Bill 156, known under such names as Nonexistent Youth Bill Ver.2, Nonexistent Crime Bill and the Anti-Anime and Manga Bill, was passed in full voting session of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.

Self regulation will be mandated from April 1st and sales regulation enforcement will being from July 1st of 2011. While the amendment does not specify the status of previously published books, specialists believe reprinting of titles published in the past will now be subject to the new restrictions after the above dates.

As you already know, Tokyo already has the power to designate anything that is too sexually stimulating for minors OR too sadistic for minors OR too likely to cause criminal acts among minors OR cause suicide among minors as “harmful material”, and force such material to be treated as adult only material.

With the passage of Bill 156, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will have the additional power to restrict any manga, anime and video games (but not live photography works) that feature any sexual acts that would violate criminal codes or Tokyo ordinances OR sexual depictions between close relatives who could not legally get married to be treated as adult material IF they are presented in “unjustifiably glorified or exaggerated manner.”

To see complete details of the bill, go here.

This is a sad day for anime and manga and video games, but the fight will continue. With the Big 10 manga publishing companies up in arms, the issue is unlikely to fade away any time soon.

I also believe the democratic process suffered a major setback as well. Tens of thousands of formal petitions, large numbers of phone calls, truck loads of letters, and enough email traffic to overflow many legislator’s email servers were reported. As I understand, the vast majority of these were in opposition. Over the next few weeks, we’ll find out more about the numbers involved, but I believe this bill’s legislative process suffered several key missteps that taints its legitimacy.

Will the world end tomorrow? Will anime and manga die after July of 2011?
No, it won’t.

I’ll try to put together a Q & A soon, but please understand I can’t do it right away.
I’m not getting paid for doing any of this and this is really putting a strain on my work and real life.

But something I do worry is that the misconception that Japan is nation were any and all sexually explicit hard core pornography is unregulated and that child sexual abuse photographs and films (i.e. child porn) are pumped out of Japan will be very damaging unless it kept in check.

If you come across articles like that, I encourage people to write and tell its authors that is a very biased and not very truthful statement to make. Unless people question such reporting, it will become accepted as fact.

I’ve covered that subject here.

In the meantime, this is a moment to remember that even in the darkest moments of a raging storm, you have to keep calm, remain vigilant and keep hope. The purpose of censorship is to instill fear, but fear is something we can fight all on its own.

Src :http://dankanemitsu.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/tokyo-assembly-passes-bill-156-anti-anime-and-manga-bill-is-now-law/

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While you can suggest a minor difference in terms of currency and the extent of the bill's sweep, I believe this thread is already housing the discussion of this issue.

That said, I suggest looking at the typical Japanese legislative process. Nothing unusual or particularly baffling occurred during the passage of this legislation. It's par for the course with Japanese politics, heck, more thought may have gone into this particular bill than with most Japanese legislation. Calling it an affront to democracy or whatever just displays a gross misunderstanding of the Japanese political system, which in many ways is still developing as a functional democracy, rather than a statist one-party system, which is honestly surprising, seeing how much activism the author of that particular blog seems to be espousing.

And no, it's not goodbye to those archetypes. Please, someone, for god's sake, just read the fine print. Nothing is eliminated- it just would become theoretically unviable in certain markets should the government chose to enforce parts of the bill. Anything goes for 18+, and the traditional rules apply outside of Tokyo's city limits. These are really nothing more than minor inconveniences...

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In Tokyo.

Perhaps the animanga/otaku society should just move to a different city :\

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 😐      bye bye  to all adult - mature - yaoi-yuri-ecchi- shtacon - lolicon mangas 

In Tokyo.

Perhaps the animanga/otaku society should just move to a different city :\

You know, it wouldn't be hard for the publishing industry to move out of Jinbouchou and 15 kilometers east to Chiba -_-;;.

If you take a train, you can get out of Tokyo's city limits within about half an hour no matter where you are in the city. Well, except for maybe Hachioji and way out there in the middle of nowhere... they're close to the edges but the trains are infrequent.

If the industry wanted to it could totally distribute outside of city limits, lose few sales, and wave the middle finger at the metropolitan government. This law is all bark and no bite.

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Nvm, this really isn't a big deal, it doesn't change anything for those who can already get it legally and for those who shouldn't it might be a bit of an inconvenience.
Nothing changes, at least yet.
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