Unseen Hearts AMV

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Happy Valentine to every forever alone like me :p
A word from the creator of this AMV DravenFury:
“I started this project about a month and a half back. I like making anime music videos as a way of expressing my feelings and creativity through music and video. Anyway whatever way you celebrate today even if not at all, I hope this AMV conveys what is important rather than the giving of chocolates, and flowers, and cards. Is somewhere deep down, in every beating human heart, we feel love. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone :)
I hope you enjoy it.

Tokyo Anime & Manga Ban Passes

This is a serious problem to all of us that why I like to share in my website and take your opinion for the matter.

the case is:

Tokyo’s ban on anime, manga and games featuring “virtual crimes” or which are “likely to interfere with the healthy development of youth” has passed after the DPJ agreed to support it.

The DPJ’s only addition to the critical portion of the law was a short rider which requests “prudent application of the law in light of any artistic, social, scientific or satirical merits the work might express” – it does not however add any legal obligation to consider these, or establish any clear or indepdently enforced criteria for judging whether a work can be declared “harmful” or not.

Even more bizarrely, the final draft actually removed a passage that imposed “a duty not to possess [photographic] child pornography” on Tokyo residents, whilst leaving the section banning erotic manga and anime (and explicitly excluding photographic materials) all but unchanged – that the bill is intended exclusively as an “anti-otaku” law seems to be beyond doubt.

It is very difficult to objectively assess the scope of the law – along with vague and subjective terms like “interfere with the healthy development of youth,” the law also includes “etc.” on the end of most of its examples, leaving it quite unclear, for example, whether the “improper glorification of illegal sexual activity, etc.” applies to only virtual sex crimes, or all crimes in general – presumably the interpretation adopted will be whichever is convenient to censors.

Similarly, the ban’s mention of “rape and other sexual acts which violate societal norms” seems inevitably to point to a ban on depictions of homosexuality,considering who was behind the law.

The generally expected form the law will take is that of a “amakudari” (a pervasive system of sinecures for retired bureaucrats) body which will inspect all anime, manga and games, with only those titles receiving approval as “healthy” able to be sold regularly in Tokyo shops – the rest will be relegated to the “adult corner.”

The most immediate and direct effect of the law will almost certainly be to see ecchi manga such as To Love-Ru, bishoujo titles such as Champion Red and most BL manga, as well as any seinen manga with especially mature themes, banned from general sales – presumably most will then be cancelled due to a lack of suitable magazine or tankobon distribution channels, with a few perhaps being resurrected as 18+ ero-manga.

As has already been seen, publishers will also likely be purging future anime, manga and games of any content liable to fall foul of the law, and removing older titles from distribution.

The law probably also spells the end of most late night anime in Tokyo (and by extension, everywhere else), which it would appear to ban under its distribution clause; given the vague wording of the current season alone it seems Ore no Imouto, Panty & Stocking, Yosuga, Sora no Otoshimono, Milky Holmes and others would all fall foul of its various stipulations.

There is also some doubt as to whether Comiket will be able to be held under the new regulations – if not, its cancellation or removal to another prefecture seems likely, although a lack of sufficiently large spaces may severely complicate this.

The law comes into effect in July of 2011, so with magazine, tankobon, anime and game release schedules being what they are, it seems likely its effects will be felt much sooner; in a genuinely democratic state there might be scope to overturn it before then, but from what has been seen so far it seems unlikely publishers have.

Source: http://www.sankakucomplex.com

Update:

The full Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly approved the government’s revised bill to amend the Youth Healthy Development Ordinance on Wednesday afternoon.

The current ordinance already prevents the sale and renting of “harmful publications” — materials that are “sexually stimulating, encourages cruelty, and/or may compel suicide or criminal behavior” to people under the age of 18. Bill 156 would require the industry to also regulate “manga, anime, and other images (except for real-life photography)” that “unjustifiably glorify or exaggerate” certain sexual or pseudo sexual acts. Another section of the revised bill would allow the government to directly regulate the above images if the depicted acts are also “considered to be excessively disrupting of social order” such as rape.

The assembly also approved a non-binding supplemental resolution urging newly designated harmful publications to be carefully regulated, with the work’s merits based on artistic, social, and other criteria to be taken into account in the evaluation process.

The voluntary self-regulation clauses will go into effect on April 1 of next year, and the restrictions on sales and renting will go into effect on July 1.

Sources: ITmedia NewsSankei News

Update 2:

Translator Dan Kanemitsu posted an English-language translation of an excerpt from a Friday press conference, in which Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara discusses the recently passed Bill 156 that amends the city’s Youth Healthy Development Ordinance.

Under Bill 156, the industry will regulate “manga, anime, and other images” that “unjustifiably glorify or exaggerate” certain sexual or pseudo sexual acts. The government can also directly regulate these images if the depicted acts are also “considered to be excessively disrupting of social order” such as rape.

In the press conference, a representative from the Weekly Asahi news magazine noted that Ishihara said in his 1972 book True Sex Education that “no book of any sort could instigate children toward crime or delinquency and that even if all undesirable books were wiped off the planet, crime would still take place.” When pressed about this, Ishihara responded that he was wrong at the time and the world is different now. He then characterized people who read and write the restricted material as “sad people with warped DNA.”

The self-regulation clauses of Bill 156 will go into effect on April 1 of next year, and the restrictions on sales and renting will go into effect on July 1. The current ordinance already prevents the sale and renting of “harmful publications” — materials that are “sexually stimulating, encourages cruelty, and/or may compel suicide or criminal behavior” to people under the age of 18.

Ishihara’s writings before he became a politician have inspireddōjinshi (self-published manga and other works) event next year. Opponents of Bill 156 contend that the content in Ishihara’s novels, if made into anime or manga, would be restricted by the amendment.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who have it, as for me I don’t care much. I will be sticking around here working on High School of the Dead vol 3 BD and waiting for Samurai Girl vol 1 BD to be released feel free to drop by.

enjoy your turkey ^_^

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Request

I wanna change my banner images to a new banner so I would like if someone who like anime and photoshop to donate me with a new banner the theme is Gundam Seed in winter with the group name Kira-Fansub
you can mail me the PSD or JPG on my E-mail: romeyo4ever at Gmail.com. also you can leave your anime request here but to make things clear I will be only doing the shows that worth doing and it’s different the TV release
Thanks
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