Japanese Manga ruled obscene

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-01-13 10:26pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3391951.stm

See? This kind of thing isn't confined to America.

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-01-13 10:27pm

What, did the black stripe cover less than .8% of the guy's penis or something?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-01-13 10:31pm

The difference between this and America is that this would have actually have been insanely perverted.

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2004-01-13 10:40pm

Iceberg wrote:What, did the black stripe cover less than .8% of the guy's penis or something?

Iirc it shouldn't even matter as censorship laws requiring the covering been repeal a couple of years ago.

Granted there's a new set of censorship laws the Japanese Government passed pass recently thanks in part to the pressure of more puritan-mind nations.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2004-01-13 11:14pm

France banned Narutaru because they thought it was too disturbing

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-01-13 11:18pm

Hamel wrote:France banned Narutaru because they thought it was too disturbing

They banned Narutaru???

BWAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, just thought that it was really funny. *wipes tear*

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-01-13 11:36pm

And I tell you again, the Southern Christians are trying to take their moral superiourity and...erm...wait...

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-01-13 11:42pm

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And a blow is struck for those of us who do not like anime!

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-01-13 11:52pm

Rogue 9 wrote:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And a blow is struck for those of us who do not like anime!

Which might've meant something if this wasn't Manga...

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-01-14 12:18am

I'd like to see the offending comic. I want to see what Japan considers obscene.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-01-14 12:25am

kojikun wrote:I'd like to see the offending comic. I want to see what Japan considers obscene.

Fat chance having a link posted here.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-01-14 12:29am

Hmm, is Koji in the BoTM? It could go there ...

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-01-14 12:32am

Nope, not in the BotM, I'm too wild and crazy for them. Go figure.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2004-01-14 12:37am

The penal code article on which the prosecution was based, Article 175, does not clearly define what is deemed obscene, but the legal precedent was set by a ruling on a Japanese translation of DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1957.

The Supreme Court at that time declared obscenity was anything "unnecessarily sexually stimulating, (which) damages the normal sexual sense of shame of ordinary people, or is against good sexual moral principles".

The normal sexual sense of shame of ordinary people. Riiiiiight. I don't think I was born with one.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-01-14 12:53am

Bob McDob wrote:Hmm, is Koji in the BoTM? It could go there ...

Assuming anyone has a link to begin with.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-01-14 01:21am

Idiots.

Rogue 9 wrote:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And a blow is struck for those of us who do not like anime!

*snort* Manga and anime are two different things. Besides, why do you care if you don't like anime?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-01-14 01:24am

Because my D&D group is obsessed with it, and will interrupt the game to watch episodes of Kenshin or some such nonsense.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-01-14 01:33am

That's just gaming in poor form. It's not much of a strike against anime.

*shrugs* Whatever, do what you will.

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2004-01-14 02:42am

Hamel wrote:France banned Narutaru because they thought it was too disturbing

They've banned individual epsiodes from being aired from several different series for one reason or another for a long time now, but banning whole series out right is new to me.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2004-01-14 03:14am

kojikun wrote:Nope, not in the BotM, I'm too wild and crazy for them. Go figure.

I thought the reason you weren't in BoTM was you were only 17.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-01-14 03:47am

Its because the law is rarely enforced. Every so often you need to make an example of someone.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-01-14 05:05am

Rogue 9 wrote:Because my D&D group is obsessed with it, and will interrupt the game to watch episodes of Kenshin or some such nonsense.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=10636

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-01-14 05:09am

Yes, I've long known about the Dead Ale Wives spoof. The sound has been applied to many different forms of animation, and I prefer the 8-Bit Theater version.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-01-14 05:48am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:
kojikun wrote:I'd like to see the offending comic. I want to see what Japan considers obscene.
Fat chance having a link posted here.

well, there is that porn link thread in the HoS. . . .

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-01-14 06:13am

Rogue 9 wrote:Yes, I've long known about the Dead Ale Wives spoof. The sound has been applied to many different forms of animation, and I prefer the 8-Bit Theater version.

I dunno, having Kenshin as one of the players seemed suitably ironic