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Splitter
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Yep, cultural boundaries strikes again.
What a nation we live in where the naked body is looked upon with either disgust or ravenous perversion... |
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britannicamoore
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I feel bad they took it that way because its not true. parents and kids take baths together all the time....someone needs to tell them that. Unless i'm mistaken and thats not true? I know speaking for my family as a kid you take baths with the older kids or parents when you're younger. 1. So you don't drown in the tub, 2. So they make sure you actually get clean....theres more to go on there. Maybe I misunderstood what he misunderstood? |
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james039
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In Japan it is fairly commonplace for parent and child to actually bathe together in the same tub. I do not believe it is the same in America. However, naturally, one must supervise particularly young children for their bath so that they do not get into any trouble.
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Weazul-chan
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fighterholic
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Well, after having looked over what's been going on with Nymphet, there was probably a little bit too much going on. She probably had no ill intention of creating the manga, hell there's a lot worse titles out there. Had their been the crossing of lines in there, then it would have been something worthwhile pointing out (as far as Japanese culture is concerned). There's just too much of a line between Japan and the US of A.
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HitokiriShadow
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Yeah, something was obviously lost in translation. If incest was such a big problem, Angel Sanctuary and Koi Kaze would never have seen the light of day here.
My guess is someone just heard of the cancellation and controversy and assumed it was due to the 'incest.' |
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ZaWarudo
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Well, to defend the "indefensible," just because someone gets a hard-on doesn't mean they're attracted to someone. For some people anything rubbing against their crotch could cause that reaction, it wouldn't have to be human. Arousal /= attraction. |
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Cloe
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 Posts: 2728 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Yeah, I think there are a lot of misconceptions on Watashiya's part about the cause of the cancellation. Child/parent bathing is nowhere near as rare as she thinks and I've certainly never heard or any mother or father being arrested for taking a bath with their kids. I used to bathe with my parents and younger brothers all the time when I was a little girl. And I think the success (or, at the very least, the lack of radical mass disapproval) of Koi Kaze proved that incest isn't as wildly taboo a subject for Western consumers as she thinks. The scenes she decided Americans thought were problematic weren't even the cause of the cancellation. She's making a lot of hasty assumptions. |
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Dargonxtc
 Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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Remember this was all done through a web translater. Those things can seriously get key words or ideas wrong. So its no surprize the creator has the wrong idea. Seems to be taking it well though.
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HitokiriShadow
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Yeah, web translators certainly aren't known for their accuracy, but I'm not sure how they got to wrong volume and a completely different issue simply because of babelfish (or something like it).
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ikillchicken
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cause we really needed another Nymphet topic...
Its really time for this issue to die. |
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fighterholic
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Actually that's probably a good idea, why don't we have Zac close this thread now. |
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enurtsol
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One has to wonder which sites Kaworu Watashiya was reading, and what those people are saying/writing in those sites. Fans can have some huge misconceptions at times grasping at straws.
Obviously, this crosses Jason DeAngelis' line, and he's the one who's releasing it, so it's his line that matters. You don't want people releasing stuff they don't believe in, do you? 
Now I wonder if those people who hated the Nymphet title are retracting the ubiquitous "creator's intent" defense. 
Still, people don't realize that Japan can go over the line sometimes. Heck, I've seen some doujinshi that make light (not necessarily make fun, but there's some of that too) of 9/11 even. Oh well. 
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StickyToffeePopcorn
Posts: 61 Location: UK |
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Jesus Christ, how can she not get it? I would've thought it'd been pretty God damn clear to the series' creator that she was drawing a fricking 9 year old slut.
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ikillchicken
Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
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agreed. Especially if this fails to generate new discussion and just rehashes the same old debate. (It is already starting to do that a bit). Its time to let this go. Its been canceled. End of Story. Everything that can possibly be said on that has been said. |
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