Last month a St. Petersburg court banned Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul, and Inuyashiki in regards to websites where they were streaming. The anime were deemed bad for young people and the court officially said after watching some of this anime, “Every episode contains cruelty, murder, …Read more »
There’s a lot of intense content in Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan manga, but for one particular magazine in Malaysia, all those naked, no-genitals-having Titans stomping around was just too much. In what appears to be a mode of censorship exclusive to the magazine Kreko—which …Read more »
The anime Death Note, Tokyo Ghoul and Inuyashiki have received legal bans in Russia after the decision of a St. Petersburg court yesterday. The bans relate to websites where these anime can be watched. The prosecutors argued for this ban on the grounds of protecting …Read more »
Lawmakers in Ohio recently called for Kent State University to no longer use the scholarly book Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation in their curriculum. Written by Tufts University’s Dr. Susan Napier, the book in question was groundbreaking for bringing …Read more »
The Demon Slayer movie is having hiccups toward its theatrical release in China, and it’s related to the fallout from Monster Hunter. To recap, a pun ad-libbed in Monster Hunter by Chinese-American actor Jin Au-Yeung (which was intended as a showing of Chinese pride) was …Read more »
Lawmakers in Ohio are trying to get an anime book pulled from Kent State University and threatening the college’s funds over it. The book in question is Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation by Dr. Susan Napier of Tufts University. …Read more »
After Robert’s Anime Corner Store noted that the Azur Lane Blu-ray will be rated TV-14 and not TV-MA, there were concerns among some fans that Funimation was censoring Azur Lane to get the lower rating. An article at Anime News Network says that ANN investigated the validity …Read more »
Sometimes censorship seems kind of random and nonsensical. That was the case with Capcom’s awesome hack-and-slasher Devil May Cry 5, which includes a scene in which Trish’s butt is briefly visible. That slice of a scene was covered up with lens flare, but only in the …Read more »
It’s no secret that content restrictions for games have gotten stricter in recent years, especially when it comes to anything remotely sexual on consoles. Senran Kagura series producer Kenichiro Takaki—appropriately known as the “huge boobs producer”—previously said these restrictions have made his job more difficult, …Read more »
Game censorship has been a hot button issue for many, particularly when it comes to Japanese games making their way to the west. That goes doubly so for anything coming to one of Sony’s platforms, which have been a little stricter about certain types of …Read more »
What do The Da Vinci Code , satellite TV and Pokemon Go have in common? If you answered “a waste of time,” you might not technically be wrong , but the answer I was looking for is: they’re all banned in Iran. The Iranian government …Read more »
China has been on a comics censoring spree this year, banning 38 manga and anime from the country last month, and 62 more back in April, issuing warnings and fines to remove this content from popular Chinese websites. You'd never know it if you're a …Read more »
Last month The Daily Show host Jon Stewart tackled the ill-informed CNN story that vilified manga as child pornography , and now he's back on a similar topic for different reasons. Japan recently jailed artist Megumi Igarashi for creating a 3D printing of her genitals, …Read more »
If our observations on a trip there last summer are any indication, anime is pretty popular in Taiwan. Animate, the otaku-centric anime shop, have a few stores there, and just as in the States, anime regularly airs on the TV. That became a small problem …Read more »
Have you been embroiled in the Internet madness set off by FUNimation's announcement that they would be making cuts to Dance in the Vampire Bund ? Are your typin' fingers sore from inaudible yelling, or are you simply enjoying the view from the sidelines? No …Read more »
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