Japan, Censorship, and Incest

[Drew Pickles]

And for the grand reopening, I bring incest back to the discussion.

 

What are your guys thoughts on Japan and their levels of censorship. In case you did not know, Japanese company's are required by law to censor anything that is considered too lewd for them in terms of body parts. In practice, this amounts to pornography producers just placing a little black bar over certain body parts in hentai manga, and them using some weird filter that distorts the body parts to render them somewhat unseeable in videos.

 

Recently, the Tokyo bill added more to the censorship. Now not only does all pornography have to be censored in such a weird way, but animated pornography depicting incest is now illegal.

 

So what does this mean?

 

For starters, it meant that Aki-Sora is no longer able to go on, and it has also hampered similar works. There is an exception in the law that allows these depictions if they do not promote incest or if it is artistic (something like that), which is possibly why the anime Yosuga no Sora is not banned.

 

However, it only bans blood related incest. This has caused a flood of NBR (not blood related) incest anime and manga to prevail. You need look no further than Kiss x Sis or Oniichan Dakedo to see what I mean.

 

And this incest theme has started to become more and more apparent in seemingly unrelated works. An entire season of Monogatari was seemingly devoted to incest, with such unforgettable scenes as the toothbrush sequence- which would go on to inspire Oral Hygiene bro-. You can also look at the success of Oreimo which translates as "My little sister cant be this cute". While these may not have been influenced by the Tokyo bill, incest seems to becoming prevalent in the anime scene.

 

So what are your guys thoughts on Japan and their strange habits. I may have not gotten everything right with the Tokyo bill, but what are your thoughts on this. And I have not even gotten into the discussion of how the hell loli shit is legal in japan, but feel free to debate all of this and more.

 

and the international community thinks Americans are the one's doing incest

 

[Grendel]

This is why you can't have nice things.