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Originally Posted by gecd
ishihara..
he is not considering the future of japan
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He is cynically protecting *his* style of authorship (novels) against the transfer of general interest to anime/manga by demonizing the latter. It makes good press with his "why can't it be like the Old Days" Imperial buddies. PM Kan hates him but you gotta play the game in local politics.
The really insidious thing here is the classic japanese societal problem of that instead of confronting the law head on, at least some publishers will just prefer to roll over and self-censor. Is anyone noting the current Amazon.com scandal of self-censoring print-on-demand titles off of their shelves? There isn't even a specific law driving that behavior. They're just being irrationally risk-averse (or moralist twits, it isn't clear yet)
However, anyone who studies that sort of thing knows that authors tend to become more creative at slipping things under the radar. Watch and see if in the latter part of 2011 the body count of "look!!! teen boobz!!!!" series drops in lieu of more complex story content.