Ok, so this doesn't actually go off the rail: Ishihara is believed to use a scarecrow about rape/pedophilia matters into a tool to push a law that would giv his team a very wide angle of censorship on any matters he deems socially improper, even if they are not associated in any way to the matters which sprung the bill into life.

Once the bill becomes a very wide spectrum law withvery little boundaries, his party will bein position to hurt any media which would allow representation or evocation of lifestyles they despise.

Homophobia happens to be something Ishihara, for obscure personal reasons, hates more than anything on Earth, apart from women (and I quote) "too old to bear child".

Once he's got a very large mallet and nobody can stop him to use it on anybody he dislikes, it won't matter at all that it started with some anime or manga stuff.

I do not make these associations, nor believe they are justified in any way. Ishihara however, puts it all in the same bag. Which makes him well... not a nice person? At all?

So, nope. I did not mean to be offending, not more than I wanted to turn it into something strictly political. I am simply pointing out that someone already has.

 

Peace, friends :)