1st Manga to Be Restricted by Revised Tokyo Law Listed
14 years ago
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On April 14, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government presented the first specific list of titles that are being considered for restrictions under Tokyo's recently revised Youth Healthy Development Ordinance. The government presented the six titles during a meeting with the industry's Publishing Ethics Convention and Publishing Ethics Discussion Group. The revisions to the ordinance will go into effect on July 1.
The revision will expand the number of manga and anime that fall under "harmful publications," the legal category of works that must not be sold or rented to people under the age of 18. Erotic material was already restricted before the amendment, but the amended law will also restrict the sales and renting of materials that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government considers "to be excessively disrupting of social order."
The following titles were on Tokyo Metropolitan Government's list for planned restrictions:
Okusama wa Shougakusei (My Wife Is an Elementary Student)
Reason for designation: Child rape
[Tokyo Vice Governor Naoki Inose had shown this manga on television as an example of which manga should be restricted.]Aki Sora
Reason for designation: Incest
*[On April 21— one week after the government's meeting with the industry organizations — Itosugi had revealed that there will be no more printings of volumes 1 and 3 of this manga .] *Lovers & Sharing
Reasons for designation: Rape, incest, group rapeKoibito 8-gou (Lover No. 8)
Reason for designation: RapeHanamizawa Q-taro Jisenshu Hana-Hiyori
Reasons for designation: Sexual intercourse in schoolMidori no Kisetsu (Blue-Green Season)
Reasons for designation: Incest, sexual intercourse in school
Member14 years ago
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Why do they bother restricting it? People will just find a way to get around it.. wait is it only limited to Japan?
D'oh!
14 years ago
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aki sora? to be restricted? too bad 😢
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never interested in those titles before...
but now i want to read them
14 years ago
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Quote from CatzCradle
Okusama wa Shougakusei (My Wife Is an Elementary Student)
Reason for designation: Child rape.
There's child rape in that series? Wow, that series was darker than I thought... I thought it was almost too sugary. Guess I was wrong.
Or am I thinking of different story....?
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14 years ago
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well its not like there are saying they can't be written right? just that they can't be sold or rented to children under 18... and well porn (no matter how soft core it is , how much plot it has) cant be sold to minors in the US anyway. And in my personal opionion 12 year olds should not be able to get there hands on that stuff... the 16 and 17 year old kids who are fans enough of the series (which is who? because they arn't suuuper popular titles or anything) will be able to find away around it just like they find there way around everything else haha...
most of the manga will probably be safe from this ban, and it wont matter all that much to those who read it on the internet anyway
14 years ago
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Quote from firestalker
Quote from CatzCradle
Okusama wa Shougakusei (My Wife Is an Elementary Student)
Reason for designation: Child rape.There's child rape in that series? Wow, that series was darker than I thought... I thought it was almost too sugary. Guess I was wrong.
Or am I thinking of different story....?
lol
im guessing you were thinking of
Okusama wa Joshi Kousei
...that manga is kind of fucked up too but its not playing in the same leauge as Okusama wa Shougakusei
14 years ago
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So, if I am understanding this correctly, this is essentially the manga equivalent of an NC-17 rated film or AO rated video game in the US, right? Given how big the manga industry is in Japan, this seems appropriate, especially given the content of these series.
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