×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Forum - View topic
NEWS: Japanese Minister to French Presidential Hopeful: "Read More Manga"


Goto page 1, 2, 3  Next

Note: this is the discussion thread for this article

Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Iwatch2muchanime



Joined: 19 Dec 2006
Posts: 1291
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:32 pm Reply with quote
That's kind of funny and useful to votes.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger My Anime
minakichan





PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:50 pm Reply with quote
Oh, Royal.

Isn't France chock full of manga anyway? Much, much more so that the States? Well, I guess it's not as mainstream as it is in Asia, but still.

Well, good luck with that. *shrug*
Back to top
Samurai Drifter



Joined: 19 Nov 2005
Posts: 13
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:55 pm Reply with quote
minakichan wrote:
Isn't France chock full of manga anyway? Much, much more so that the States?

Yes.

I've heard that something like 50% of French people read manga, but that might be wrong. But it's much bigger there than here in the US.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime My Manga
GATSU



Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 15605
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:09 pm Reply with quote
Quote:
criticized Japanese society for what she perceived to be a high degree of tolerance for expressions of violence and pornography in popular culture.


Says the country which gave us Luc Besson films and "Irreversible". Rolling Eyes
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address
LydiaDianne



Joined: 28 Jan 2006
Posts: 5634
Location: Southern California
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:16 pm Reply with quote
Obviously she, or her handlers, have no clue as to what she (they) are talking about.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime My Manga
God Gundam



Joined: 05 Jul 2006
Posts: 404
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:31 pm Reply with quote
Anyone who stereotypes a nation like that doesn't deserve to be president. I hope this French bitch gets what's coming to her. She obviously saw some little kid reading an h-doujin and is all up in arms against Japan. Huh, kinda like the soccer moms and fanatical Christians we have here.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
smoochy



Joined: 30 Oct 2005
Posts: 367
Location: Texas
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:39 pm Reply with quote
Someone needs to do a rant (not myself) on people categorizing manga as a genre, not a medium.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Riyousha



Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 817
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:52 pm Reply with quote
I find issues and debates regarding bad material in medias to be pretty interesting. Don't ask me why though. But I never realize that other countries would criticize this stuff for being inappropiate. But they also criticized games depending on their content. Now what shocked me was that Greece banned every video-game, appropiate and inappropiate, and gamers, too. And violent and sexual games were banned from Austarlia because of no 18+ rating. Also, when I llok at these debates, I eat a certain type of food. Here's a list.

Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website Yahoo Messenger
Richard J.



Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3367
Location: Sic Semper Tyrannis.
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:18 pm Reply with quote
God Gundam wrote:
Huh, kinda like the soccer moms and fanatical Christians we have here.
Please provide some examples of actual incidents. I keep hearing about all these "soccer moms" and "fanatical Christians" causing problems here in the US over anime and manga. Provide me with a clear example, not some Viz press statement going "we don't want to offend anyone" or whatever. I want to hear about a protest rally or something serious.

So far, not a single person who has made some snide or sarcastic comment about these groups has provided a single clear example that I've seen.

On French politics, strangely, I've actually been following this election over there. Nicolas Sarkozy would get my vote over any of the other candidates. He actually seems to have a grasp of France's problems and at least some sort of idea how to deal with them that's realistic.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Visit poster's website
BelYaun



Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Posts: 8
Location: Phoenix, AZ
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:01 pm Reply with quote
You know that you're selling well when government officials say that your product is bad for society.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Yahoo Messenger
Kouji



Joined: 01 Oct 2005
Posts: 978
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:14 pm Reply with quote
Richard J. wrote:
God Gundam wrote:
Huh, kinda like the soccer moms and fanatical Christians we have here.
Please provide some examples of actual incidents. I keep hearing about all these "soccer moms" and "fanatical Christians" causing problems here in the US over anime and manga. Provide me with a clear example, not some Viz press statement going "we don't want to offend anyone" or whatever. I want to hear about a protest rally or something serious.
One word: Pokemon.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger My Anime My Manga
Ohoni



Joined: 10 Jun 2003
Posts: 3421
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:16 pm Reply with quote
Wow, I hope she wins. Maybe then she could reign in some of that crap French "franime".
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
apocalypticPOTATO



Joined: 17 Jan 2005
Posts: 11
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:17 pm Reply with quote
yah but i'd much rather have royal in charge, sarkozy is freaking crazy
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
fighterholic



Joined: 28 Sep 2005
Posts: 9193
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:25 pm Reply with quote
LydiaDianne wrote:
Obviously she, or her handlers, have no clue as to what she (they) are talking about.

Couldn't have been put better when in her book she is criticizing the Japanese media for having a high tolerance of sex and violence. I agree with Aso, she needs to read more manga to see what kind of stories are truly out there, most notably, things like shonen or shojo titles. I'm sure she would find them very interesting. The Japanese have also been cracking down lately on what they are showing on television. Granted, they were showing a lot more nudity seven to eight years ago than they are now.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime
Spotlesseden



Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 3514
Location: earth
PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:36 pm Reply with quote
Quote:
I've heard that something like 50% of French people read manga, but that might be wrong. But it's much bigger there than here in the US.


Japan and French are the only two countries where comics(manga) sale > book sale
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Goto page 1, 2, 3  Next
Page 1 of 3

 


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group