Possible Ban on 18+ Anime and Manga in Tokyo in 3D!!!!

10 publishers, including Kodansha, Shogakukan and Kadokawa, have announced they will have nothing to do with the Tokyo International Anime Fair due to the persecution the Tokyo government has been directing at them.
It now appears the event may as well be cancelled – if they are lucky Disney will show up, but not much else is left.
The publishers do not mince words:
“[Ishihara and company] have been repeatedly making dishonest statements filled with inaccuracies
The ban is completely vague and tramples underfoot the previous understandings between publishers and the Tokyo government.”
Tokyo’s governor Ishihara would probably be delighted if the entire anime industry collapsed along with their event – less filthy porn and fewer foreigners to deal with – and is not afraid to show it:
“Ah, well, they just decided to do that by themselves. Maybe it has something to do with the ban, I don’t know, they have their own interpretation of it all.
It doesn’t bother me at all! By all means, please feel free to do as you see fit!”
Meanwhile leftist Japanese media, such as Asahi, has begun desperately reporting (although they actually began claiming this as soon as the new bill was announced) that the DPJ is now “expected” to approve the revised law – although strangely their media groups are the only ones to do so and reports from Twitter claim a majority of Tokyo assemblymen still oppose the reworded ban.
The vote on the bill is due in December, and should demonstrate whether a senile old man and a tiny band of crazed moral crusaders can cripple Japan’s anime, manga and game industries over the opposition of the entire Japanese publishing industry.

boycotting = no badass and cute animes

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.
BL mangaka Shouko Takaku complains that her (unidentified, but “unfortunately not small”) publisher told her to stop using school trappings in her manga:
I was bluntly told the other day “because of the Tokyo ordinance, please stop using high school students [in your manga].” Depending on the label it seems you can’t even draw school uniforms…”
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Yes, I was really shocked – I was astonished and responded “Really? Really? It’s come to that now already?”
She comments that she expects the industry’s recent decline will only be accelerated by the introduction of the ban.
Another BL mangaka, Kanako Meiji, reports her publisher is considering cancelling a reprint of her works:
What’s going to happen? A new edition of one of my titles was due to be published in April, but now it’s under deliberation. It has lots of sex and minors. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s cancelled.
She compares the political precedent the law represents to Japan’s notorious 1925 “Peace Preservation Law,” a law which began Japan’s lurch towards totalitarianism by imposing a prison sentence of up to 10 years on anyone found guilty of threatening the “national character” of Japan.
Japan’s secret police force subsequently became notorious as “thought police,” and later revisions saw the law expanded to cover more types of thought crime and the right of appeal revoked. Only the American invasion saw them abolished.
Then, just as now, a vaguely worded law allowed authorities to intimidate into silence all those they did not lock up directly – a fate which seems likely to befall all publishers of anime, manga and games in Japan.

OH WELL LOOK AT THE BRIGHT SIDE. NO MORE WEEABOO GAIJINS COMING OVER AND SAYING MOE~ IN YOUR PHACE.

dude this is only the beginning of the end.......

I've been watching his story hoping someone would suddenly realize that their time and money was being wasted, but come on now, there's no way that someone should be able to justify such a ban. I've read books where much worse things are done, and unless illustrations are the deal breaker here, they might want to revise the ban to censor the media in general so they at least sound consistent. I'd continue ranting but I suppose my arguments coming from a bias and I lack full details on the ban, so for all I know he is aiming for morale censorship of the media. Either way, I don't think taking actions that risk crashing such a large portion of your own countries economy is a good idea unless its absolutely necessary.

We will support it, with the addition of a supplementary resolution which requests the prudent application of the law.

We’ve received lots of mail about this. I haven’t had a chance to read it all, but I’ve seen much of it. Maybe we haven’t fully addressed your concerns, but I am grateful you have displayed such passion towards the Tokyo metropolitan government.

I was bluntly told the other day “because of the Tokyo ordinance, please stop using high school students [in your manga].” Depending on the label it seems you can’t even draw school uniforms…”

Yes, I was really shocked – I was astonished and responded “Really? Really? It’s come to that now already?”

What’s going to happen? A new edition of one of my titles was due to be published in April, but now it’s under deliberation. It has lots of sex and minors. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s cancelled.

If they have to compromise the school setting thing in order to avoid a total ban, that'd be for the better.

A total ban would suck.... a million dicks. Plus one.