http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/12/1 ... an-passes/

Well... um... thoughts?

Well I guess its good I don't watch or read much manga or anime anymore.

It's nothing surprising though. It's the same junk, ignorant politicians and parents whining to restrict whatever they do not understand or does not fall under their ideals.

Its happening here in the US too with the supreme court case about violent video games. Luckily the people fighting for games were better prepared and the opposition knew nothing about games at all.

Well, from what I'm being told, it's mostly targeting loli stuff.

Well, this blows, and it will be a serious blow for the Japanese comic industry, not to mention the millions of fans from Japan and over seas who actually read them. And from what I've read on that site, they're not stopping there. Now they are targeting anything and everything that might be labeled 'hentai' as well...

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/11/2 ... entai-ban/

How they think this one will get through without millions of otaku rioting in protest, I haven't the faintest idea.

Well, if it just means books about schoolgirls being raped by gigantic squid or gang-banged preteens being confined to the adult section of the stores, I don't really see a problem with that. But it's a vague law open to the personal interpretation of the courts and that's proven in the past to be dangerous. You just have to look at the trials surrounding Burroughs' Naked Lunch or that laughable witch hunt against Jello Biafra involving a piece of HR Giger art, or really any of the whole 80's music censorship scare to realize these kinds of laws have the potential to criminalize genuine works of art.

That said, there's a pretty big difference between Nabokov's Lolita and loli-con.

It does stink of the animation ghetto, though.

It sounds extremely vague..

I can understand the desire to get rid of kiddie porn, as I understand that was what it was originally about. This does seem like it is broader than that, though. That looks like a good tool for more moralistic people to force their standards upon others.

Norway does have an old anti-porn law. In the 50's, it was used against a controversial author named Agnar Mykle. Today his works are read in school..

I found a little more.

http://dankanemitsu.wordpress.com/2010/ ... -wanted-2/

This might help a bit.