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Tondog38
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elniro
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I heard bout this ages ago, and as a person who lives in UK i think its ridicolous. Daily mail are a crappy newspaper anyway, constantly having wrong content about things such as games, and now manga and anime
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AnimeHeretic
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Article (and credibility of reporter) might have been more effective had they cited specific examples, titles and authors, instead of effectively screaming OH MY GOD, IT'S THE FILTHY EASTERNERS!!!
There are certainly titles out there that I would find inappropriate for school, and there are titles I would find inappropriate for minors. However, by lumping them into one category, this article certainly makes it hard for me to take them seriously. Of course, the UK is more restrictive than the US. Titles can be censored and some have been banned outright by the BBFC. I seem to recall that Urotsukidoji and similar hentai titles were among the first to be released over there and it definitely colored people's view. |
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Gamelore
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I wish they gave out manga when I was in High School. Damn kids and their free manga, and their makeout sessions.
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noneko_Mamimi
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I couldn't agree with you more. I hate people who write articles like that, and then ignorant people will believe it. Not to mention, reporters viciously twist truths into some exaggerated bull. That's why I dislike newspapers.
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Muzzaro
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The problem is, like with Manhunt and the scandal around that, the media start the fire, and the public blow it out of proportion. I saw one mother return a copy of manhunt that her 19 year old son had bought, demanding her money back, and threatening to call her solicitor, because this game was evil, and should be banned. All due to one lil incident, where the game wasn't even involved anyway.
Like when they released some fictional film about how D&D warps peoples minds, and an episode of Taggart following the same theme, suddenly D&D and roleplay was evil. My red boxed set of D&D (pretty old now) was torn to pieces, because D&D was 'evil'. The Mail is a reasonable paper over here, slightly more respected then tabloids such as The Sun. This news will carry fast, and i imagine the poor kids of that school will have their mangas removed by either the teachers, after the PTA all go up in arms over it, or by angry parents. This is gonna blow out of proportion, and i just hope it stops at the schools, I can just imagine a butt load of people protesting outside Another World, because they sell 'the satanic eastern corruption!'. |
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AnimeHeretic
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Originally when I tried to access the link (in quote), the site was down, but I finally got a chance to look at it. I see a couple of things that might calm this down: First off, they put this on page 49. Our UK members can correct me if things are different there than in the US, but wouldn't that kind of imply they're filling space? Also, it looks more like an editorial or commentary than an actual news story. It's not headline news here. It looks more like a tabloid that blows things out of proportion to scare up readership, expressing things in extreme forms. SInce Tempest reports that this is a few months old, I now think this is much to do over nothing. |
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cultnirvana
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Urgh, the people who read The Daily Mail wouldn't understand a word of Shakespeare. It's a newspaper with a reading age of nine and is aimed towards housewives, in other words the people who already hate anime and manga. In total comparsion, UK broadsheets rave about how great manga is. Such as The Guardian http://forums.animeuknews.net/viewtopic.php?t=498&sid=c84ef99d91f8b5dc878adc1645a01113 |
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AnimeHeretic
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Or more directly, the Guardian article is:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1359795,00.html |
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deathbringer
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19 and his mom is still deciding what games he can play? That's really, really sad. |
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Mohawk52
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One must realise that UK newspapers are very politely one-sided in their views and readership. The Daily Mail for instance is usually conservative right of centre, where the Guardian is usually more liberal left. The rest are only good for picking up dog mess off the pavement, or lining one's bird cage with.There is also the usual UK journalistic caveat of "don't let the truth get in the way of a good story if it will sell papers, mate"
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