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

My thoughts exactly. But I can see why this new trend is used more in almost every anime and that's cause it sells. That aside I also feel anime fans want nothing more than panty flashes and bouncing big boobs. All I see is "X girl is so cute/hot/moe" and that's it. Remember that matrix boobies thing in HotD? To me the worse culprit is Kiss x Sis. A complete waste of animation.

I think you're pretty naive if you think that you're going to get more "quality" anime with increased censorship

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and also wth are you watching if you think that most anime is fanservice shit?

I think you're pretty naive if you think that you're going to get more "quality" anime with increased censorship

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and also wth are you watching if you think that most anime is fanservice shit?

Tokyo’s manga ban has been signed into law after passing a final vote, and is set to come into effect in 2011, with Tokyo governor Ishihara crowing that “Japan still has some common sense left after all!”
The ban already passed a committee vote, and as expected also passed a final vote on the 15th – the law stipulates that “voluntary restraints” must begun in April of 2011, with the full force of the ban to come in July.
All the major parties supported the ban – the ruling DPJ (leftist) insisted on a “prudent application” rider but otherwise did nothing to oppose the law as they did with the previous bill.
The LDP (right-wing) proposed and supported the original and current version of the bill. Their usual coalition partners, the Koumeito (the political arm of a Buddhist cult), also supported the bill, leaving only small parties to the left of the DPJ to oppose it.
Once again the motives of the DPJ can only be guessed at – they have repeatedly blocked national bans on possession of child pornography (already illegal to distribute) on civil liberties grounds, opposed the previously rejected version of the bill because it was worded as a ban on “virtual child pornography,” and actually insisted the just passed Tokyo law remove a “duty not to possess [real] child pornography” clause.
However, when the current bill’s wording was changed to ban depictions “promoting illegal or immoral sexual activity” (effectively a vastly more far-reaching ban than previously) rather than “[virtual] sexual activity involving minors” (this version of the ban was clearly targeting loli manga) as in the current version, their previous opposition all but evaporated.
That the law explicitly excludes photographic material can probably be interpreted both as a specific attack on “otaku” culture and an effort to avoid antagonising Japan’s mass media, who obviously would not support any restrictions on themselves but are only too happy to support them on other industries.
The 10 publishers who have boycotted the Tokyo Anime Fair are angry at the treatment meted out to the industry by Ishihara and his cronies:
“The earlier bill was defeated with heavy opposition, and we are indignant that the bill should be resubmitted in so short a time.”
Kadokawa’s CEO has vowed opposition will continue, although just what publishers can do about it is not clear, particularly in light of their evident ineptitude in handling politicians.
Ishihara for his part is crowing over the industry’s defeat:
“It makes sense for this to have passed – Japan still has some common sense left after all!”
In interviews he merely laughed at the industry boycott:
“If they’re outraged about this then they shouldn’t come. They’ll come the next year, for sure.”
Veteran shoujo mangaka Machiko Satonaka speaks of complete betrayal at the hands of the politicians:
“There were representatives who promised us †˜we won’t resubmit the bill without consulting manga and anime producers,’ but they submitted it anyway, so I feel we were tricked. There are many issues with the ordinance, in particular the †˜improperly promote or glorify [sexual activity]†˜ passage, and there is no way we can accept this.
In particular, I worry about the future for young mangaka – I hope they will persevere without the industry falling into decline.”

Tokyo’s governor Shintaro Ishihara has accused manga fans of being “abnormal” and having “corrupt DNA,” whilst condemning sexually explicit manga as “causing harm without a single benefit.”
His comments were made at a recent press conference, in which he sought to justify his support of the ban by rambling about genetic defectives:
“There are indeed plenty of perverts in the world. The DNA of these pitiful people is corrupt. They are indeed abnormal.”
The perverts in question are apparently anyone who opposes his ban.
This of course comes not long after he called homosexuals “genetically defective” and “pitiful.”
Another remark saw him criticise loli manga:
“Stories with young children being raped serve no purpose. They cause nothing but harm with no benefit.”
However, in the same press conference he went on to praise Vladimir Nabokov’s classic lolicon novel “Lolita” – “It was shocking at the time, but at that level the description is quite beautiful.”
When it was pointed out to him that when he was criticised during the 1972 publication of his own novel “Shinjitsu no Seikyouiku” (“True Sex Education”) he defended himself by saying “Literature of any kind does not lead children to commit crime or cause juvenile delinquency,” he merely responded that “I was wrong.”
In other recent remarks he again restated his indifference to the industry boycott of the Tokyo Anime Fair, saying “Who cares if they don’t come – they’ll come next year!” and even expressing his belief that the attendance of the anime industry is not necessary to an anime fair at all – “It doesn’t matter if they never attend it!”
All this from the man who has been writing rape novels for the past 50 years.
A synopsis of Ishihara’s 1956 novel “Kanzen na Yuugi” (“The Perfect Game”), loosely adapted into a movie:
A group of youths kidnap a mentally retarded girl whom they brutally rape and keep as a sex slave. After failing to sell her to a brothel, they dispose of her by throwing her off a cliff.
“Taiyou no Kisetsu” (“Season of the Sun”), a 1955 novel which sold a million copies and was also made into a movie:
A tearaway boxer in highschool begins a sexual relationship with a schoolgirl (by sticking his penis through a paper screen door), whom he soon grows tired of. He sells the girl to his brother for 5,000 yen.
The story ends with the girl becoming pregnant with her former boyfriend’s child and dying after a botched abortion, with the protagonist showing remorse for the first time in the story whilst attending her funeral.
“Shokei no Heiya” (“Execution Room”), a 1956 novel with a movie version, was the most controversial of his novels due to all the copy-cat crimes it inspired:
A group of young men pick up two women, who they go drinking with. They slip sedatives into their drinks and subsequently rape them. The girl’s friends catch up with them and stab one of them to death in a fight.
Interestingly, in 1957 a group of 7 16-year-old youths were arrested for gang-raping a 16-year-old girl whom they had drugged. Police later discovered the crime was modelled on the events described in “Execution Room.”
The book was also connected with a case where a middle-school boy crept into his neighbour’s house and placed sedative in their sugar, putting a housewife into a coma.
Another case saw a group of high-schoolers put a sedative into a girl’s coffee and drag her off to a nearby ryokan, where they attempted to rape her. Yet another case involved a group of unemployed youths kidnapping a woman for use as a sex slave.
Incidentally, all Ishihara’s novels are on sale in Tokyo bookshops and can be bought by children with no restriction.
However, even showing these 4-koma manga versions of Ishihara’s novels to a minor in Tokyo is now a criminal offence:

I understand and i totally agree and dislikes that a lot of sexual situations in animanga does not serve any other purpose other then sales to "perverts" ( no offence to the perverts) which is one of the reasons why i never bothered to watch more then the first episodes of 2nd season of k-on, to-love-ru and similiar stuff. But i rather have it that way then start creating more rules on what you and can not show.

K-On? are you serious, they have pretty solid story and actually a funny show to watch, that show is for everyone not only for "pervert", and what is great about it is music, if you only finished 2 episodes, then you have no right to judge anything period.

Edit: to love-ru is actually a totally different story lol

Maybe this politician should read Fahrenheit 451 and then he would understand why banning this stuff is a slippery slope.

Agreed. Perhaps if they had some more perspective on the consequences of their said actions, it would cause them to reflect on it a bit.