An email has been going around urging people to sign
this petition:
To: George Bush
Some people are signing against anime and are calling is to be a "perverse, evil, insiduous form of animation from the dark land of Japan, and is corrupting America's youth at unprecedented rates." Anime is NOT corrupting the youth of America, and since when has America become a country of Christians? Isn't there a SEPARATION of Church and State? Isn't this a ban on our Freedom of Speech? And Freedom of Press? What does anime have to do with brainwashing our youth?
Even though I'm not sure what 'signing against anime' is supposed to mean, I do know that there is no movement underfoot by any politician to ban anime. But it's worth scrolling through the messages left by the 4129 people who signed the petition. Some of them are quite amusing.
Comments
And Teen Titans and JLU are not commercials. They both tell deep and meaningful stories, and I'll put the quality of their writing up against any show the networks air.
Also pretty well impossible. How could write a law banning "anime" in a way that wouldn't also ban just about every other movie or cartoon?
If you do that, then you must also get rid of R- rated movies, and pretty much ANYTHING that might be offensive to people!!! There is no law that says you HAVE to watch or read anything that has to do with Manga or Anime. You have the CHOICE to aviod it just as some religions tell you to aviod R- rated movies or drinking alchohol. Just a thought.
Besides, why ban cartoons based on the country of origin?! While we're at it, we might as well confiscate all the Czech, French, and British cartoons too.
Please. Read. A. Book.
I can remember, vaguely, a small group who picketed the White House in the 50s demanding that animals be made to wear clothes. It was a hoax then and this is something similar as far as I can tell.
Anime can be good or bad, just like Hollywood movies. I like anime and would protest any serious effort to ban it. It might get tried, there was an effort to ban comics in the early 50s, and comic magazines were made unlawful which is why they are called comic books now. Regardless of how this turns out, anime will continue in America - if it does get banned, the name will change and nothing else.
Ban On Anime...
Thanks for that interesting post. It makes great reading!
if you choose which anime you watch and manga you read, you won't find any pronography or "Fan Service of any kind. Anime has a rating just like anything else and you can eaasily avoid harmful content. Secondly, i'm an Otaku, i'm not stinky, and have alot of friends, hardly any of them otaku or comic book fans or whatever. I wish people would stop being so narrow minded.
Otaku means house.
Tentacles are positivly arousing.
Now let's join hands and hum.
A few people here though think that any such peition id pointless and won't change anything. Well, that's about as stupid as some anime or hentai are. What would happen if Martin Luther King in the 60's said, "wow, this is pointless and won't change a thing anyways." Get the point? And to the person comparing the usefulness of this petiton to the ban-ashley-simpson petition, well as far as I know, ashley simpson isn't sigining any record deals lately - or any deals.
Can't you enjoy anything these days?!
Deep down, everyone has perverse thoughts anyway, no one can escape their own minds. So in reality, people against this kind of thing for that reason, are all hypocrits.
To me banning it would be the same as going to hollywood and saying porn,romance,horror,comedy,etc.. movies/shows should be taken off the air
if you watch alot of anime u will see there are all different kinds it only matters waht you like
.if they banned anime then they would also ban all comics (and there movies like superman,spider-man they are "comics " (american MANGA) )
B) the petition is the work of some person named Dennis Fuller, which may or may not be a false name.
C)The petition itself is racist, by calling Japan "the dark land of Japan."
D)Anime can be as spiritual as a bible, to as commercial as Dual Masters, or as intimate as D N Angel to as perverse as La Blue Girl(which I believe is considered hentai.) and as to hentai being drawn porn, that is just what it is used to describe in America, just as some Americans call Sepuku Hari-Kari. There is no way they can ban anime from America, it would be just as effective as banning video games, or, as already stated, R-rated movies.
Thank you to all who read this, and I would love any responses you can give me to this entry, so I know how to improve for possible later posts. Thank you for your time,
Darrell, Shoujo Otaku Forever.
my god, I do sooo love to joke around. But in all seriousness, what's wrong with the anime huh?
IT WAS A JOKE! GET OVER IT!
...brainless peons...(mumble mumble) <.<;
Anime would be exactly the same way. Compare to all the other cartoons on TV. The PowerPuff Girls, for instance. Three little girls with superpowers made by some wacked out professor who was messing around in his lad. Everyone absolutely loves them, but I think they're stupid. The show's not very realistic.
And I'm not saying Anime is always realtistic. Inuyasha, for example, has a girl that falls in a well and goes back to the feudal era. However, if you pay attention to what happens, they act like real people. Jealousy, hurt, anger, happiness, love, the whole nine yards, they do it. There's more rivalry than just between good and bad, which is how real life is.
Also the fact that anime is much more educational. Since they use alot of Japanese(even in the shows that have been changed to English) it helps children, and adults, to start learning another language.
Banning anime would be pointless because it would make America's youth even dumber, and also we'd still find ways to get it.