/jp/ - Otaku Culture

This has the stench of moral panic all over it. Otaku are disgusting, therefore we must ban the things we consider disgusting about them so we can protect the children.

Let's see what happens when the dust settles. This could either turn into something minor to work around like the censorship on genitalia in ero manga that is just a thin black bar, or a full on Comics Book Code situation where a publisher will have to decide if to go for mainstream appeal or purely otaku marketing. No gray area.

It's a shame, sure, and it will only serve to push anime and manga further into pariah territory, as if it wasn't looked down enough already. But there is a certain degree of overreacting going on at the moment that is clouding the facts.

The thing that really annoys me from this whole thing is the "for the children!" excuse. Sickening.