Books Kinokuniya Sydney Removes 7 Manga After Lawmaker's 'Child Pornography' Complaint
The Sydney branch of the Books Kinokuniya store chain removed seven manga titles from its shelves following a written complaint by South Australian legislator Connie Bonaros. Bonaros wrote that she was concerned that the bookstore was hosting "child pornography material," and called for the removal of "these offensive books." (The letter does not specify the titles.)
Kinokuniya's vice president Keijiro Mori wrote back and confirmed that the following titles have been removed from Kinokuniya Sydney:
Eromanga Sensei Sword Art Online Goblin Slayer No Game No Life Inside Mari Parallel Paradise Dragonar Academy
What never stops bugging me is.... Why would the books store even comply to that? That's just a person claiming there might be cp on the books, to which the chain can just reply >lol no there isn't CP here, go look for real child trafficking rings
Why do cute girls make anglos seethe so much? First Amazon and now this
Ethan Wood
>Inside Mari >not Aku no Hana So the story about a girl suffering a kind of gender dysphoria isn't allowed. But it's fine if it's just stalking, vandalism, and general violently acting out.
Thomas Carter
It reminds Anglo females of how undesirable they truly are and that obviously infuriates them.
Angel Roberts
Incidentally, at one point I actually bought a volume of Eromanga Sensei at that exact bookstore. wish me luck in kangaroo gulag lads
Camden Cook
It's publicly acceptable racism.
Mason Thompson
As an Aussie, what would you say is the deal with Aussie politicians? Why do they have such a bug up their ass about anime? Surely there are actual problems to worry about but instead we have multiple Australian politicians talking about the dangers of failing to protect the rights of lines on a page.
Hunter Adams
I'm sure China is behind it. Not only do they hate Japan, they want to re-direct the attention from their misdeeds in Australia.
Dylan Murphy
I can see the logic in that somewhat, although Australia kind of has a history with this sort of thing already. I think they banned live action pornography that featured women with small breasts. When you see these gestures that don't really address actual human trafficking or abuse in any meaningful way, it makes you wonder what kind of skeletons are in the closets of the people advancing policies and sentiments like these.
Brayden Price
Honestly, I don't have a fucking clue. To be fair, I've never found it impact me that much, but I guess that's also part of being a younger generation for whom it's so much harder to censor stuff and actually make it stick.
Seeing politicians talk about this sort of thing feels more like talking heads than anything else to me. I'm a young guy so I'm worried about all the sorts of things you'd expect, house prices, uni prices etc. which feel so much more pressing. Especially since I can't imagine them *actually* managing to ban a non-erotic drawing in 2020. My only hypothesis is that there's a strong base of curmudgeonly old people who hate other people having freedom, and that it's basically just virtue signalling for them.
For the non Aussies here, go look up the video of the conservative Aussie politician describing Eromanga Sensei on YT, it'll give you a chuckle.
John Robinson
People actually buy manga from bookstores?
Christian Young
>Eromanga Sensei >Sword Art Online >Goblin Slayer >No Game No Life >Inside Mari >Parallel Paradise >Dragonar Academy
And nothing of value was lost.
Christian Garcia
>go look up the video of the conservative Aussie politician describing Eromanga Sensei on YT, it'll give you a chuckle.
I saw that and it's still kind of surreal to me that that happened. It was the kind of dryly absurd thing you would see in a sketch comedy show but it was a 100% genuine politician 100% unironically speaking at length in a stern and commanding tone in parliament about the dangers of smutty Japanese cartoons. Holy hell, reality really is stranger than fiction. You couldn't write shit that's as ridiculous as the real world these days.
At this point you got to take a step back and look at everything. Why is CP banned>>to discourage sexual assault against minors>does this material cause people to assault minors>> Asturalia crime data: Data Not Found>>look for alternative>>the material, as well as magnitudes more of similar content, is produced, published and openly bought in Japan>>Question again: Does this cause people to assault minors>>Looks at crime data>>Japan has some of the lowest violent crime rates in the world including sexual assault crimes>>Begs the question: how does a country where the alledged explicit material is rampant have some of the sexual assault rates in the world? Its certainly not the material as the main contributing factor and, with my arm chair analysis, say its something culturally related.
Camden Kelly
>cbldf in the shitter >amazon bans manga >bookdepository bans manga >japanese owned store now removes their manga
these coincidences keep pilling up yet Zig Forums covers their ears and yell lalala it doesn't affect me I will still be able to import
It was light novels, and it's seeming increasingly likely that that was AI going rogue, considering how random and arbitrary the delistings were.
Owen Anderson
If it was random and arbitrary they wouldn't have been removed by Book Depository too.
Lucas Hill
Were the same books removed by them?
Cooper Sullivan
Oh, that explains it. Amazon owns Book Depository.
Bentley Harris
For the physical versions that were removed from Amazon, like No Game No Life, Eromanga-sensei, Oreimo, yes. So far the ebook stuff hasn't come into play, so far, but then again the ebook copies aren't affected physically...yet
Logan Bell
The banned titles are still available on abebooks.
