
Osaka’s manga ban is already in effect, and as the above list from a shop demonstrates, has already seen dozens of publications banned from general sale as “harmful publications.”
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Ishihara was spotted at C79, and seems to have been the victim of an encounter with the otaku in attendance…
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A pro-ban politician has outraged manga fans by publicly exposing and then ridiculing a BL mangaka who put her name to an anti-ban petition sent to him.
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Tokyo’s ban on sex in anime, manga and games is not even law yet, but already mangaka are reporting publishers refusing to publish works set in schools or featuring school uniforms, with previously published works even in danger of having their reprints cancelled.
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Tokyo’s governor Shintaro Ishihara is apparently not satisfied with just bashing manga and foreigners – in his latest published statements he calls homosexuals “genetically defective” and comments on what pitiful creatures they all are.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Dec 7, 2010 06:35 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Ero-manga, Eroge, Law, Loli, Otaku, Politics, Tokyo, Yaoi

Any doubts that the Tokyo government’s efforts to ban manga, anime and games from showing any sex (whilst leaving novels and film completely alone) represent nothing less than an expression of contempt for and an assault on Japan’s anime, manga and game industries have been dispelled in a series of astonishingly hostile remarks by the crazed geriatrics who run the city.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 24, 2010 06:01 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Comparison, Events, Fujoshi, Otaku, Seiyuu, Tales Series, Video Gallery, Yaoi

The refusal of an excited fujoshi audience to even acknowledge female seiyuu whilst the same crowd hysterically greets their male counterparts with an ear-splitting shriek of enthusiasm has been noted with some disapproval by fans.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Nov 22, 2010 03:55 JST
- Tags: Fujoshi, Gravure, Idol, Image Gallery, Mizugi, Oppai, Otaku, Pantsu, Yaoi

Idol and singer Risa Yoshiki, a self-proclaimed “rotten girl,” may well rank as Japan’s sexiest fujoshi, although her looks are certainly anything but nerdy.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 21, 2010 11:13 JST
- Tags: Amazon, Idol, IdolM@ster, Marketing, Moe, Namco Bandai, Otaku, Xbox 360, Yaoi

Rebellious IdolMaster fans who launched a boycott of the title over its removal of several girls and addition of several hot male idols have proven to be all talk – they are apparently buying the game up in droves.
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Ore no Imouto’s PSP spin-off “Ore no Imouto … Portable” is attracting attention for having rather more adventurous content than the usual generic anime visual novel, with players purportedly able to encounter a possible yandere ending and another involving a relationship with Kirino’s old man.
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Manga plagiarism seems to be getting lazier and lazier – the latest example actually succeeds in leaving watermarks on plagiarised photographs on the cover of the book itself.
However, perhaps more noteworthy than the plagiarism itself is the diligence of the people responsible for uncovering it.
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The interminable controversy over Namco Bandai’s decision to dump some of its girls in favour of some hot new male characters has given rise to some unfortunate scenes at a recent promotional event, featured on Japanese TV.
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