Quote - Convenience store (combini) magazine racks are one place which are highly visible and easily scrutinised.  Some publishers of well-known "pantie mags" - commonly found on such racks - are saying they will now have to publish tamer front covers, or else they won't be able to stay within the law ( hoh hoh ). There is another market called DouJin, or self-publised works. Loads of original and fan fiction publications here, in manga form mostly.  It is not difficult to find internet-based anime versions as well.  Many doujin works contain utterly bizarre and explicit content.

If the intention is to protect and to provide moral guidance to youth, as is the government's stated intent, then it is no surprise that this form of regulation has kicked in.

Yeah, but still is banning some types of anime/manga with vague rules a good idea?  To me if rape or panty shots were speficially the problems then it should be an easily identifable and quantifable listing that is plain, simple, and clear... not "anything that causes social disruption".  There's also a fear effect in play, I've heard, with some publishers either telling the mangaka or anime makers you can't do this or reprint that out of fear of regulation.  I've also heard that a ton of publishers are pulling out of some sort of big anime fair thingy.

If this is just put questionable things in an R-rated section so the kiddies can't buy it, that's not as big a problem by me.  If it's a carte blanche for some people to ban whatever art they don't like, that's something else.

WARK!

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