them feel "ick" and they're doing it against a specific medium instead of all mediums (otherwise Ishihara's own novels would have been affected).

    You wanna know what else would be banned because of this law if it affected more than manga? The Bible. There's incest all up in that book, as well as abortions, murders, rape, etc. etc. So tell me, when are they gonna ban it? I think believing in imaginary sky fairies is "unhealthy" so let's ban it! Come on!

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:21 19/05/2014 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    If violent games make us violent, how come eroges don't get us laid?

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:02 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    LOL You sir deserve a medal for that comment

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    Comment by アーネスト
    00:40 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    I concur, That's exactly the correct logic/mindset Japan SHOULD have. However, ya know, you gotta keep appearances up. How would the Japanese government look, if they don't take some kind active stance in the entertainment industry, I mean it's not like they have anything better to, righttttttttttt.... On a more serious note, they should be worrying about other things...

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:36 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    YOU SIR ARE A FOOL, SO YOU RATHER PREFER INCESTRY THAN PARADISE RIGHT, YOU WILL GET WHAT YOU DESIRE BY GOD'S GRACE.

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:21 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Likewise, if "glorifying incest" lead to actual incest (since apparently it has been made the thought of the real thing glorious to us through such media), shouldn't there have been news of an alarming increase of incidents of incest in Japan over the past few years? Or at least an increase in rape against family members?

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:47 22/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    "SO YOU RATHER PREFER INCESTRY THAN PARADISE"

    what if they're one in the same thing? now what, St. Anonymous?!

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:56 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Anonymous, there is nothing wrong with incest in the slightest. Period, done with, argument finished. The whole 'genetic pollution' bullshit has been debunked by NUMEROUS studies among lower animals showing that genetic degradation would only happen after MULTIPLE (5+) generations of inbreeding and then, only if the people in question already had a disease/genetic defect that could come up if they mated with someone of the same race/ethnic group.

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:46 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    At the end of the day pretty much all modern and stupid arguments boil down to simply following antiquated ideas. If there was no genetic issue (which I do not know if there is, however you'd think British royalty would be a line of people with downs if it did) I do not see the problem. Even as someone who has researched it from an Anthropological standpoint. I do not have a sister nor do I want one, but I do not find people with mutual sibling romantic love to be gross.
    If it were not illegal I would consider them lucky, since at least they did not have to deal with the insanity that is finding a girl from another family who probably has several other men lined up for her to choose. At least that is the case in the U.S. currently, no such thing as romance, either dating around and pretending to be a big guy, or waiting for a woman to finish deciding which of the 50 guys she will pick to date. Dating your sister would be a nice way to bypasd this, then again if I had one I'd most likely find that notion to be quite disgusting on my end.

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:57 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Citations. Otherwise, shut up.

    Comment by Anonymous
    06:39 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    there is SOMEthing wrong with incest in the slightest. Period, done with, argument finished. The whole incestry bullshit has been declared a disgrace and stain to humanity, SO SHUT UP!!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:58 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Citation here :)))

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1748728/pdf/brmedj02314-0050.pdf

    Incest causes health deficiencies and retardation

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:54 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    There are numerous citations on Google, so please, shut up yourself and learn to web-search.

    The whole incest thing is a bunch of people trying to force their personal likes and dislikes of X and Y that causes them NO physical harm on others..... that it simply wrong, period and done with, argument finished FOREVER!

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:26 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    Remember, if women don't wear the burqa, and they're asking to get raped. And if they get raped while Married / Betrothed, then they're an adultress, and they most be stoned. Otherwise, abandoned and ostracized for the rest of their lives cause who in their right mind would want anything to do with a non-virgin that isn't one's wife?

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:42 20/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    a stripper in a club where muslims frequent. LOL

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:09 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    There is a manga of this? I thought it was a hentai game.

    Also, japanese companies need to grow some balls. You cant make something called, Imouto Paradise and expect no waves.

    Comment by Anonymous
    03:09 19/05/2014 # ! Neutral (0)

    they have obviously never heard of the term Wincest







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