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Censorship 2014: Manga and Anime Blamed for Crime

by Maren Williams • January 2, 2015 • Comments Off

Misconceptions and deliberate hyperbole about manga and anime are nothing new, but a CNN segment that aired in June was so impressively wrong that our piece on it was one of the most visited on the site this year. In…

New Manga Crushed by Tokyo Ordinance

by Maren Williams • July 7, 2014 • Comments Off

A new manga series was cancelled last week just days before it was to debut online, apparently because the publisher was concerned it might clash with Tokyo’s Youth Healthy Development Ordinance. Creator Arisa Yamamoto said on her blog that editors…

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