@@andrewcerberusok From all the censorhip that happens in the western world, censorhip of graphic content in manga should be your last priority.... Just saying.
@@jantekjantek That's senence is as narrow (and short) sighted as it can be, and you think that because manga/anime is not a priority for you, and you don't mind they censor it, but if they do this, what will happen when they decide to censor something you DO like, think about that, just saying. It would be just the tip of the iceberg. Censorship of artistic/creative freedom of expression is NEVER a good option, just because something doesn't appeal to your particular taste, doesn't mean it should be banned of existence, because when we go through that threshold, what's the limit, who's the right person to decide what everyone should be able to watch or read. That would bring us back to the dark ages, with an overly fanatic mindset, and everyone that doesn't follow some arbitrary set of overly strict rules is deemed a criminal. I just say: Let artists create their art with freedom in their hearts and minds, and allow them to be able to sell their artwork, and if someone doesn't like someone's art, it doesn't matter, there's plenty to choose from.
@@andrewcerberusok Well, they do create it, and it exists. Nobody forbids you from moving to Japan and enjoy their "censorship-free" (lol) society, if boobs and dicks in manga mean so much for you. Or buying uncensored version online. Not talking about mentioned AoT pants kind of censorship, that is just dumb and hilarious.
they don't want to solve those first 3... There is no benefit. they dont want everyone to be happy and prosper... they want to stand above people. the Idea that communism is bad means that sharing is bad.
Exactly. When people try to control others' choices or impose their standards on everything, it limits diversity and discourages genuine enjoyment. A more constructive approach would be for people to recognize that not everything has to align with their tastes, values, or comfort zones. If something doesn’t resonate with them, simply stepping away and finding something that does would prevent unnecessary conflict and allow a healthier coexistence of different perspectives. When people let others pursue what suits them, everyone gains the freedom to explore and express themselves without fear of judgment or interference. Society becomes richer with diverse ideas, and individuals feel more fulfilled because they’re engaging with what truly resonates with them rather than conforming to external pressures. Respecting different tastes and perspectives, rather than trying to control them, would foster a culture of acceptance and allow for a genuinely inclusive environment.
@@fgcgaming2530 You do realize Japan censoring things existed long before those things, right? They would censor certain body parts in porn, they would censor violence in video games, etc. Not everything has to do with the two obnoxious groups fighting in their precious little “culture war”.
The Hub is okay, Only Fans is okay, Suggestive Music Videos are okay, Live Action Series with gratuitous intimate scenes are okay. But Manga and Anime aren't. Someone please make this make sense.
They hate Japan literally that's just it they don't like their culture they don't like their political views they don't like anything about them this is a slow attempt to erase the culture because the culture is incompatible with 'the modern audience' so they'll slowly westernize it over the decades until there is no Japan there is only America light number 57 it's not just anime that they do this too it's literally any difference that Japan has
This makes me think that if "Game of Thrones" had been an anime, it would have been censored, and George R.R. Martin's manga of "A Song of Ice and Fire" would have been obliterated with censorship.
you're wrong. porn sites have to jump through many hoops in order to get CC companies to even allow them. They also usually have much higher fees than other sites and have to use less popular processors. It is the reason why Patreon changed their NSFW policy, because paypal and mastercard basically threatened them with the same. R18, a JAV website owned by FANZA/DMM, One of the biggest anime, manga, and JAV purcahsing websites, basically stopped operating outside of Japan due to the same issues. It is also why websites like Onlyfans don't allow certain types of porn and also why they try very hard to not be considered a porn company, but a "creator supporting" company.
@@tonyjohnson1580 You mean the CC companies force the porn sites to pay extra fees? Of course they do. They have an excuse to do so. Let me tell you a little secret: they don't care where money comes from as long as they are not liable for any damages, but if there is a LOT of money they'll risk even that. And porn is a LOT of money, much more than the Japanese loli cartoons.
@@ecchioni I was trying to show you that a lot of CC do have problems servicing porn sites and that being extremely popular doesn't always save you from the threats. Patreon was most likely threated, DMM was threatened, Onlyfans has to "lie" in order to prevent some of threats. There are countless other examples all around the web. Yes money does help, but only so much and a lot of the time "public" outrage from feminists and puritans can change that quick. Its one of the main reasons I wish the US had a neutral government owned card processing network like many other governments around the world.
This is dumb, if you’re not old enough to watch adult content, DONT WATCH IT Edit: If you get scarred for life or watch something inappropriate that’s on you don’t blame Japan.
Let's be real, everyone. This is happening because people still think animation or anything of the sort is just for kids and young teens. But they are OK watching celebrities perform soft core corn in movies and tv.
I feel like those are people that have never watched any of Seth mc farlene's shows. Like family guy, American dad, Cleveland show, etc. Those are perfect examples of cartoons for adults.
true, we have multiple wars going on, countries without food or water and more but they are only about something that doesn't matter in the beginning, this isn't just being bored, no this is being stupid
@ I agree but that’s only a crumb of what’s going on. They’re just over reaching into a department they have 0 experience and almost 0 knowledge of. Let Japan figure this out and the United Nations can go back to pretending to do their jobs with roleplaying roles.
Exactly!!! They want to censor my Jp entertainment and distract the woke people from those wars. They should be a shame that they are bowing to US woke. Like games, those western game is great in the beginning and become woke in the end and now suffer because Eastern games are doing better.
As a woman and a westerner, this is bullsh*t. Japan shouldn't have to censor their works just to please a bunch of oversensitive babies, not every single anime and manga is for kids nor is it bad for women. You don't like it? There's the door.
@@zerogamedev What I mean by that, I meant turn your business elsewhere and not ruin it for everyone. Like I don't like Teen Titans Go but I'm not going to go out of my way to ruin it for someone else.
But west credit card companies don't understand this. So they force Japan to censor their works to to please babies. And Japanese companies literally have no choice.
@@tomboyjessie1352 I agree that don't censor every single anime and manga but still those animes and mangas that cater towards teenage viewers literally shows over sexualisation and objectification of children and woman so that should be censored and I don't have to mention that Japan is literally sexist and misogynistic
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032 Are you being a hypocrite now? You seem to forget how your cater-to-teen idols like Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez dress pretty provocatively on set BTW.
We stand with you! This is ridiculous. I really hate how people in the West either see animations for kids or outright hate/jealous how Anime and Manga is more popular.
Yet here we are. Some very evil people have been centralizing their power for a long time to be able to do this to anyone that opposes their ideology. It won't just be anime they do this to. They want control of all currency and have the ability to turn it off on anyone that defies them.
@@RSQ_Darkmoon505 It would be great, but I wouldn't keep my hopes very high, because he's way too old to give a crap about manga/anime. Oftentimes that medium goes against at least some of the conservative values, and more importantly, it's not an american product.
Ahh, yes. Because the illustrations from Japan are more likely to make me commit crimes than the; 20+ American crime drama series that isn’t made with animation, or the 50+ British crime dramas, or the hundreds of documentaries about crimes and wars, or history books. Nope! Only the things from Japan will turn the people into violent monsters, apparently
Honestly, I found those who mock/insult Japan "cultural" arts, are more into crimes and fraud than those who do. We who love culture are not interested to constantly brag about it anyway
you're comparing two way different things. one is for history and the importance and saying why it was wrong. the other glorifies sexualized kids and alot of other nasty things.
@@HungrySquid-z9j Phub and onlyfans casually having straight cp on the site. Not to mention X/twitter. Do they care for that? No. If the reason stated was true they would not service those companies at all.
So games are tainted and movies are watered down and now sensitive people with too much free time are upset because they get scared of entertainment that does not involve them? Am i crazy for thinking this is wrong?
Hit the nail on the head and now they will lose their minds with a certain person now back in power. I couldnt care less about American politics but Ive become tired of the brain rot philosophy that has ruined generations over there and its insidious tentacles that have spread into Western culture. If the Orange Man can turn that around, then so be it. I may not be a fan but you wont here me complaining if he pisses off the right people. We need it now more than ever.
They already do. It's used all over Asia. Problem is is credit cards from the West can't be used for direct purchasing, so you have to go through a third party, usually one of the cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. It's an effective system because it makes it really hard for Westerners to purchase stuff online.
@@Is_This_Really_Necessary Or... one of the 'middle man' services that charges you the cost of the item plus shipping and a bit extra so they actually make some profit.
They do, and it is horrible to use outside of intended countries. You practically have no access to their direct payment if you are in the US. Some exceptions though. Just reminds me of having to try to use linepay to buy something in the US. But with linepay you need a japanese phone number with a japanese address.
This sucks. I haven’t watched yet but writers should be free to write whatever they want. Age ratings exist for a reason. If they want to make it borderline hentai, they can, but it must be rated appropriately and have the relevant trigger warnings and content warnings.
Do you even know that most hentai are literally about rape and there are hardly any adult manga us that covers consensual and protected sex and if it not mostly objectify women and it is not just about a writer should be free to write whatever they want, it is also about what they are writing ok you cannot write anything even something that it is wrong
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032 I mean yeah, but you really don't have to read such works. There is a reason why they usually warn you about such things, writers should have the freedom to write whatever they want to write or draw given the trigger warnings and age ratings are there.
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032Even if that was true, it doesn't matter. People should be able to make fictional content about whatever they want. Even if someone wants to make a story about a baby eating rapst's journey to kill everyone in the world, so be it. Adults should be able to enjoy any fiction they want in private.
It's terrible. I love anime and manga. I followed it since the late 1960s when I watched Astro boy. It's part of Japanese culture. To censor it is interfering with their culture. That's forcing other countries beliefs and ideas on them. May I have the right to do whatever the hell they want. And we the fans have the right to read it or watch it as long as we don't commit any crimes.
The UN wants to censor anime & manga for being too violent, sexual, & sometimes stereotypical. Meanwhile (at least in the UK), we have teen pregnancies & domestic violence (verbal, physical, and emotional) in showams like emadail, coronation Street, & eastenders. We also have married at first sight, love island, naked attraction, naked dateing, & milf manner yet nobody does anything about any of that. I'm not hating on any fans of those shows (like what you like), but companies can't make the violent and sexual argument & completely ignore the shit we have herer. Knowing that, im almost certain the UN only wants to censor anime because of business reasons. They see how popular anime & manga are & eather... 1. want to cash in on it but are too scared because of how explicit anime & manga are. Or 2. They want to drive consumers away from it by taking away what they love about it & do it for no other reason other than to try & make more profit for themselves. That's my theory anyway.
This is how piracy becomes the only way to view all this stuff. Piracy will skyrocket, sales will decline, and many economies and livelihoods will suffer for it. But it’s the only way we can actually preserve stuff these days.
@@coltonwilliams4153lol say what u will but I already have a lot of ecchi and uncensored anime on blue ray including things like konosuba and interspecies reviewers and much more new animes.
@@newguy371If you ran either of those companies, would you rather lose an entire country worth of customers or permit illustrated adult entertainment?
@Antsaboy94 Depends on the country. Considering that in Japan, it's almost impossible to get a credit card, and debit cards are non-existent, I'd have no problem with losing them as a customer. I wouldn't really be losing much. It would be a bigger problem for Japan, as it would make it difficult for its citizens to make international purchases.
"Why do I have to censor my works for a bunch of ignorant Gaijin, when I only intend for my works to be read by the native Japanese?" -Any Japanese Mangaka and Creator and The Inherent Problem with Forcing 'Global Standards' onto Japan
Who is to say all non Japanese want anime and manga to be censored? Honestly as a person from America I enjoy thing's to not be censored. Governments should back off telling people what they can and cannot watch. Adults should be able to watch whatever we want. Children should have there parents control what they watch and not the government.
This is actually another reason why many artists, mostly indie, "pretend" not noticing the pirated content all over Internet. They usually more faithful than the localized content
For me I feel disappointed in the West even though I'm from western side ( USA ) . I believe Japan has free expression and rights without censorship. What will happen in the future if things keep happening right now. It will affect other creators in the future.
The more important thing is who is paying to censor this, because we all now that Visa and others just want money and they would never go out of their way to cancel partnership out of morality. I think this could easily spread to not just anime but any sort of free expression on the internet if the person has enough money.
@@Lamb_clips456 Christian boomers, pretty much. If you trace it all the way back, it comes to a huge society of various anti p rn, pro Christian groups.
It doesn’t. The UN passes dozens of these resolutions annually and they are all completely voluntary because the UN has no enforcement power whatsoever. I remember 6 or 7 year’s ago when the UN passed a resolution on lolicon and the entire anime community freaked the fuck out about it. Nothing came of it of course for the same reason nothing will come of this. These resolutions are mere international circlejerks and have no teeth. The only one responsible for any censorship in Japan is the Japanese government (which ironically has stricter laws than most western countries and it’s illegal to depict genitalia in media without pixelating it.)
Japan DO have credit company other than Visa and Mastercard, which is *JCB* , and it has been used to bypass censorships already for years. The scary part of this manga library z incident is that it's not only credit companies this time, it's smaller intermediary companies that got threatened by them and backed off, so even JCB wouldn't work. *This* is something new that got the attention.
Sadly it might. There were some scenes in recent anime that were censored, even the JP audio, for the western release. The JP release was different. If the west forces them to do more they won't have the resources to make two releases (one JP, one for the west), so they will just censor it for everyone. And the anime / manga companies are very dependent on the western release (bought licenses), so to avoid losing a lot of money they'll just do it.
amazing how america had to constitutionally force japan to give women the vote post ww2 and yet japan is still near bottom of the world for female equity according to the rankings
this is stupid, it's fictional media, not real content. It's stupid that they're doing to this to artist, Art is supposed to be creativity, and letting yourself be free with whatever.
Just because it is fictional media and art is creative that doesn't mean that what you are going to do is also right especially promoting rape in hentai and also the heavy excessiveness of porn and these things are literally fucking up the minds of a lot of people especially when sometimes censorship is important and not to mention most if not, Manga and Anime literally objectify and sexualise women to the extent that it is borderline disgusting
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032 buddy this is art and it is not real so stop complaining about it. This is bad. censorship creativity is a bad thing. there are limits what you can do but at the end of the day it is entertainment not real life
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032 censorship in any form is bad bro. If you cant handle whats being shown or dont like whats being shown then just stay away from it. No matter how derisive it is, people should be allowed to view it in the state that the author or artist intended it to be viewed
@@supersonicmario56 You think people do that because they love it so much? TH-cam keeps shadowbanning comments if they contain certain words, and you can never be certain when and why that will trigger, since it isn't ever explained anywhere. Sometimes some random word is fine, and in the next comment suddenly it isn't. People are forced to type this way to get their comments through without having to constantly check and rephrase.
It’s entirely possible that the censorship and international boycotting from companies may be seen as an attack on Japanese culture. I’d guess that they are very proud of what they do would probably possibly be quite outraged that their livelihoods and being endangered or ruined.
Yeah, it's like this: Porn = It's legal because they pay actress to act not to prostitute. Bikini = It's legal because it's a fashion Guns = It's legal because for self defence Anime = NOT LEGAL, because it's too dangerous and can give negative impact on society
@@ErikaBernLambda Majority? Something is seriously wrong with you if it's the majority in whatever you're watching. You're trying to call someone else out for being a creep but exposing yourself as the real creep in the process.
1:23 just because it contains a topic, doesn’t mean it promotes said topic. Otherwise all WWII content would be labelled as… you know… just for containing everyone’s favourite Austrian painter.
It doesn't really matter. Free speech is free speech, even if something you consider immoral is presented in a good light. This is precisely the point of age restrictions.
@@HungrySquid-z9j It's fiction: if someone is so weak as to be influenced in real life, it's their own fault. So yes, as long as it's fictional I have no problem defending sexualization, violence or any fetish you can think of. No one has the right to ban something just because they don't like it.
Uh, I thought they already gotten to all North American movies and AAA games? They just recently turned a dark fantasy game into mostly therapy sessions about inclusively among your party members. Are you sure this hasn't happened already? Because it sure looks like that.
@@bottomtext593 sadly it's still lots of wasted time and energy. With new generations getting a bad example of the franchise. Which means they might not return to it.
@@bottomtext593 They are fanatics, so yes. They are also severely overestimating how many people they have on their side since they tend to be very loud on social media. So I don't think they will give up until the investors grow a backbone and put competent people in charge to clean house, or until the company goes under, whatever comes first. Ubi Soft's investors reacted too late, no saving them. Square's might or might not be in time, some of them are waking up. Entertainment companies like Disney are even worse but they still have their parks even if the constant prices to fund all the incompetence have started to hurt them as well. But we will see a lot of both game and film studios go away very soon.
That's one thing that's a breath of fresh air for me, why would they censor it? Not to mention plenty of anime have characters who are also exceptions to stereotypes as well so it's fair game.
Not all of us women oversexualize and objectify ourselves, hello? Majority of us don't. What kind of stupid argument is that? I'm as against OF as I am against fanservice in anime. Just because some women subject themselves to that, doesn't mean we need men taking advantage of that and jumping on the bandwagon. Japan already suffers from HUGE SA problems and other issues with women equality and how they're viewed in their country.
Yakamatsu deciding to shut down the site instead of bending the knee takes guts. He also said he will find other “counter measures”. That’s a good thing and hopefully he finds a way to screw the card companies
So I can go on literal corn sites and pay with a card there but that same card company wants to censor anime?? Our banking overlords at it again in their tiny little hats
Well, credit card companies USED to do business with P--nHub; but then, a New York Times writer wrote a hit piece on that site, alleging that it carries CSAM. As a result, all of the credit card companies cut ties with that site.
I think porn sites got into the same exact issues with Mastercard and Visa for the same reasons a while ago. I think it was Pornhub. Patreon has become way more restrictive too because of this stuff.
Not defending the card company here, but they're kinda forced by people who INSIST anime and manga are exposing children/ underage. Yep, those activist who scream "literal child" bs.
Sounds like the industry completely forgot the last time they tried censoring anime and manga via 4Kids; might as well just regress even further back to the 80's where they hacked apart and spliced together footage to "adapt" content like Robotech and Warriors of the Wind
that what i say this wont work also didnt the modern industry like comic and movies and etc did that and the phrase "if you dont like my poli dont buy my comics" isnt this how the raise of indie happen? all this do is make them leave and what stoping japan making their own? seriously this is a short sited actions that history already proven will ultimately fail
United States citizens have been seeing the reality become very apparent over the past 12 years. We have very little control over our legal system and it does not apply to the richest people at all. Trump will probably have the most control of any presidency so far if he is elected, but I feel he is the worst possible candidate. He might reverse this decision on anime, but he will restrict the rights of minorities a lot harder and prevent any discussion of diversity.
Anime and Manga are one of Japan's biggest money makers. Its not going anywhere. Plus this goes against freedom of speech and expression. So chill... unlesd you watch dubbed anime
@@jbone6246 and XD lets see where they get their money now they forget they dont have anything worth wild worth spending without the customer their noting all their doing is making japan more improtant
@SirStrikeFreedom You're not thinking about how Mastercard and Visa cards allow you to order anime/manga and have it sent to you. If Mastercard and Visa refuses to allow you to make payments to sites that host anime/manga, how are you going to get it and support your favorite artist? This is a big deal. Mastercard and Visa are the biggest transaction parties in the world.
@BlackPhoenix313 do you really believe Japan wouldn't find a way to resolve this? They will create new payment methods if they have to and make it accessible to everyone. That's how big anime is there. It's too big of a money maker to allow Westerners to shut down. Japan isn't stupid... just weird
@@Diamondr11Blue they’re fine for the bath scenes, but not for the beach. Swimsuits exist for a reason. The people who are like “think of the children” need to NOT bypass the age restrictions by buying it for their kid and instead listening to the content warnings and having their kids watch something else.
The fact that there are some people celebrating this thinking it's only going to affect one aspect of Japanese entertainment is not only disheartening, but also terrifying. They let their obsession of hating anime/ manga over there style and tastes is what leads companies to gain so much power in the first place. And they don't understand that it's not just the things they don't like about anime that's being affected by this, but the terrifying thing about it is that they don't really care and are willing to burn the entire industry to the ground based on their own beliefs. The implications of this actually threatens free speech because it opens the door for companies to threaten the livelihood of others as they see fit.
Basically it censors things i dont like f everybody else who did like that thing, they have no compassion for others, a normal person would just ignore and move to a different series
I hate these damn companies so much!!! I have been suffering mentally for years after being bullied and how i was scared to express my true self and pretended to be someone I'm not. And now i finally feel comfortable to express myself for who i really am and not care what anyone thinks of me anymore and freely express my interests. And now these damn companies are doing this crap?! Now these filthy monkeys wanna control us like this?! I don't wanna go back to not freely expressing myself anymore and just bending the knee to these psychos!!
One of the few ways we can get through to the card companies is by PHYSICALLY showing up in front of those companies' corporate headquarters, in the THOUSANDS, and hold mass demonstrations to protest against their attempts at censoring Japanese culture! Another way is by pressuring the U.S. Congress into creating a law that would make all card companies and payment processors public utilities. Once they're declared public utilities, then they'll be absolutely obliged to perform ALL legal financial transactions that are asked of them, INCLUDING adult content from foreign countries like Japan!
The problem is that they don’t have a say. If credit card companies decide they don’t want to allow certain transactions then there’s nothing Japan can do about it. We have to be the ones to make the change by swapping credit/debit card companies in order to show Visa and Mastercard that they don’t have a say in how we spend our money.
The issue is that American banks don't want to be associated to hentai, or porn. So they of course are going to block anything they see as sexual from being used by their credit cards. They don't know the difference between anime/manga from hentai/doujinshi. They just go 'nope' as a broad blanket thing and it sucks because credit cards are not 'the customers money to do what they want with' it is the banks money they lend to the customer so the banks decide what they want their money to be spent on all the time. lots of things are black listed from credit cards so by American Express, Mastercard and Visa blocking the use an forcing this place to close is no shock. Also yes I know people use their cards for porn subscriptions but there is a reason it never shows up as that company but something else under the card process to keep the banks from turning off the tap.
Shocking fact, is that some of the big American banks have a history of washing money for terrorists. So they have no problem indirect connections to terrorists, but heaven forbid they get associated with anime titties
I’m from the UK and have no idea what American banks is like but you said not to be associated with pornography yet you can pay on sites like OF and other adult platforms but then as soon as it comes to Japanese content they don’t want to be associated.
@@HardMODE-It is a questionable double standard. Makes me wonder why they hate anime so much over irl pornography. The only conclusions I come to are that it's either the country it came from (maybe these companies just hate Japan) or it's that anime can be inspiring and takes effort to make (they don't want working people getting inspired to do things other than work).
@@ratedr7845 I mean is anyone ever wholeheartedly into work? Especially minimum wage work. There may be some, but I don't think many people love working for barely anything in general. They just have to do it for money.
Imagine your bank not allowing you to not purchase magazines with your money in a local store, just because they don't like that content. CC companies are basically doing this right now.
i was rewatching SAO ordinal scale on crunchyroll the otherday. they censored the Asuna bath scene again. now it doesn't show you her getting out. barely saw anything to begin with😂. these censorships are just getting pathetic. grumpy old boomers decideing they don't like it so we can't enjoy it
The UN must stay away from anime, manga, and video games from Japan. It is getting old. Keep politics away from entertainment. Nobody cares about censorship anymore. You cannot intimidate us adults and teens as misbehaving kids. Grow up. Japan doesn't need this. Ain't anybody got time for that!👎👎
Censorship creative is a bad thing there is limit what you can do with it but this is art and most of the time when works get censorship it get worse and lost it magic
When I kid, I have always wanted to see something that is far more bad-ass than just kids animation that I was used to, back in my early years in elementary school, my parents would never let me broaden my horizons with this much adult animation, until I was about 13. Anime is what helped broaden my horizons beyond the western media and I was proud of it.
This is so stupid, we as fans should voice our objection to the Card companies revoking payments from catering sites like Manga Library Z, never heard of it, but now want access to that. That's BS if the users are legitimately conducting in fair business.
Nah, i think blackrock is involved here again. Like they are right now with shows where they put wokies into studios and ruin everything, so they can pump and dump. Lowering the stock of those companys to pump and dump them is probaly their strategy.
@@tomboyjessie1352because too many people who claim to be the 'modern audience' has slipped into most media and businesses and whispered in the ears of people who don't know anything that censorship and change is good. Think about it. This wasn't a problem twenty years back and at worse it was 4kids. Now they want to censor the last form of good expression while they push things that they like that's similar. Pattern recognition my good individual
This censorship and and company boycotting is awful. They are affecting people’s livelihoods! All because they aren’t willing to tolerate. Sure you don’t respect, but at least tolerate! Freedom is important. Heck, this is extra hypocritical if the payment services were American, since America is all about freedom of speech and expression. I’m saying “if” as I don’t know if they are or not.
Visa, Mastercard and American Express are all American companies. Also America is the only western nation that always tries to censor every bit of uncovered skin. Nudity isn't an issue anywhere in Europe (except maybe for the UK, not entirely sure)
They're basically posing sanction, imagine yourself having no choice but to accept digital currency as they make up rules that you never agreed upon. That's the future.
Petitions are a good start as it lets others know how you feel. But sadly this is one of those instances where a high level system (credit card companys) has taken sides. They basically have a monopoly on the transfer of money. And alternatives like Paypal are just as bad if not worse.
They already are... there's actual Japanese government officials that traveled to credit card companies' headquarters and confronted the company management directly. They basically said, "Dang, that's happening? Well... we didn't do that. Maybe some stupid employ did without permission." So it's an ongoing investigation
@@Serjo777 I thought it was pretty clear. There's a Japanese government official that saw credit card companies forcing censorship on platforms like Pixiv and was like, "Well, that's screwed up." So he traveled in person to the credit card company headquarters and talked to the managers saying it was screwed up. The company managers said, "Yeah, that is screwed up, but we did not make that decision. Someone must have done this without approval from their boss." so they are investigating how it happened.
I hope it's just the card company and not America itself. It is time to replace these card companies. I've been watching anime all my life uncut and I refuse to let them censor it. TAKE DOWN THE CORRUPT COMPANIES WHO DARE TO INTERFERE WITH CREATIVE FREEDOM!
This is such a stupidity of the aging boomers that think animation is only for children. What I will say is in America, age ratings on anime should be more emphasised on physical discs as well as streaming like in the UK and Australia. An age certificate has a purpose. Not CENSORING THE ENTIRE JAPANESE ANIMATION GENRE.
@@HungrySquid-z9j We found one! Boys and girls, we found one of the crazy people that can't disassociate fiction from reality! Let me get real for a second. If you think people become PDFs because they see a loli, that's absolutely not how that works. They're at most going to grow a thing for fictional minors. And if the problem is that you're simply discomforted by seeing it, you're way too focused on enforcing your views of reality upon a fictive medium.
@HungrySquid-z9j Isn't that just declining freedom of expression?? :( If you don't like that stuff I'd advise you to avoid it instead of telling others what and what not to draw
@@Karmanaraif they do that, then the fans, the one that following anime culture since before it becoming mainstream in the west will drop it, won't watch at all
We gotta petition this come on people we can't let them destroy the things we love they are really going to force japan to censor their own content its dumb and tyrannical you can't force someone to do something just because you don't like it
petition can be ignore, especially from the one with as much power as those card company, the only thing that will do is an attack against their business operation, make them lose money, a lot of it
They can't do this to us anime fans here in The United States of America where I live. I can see and know that adult content is not for kids but please don't do this to anime and manga.
I've watched anime since I was a kid, 5yo, now 35yo, so 30 years, and nothing has made me a better person, when it comes to media, as anime. Sure, gore, kills, sex, mature stuff is there, that's life, but not in all. And I don't watch hentai, which is shit just like porn, it distorts you mind on sex. Anime made me have more morals, calm, and be better person. Mushishi, Naruto, Bleach, One piece etc. These are stories that are just grand, much better than what Hollywood ever produced. Death note, claymore, Berserk, hunter x hunter.... They all show value in friendship, goodness, self sacrifice for greater goals, hard work, and that struggle is overcome by strong character! Meanwhile Hollywood pushes DEI, gender surgeries, transitioning kids, puberty blockers, lewd 304 behavior and greed etc
This is a long way to go to spite a country. The west makes HR sermons and critical race theories as cartoons and games while the east makes entertainment we enjoy, so they're cutting the competition instead of trying for an actual audience. Censoring things to keep kids from it won't work either. Some things shouldn't be seen by kids, but if they're seeing things parents think are too adult for them so easily, that's their fault. It's easy for kids to access OFs and see their teachers naked for $5, which honestly feels like the bigger problem.
I didn’t survive 7 Months Supporting Combat Operations in the Southern Red Sea to live in a world where the UN forces Japan to Censor Anime and Manga. We fight to defend Freedom and Democracy Around The World. Anime and Manga have gotten me through my Darkest Hours Post Deployment, hours where I almost unalived myself. Forcing censorship like this will only lead to war. Oh God. The rumors were true. We really are in the early stages of World War III. War. War Never Changes.
Im against censorship to, but Personally I don’t think anything too severe is going to happen because a similar thing happened I think 7 or 8 years ago nothing happened, and yes most of The no game no life light novels had been removed from Amazon but they’re still available on the Crunchyroll store, books a million, and Barnes and Nobel and Western credit card companies (including Visa and Mastercard like mentioned in the video) are still supporting those websites so even they stop supporting a website that sells certain series they’re likely still supporting a different website thats selling the same stuff, and even if they get pulled from certain websites they’re likely still going to be on different websites, so not only is what the video brought up Likely not going to happen simply because it would be ineffective because theirs too many ways to get around them and a lot of people who are saying they’re going to start pirating are likely going to pirate anyway.
Why do we even have the Rating System then!?! If they are forced to censor their content, why bother giving them an 18 plus rating!?! Stop it! This is doing nothing but pissing us off!! Japan, please don't do this, it's not worth it!!
Problem is that most parents have neither the time, or desire to involve themselves in their kids' life. So they give them a phone, a computer, internet access, etc., without any attempt to know what they're actually getting into. Kid: "Mom, Dad! Can I have a Funimation subscription so I can watch anime?" Parents: "What's anime?" Kid: "Just cartoons." Parents: "Oh, that seems fine then." Kid: *High School DxD intensifies* Parents: "God damnit this is all Japan's fault!"
The question is why are credit card companies doing this? It's anticapitalist. Capitalism is about profit over everything. So why are they taking a moral stance in the first place? Who is in control here and what are their intentions?
I don’t tend to watch Anime or read Manga these days, but the fact that creators (both in Japan and abroad) are being forced to censor their work is ridiculous. Age Rating Orgs exist for a reason.
just imagine if the west is doing this because anime is getting more recognition and is becoming more and more popular than hollywood and western shows and films
Exactly. When people try to control others' choices or impose their standards on everything, it limits diversity and discourages genuine enjoyment. A more constructive approach would be for people to recognize that not everything has to align with their tastes, values, or comfort zones. If something doesn’t resonate with them, simply stepping away and finding something that does would prevent unnecessary conflict and allow a healthier coexistence of different perspectives. When people let others pursue what suits them, everyone gains the freedom to explore and express themselves without fear of judgment or interference. Society becomes richer with diverse ideas, and individuals feel more fulfilled because they’re engaging with what truly resonates with them rather than conforming to external pressures. Respecting different tastes and perspectives, rather than trying to control them, would foster a culture of acceptance and allow for a genuinely inclusive environment.
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it"
-Mark Twain
And that's exactly what's happening here.
@@andrewcerberusok From all the censorhip that happens in the western world, censorhip of graphic content in manga should be your last priority.... Just saying.
@@jantekjantek All censorship is bad.
@@jantekjantek That's senence is as narrow (and short) sighted as it can be, and you think that because manga/anime is not a priority for you, and you don't mind they censor it, but if they do this, what will happen when they decide to censor something you DO like, think about that, just saying.
It would be just the tip of the iceberg.
Censorship of artistic/creative freedom of expression is NEVER a good option, just because something doesn't appeal to your particular taste, doesn't mean it should be banned of existence, because when we go through that threshold, what's the limit, who's the right person to decide what everyone should be able to watch or read.
That would bring us back to the dark ages, with an overly fanatic mindset, and everyone that doesn't follow some arbitrary set of overly strict rules is deemed a criminal.
I just say: Let artists create their art with freedom in their hearts and minds, and allow them to be able to sell their artwork, and if someone doesn't like someone's art, it doesn't matter, there's plenty to choose from.
@@andrewcerberusok Well, they do create it, and it exists.
Nobody forbids you from moving to Japan and enjoy their "censorship-free" (lol) society, if boobs and dicks in manga mean so much for you. Or buying uncensored version online.
Not talking about mentioned AoT pants kind of censorship, that is just dumb and hilarious.
Solving world hunger❌
Solving Wars or preventing them❌
Solving poverty ❌
Censoring Anime✅
"Priorities of the UN" 101.
Do you think President Trump to stand against this farce?
More like false peaces.
Organization of corrupt people united
they don't want to solve those first 3... There is no benefit.
they dont want everyone to be happy and prosper... they want to stand above people.
the Idea that communism is bad means that sharing is bad.
Please Japanese people, defend your culture, defend anime.
Censorship is the poison that weakens all societies.
Yes Defend Japan against Identity Politics and Wokeism
Like 4Kids
I agree
Exactly. When people try to control others' choices or impose their standards on everything, it limits diversity and discourages genuine enjoyment. A more constructive approach would be for people to recognize that not everything has to align with their tastes, values, or comfort zones. If something doesn’t resonate with them, simply stepping away and finding something that does would prevent unnecessary conflict and allow a healthier coexistence of different perspectives.
When people let others pursue what suits them, everyone gains the freedom to explore and express themselves without fear of judgment or interference. Society becomes richer with diverse ideas, and individuals feel more fulfilled because they’re engaging with what truly resonates with them rather than conforming to external pressures. Respecting different tastes and perspectives, rather than trying to control them, would foster a culture of acceptance and allow for a genuinely inclusive environment.
@@fgcgaming2530 You do realize Japan censoring things existed long before those things, right? They would censor certain body parts in porn, they would censor violence in video games, etc. Not everything has to do with the two obnoxious groups fighting in their precious little “culture war”.
The Hub is okay, Only Fans is okay, Suggestive Music Videos are okay, Live Action Series with gratuitous intimate scenes are okay. But Manga and Anime aren't. Someone please make this make sense.
They hate Japan literally that's just it they don't like their culture they don't like their political views they don't like anything about them this is a slow attempt to erase the culture because the culture is incompatible with 'the modern audience' so they'll slowly westernize it over the decades until there is no Japan there is only America light number 57 it's not just anime that they do this too it's literally any difference that Japan has
This makes me think that if "Game of Thrones" had been an anime, it would have been censored, and George R.R. Martin's manga of "A Song of Ice and Fire" would have been obliterated with censorship.
Right? They only have a problem with Anime and Manga but everything else is fine. What is wrong with the world?
That's because it's not about *insert political buzzword of the week*, it's about control.
@@artix548 ...and monopoly and the power that comes with it.
Yet those CC companies have no problem servicing the porn sites.
They removed it from PH before they had to delete millions of vids
@@thend4427 PH was using vids without paying royalties. It's supported again.
you're wrong. porn sites have to jump through many hoops in order to get CC companies to even allow them. They also usually have much higher fees than other sites and have to use less popular processors. It is the reason why Patreon changed their NSFW policy, because paypal and mastercard basically threatened them with the same. R18, a JAV website owned by FANZA/DMM, One of the biggest anime, manga, and JAV purcahsing websites, basically stopped operating outside of Japan due to the same issues. It is also why websites like Onlyfans don't allow certain types of porn and also why they try very hard to not be considered a porn company, but a "creator supporting" company.
@@tonyjohnson1580 You mean the CC companies force the porn sites to pay extra fees? Of course they do. They have an excuse to do so. Let me tell you a little secret: they don't care where money comes from as long as they are not liable for any damages, but if there is a LOT of money they'll risk even that. And porn is a LOT of money, much more than the Japanese loli cartoons.
@@ecchioni I was trying to show you that a lot of CC do have problems servicing porn sites and that being extremely popular doesn't always save you from the threats. Patreon was most likely threated, DMM was threatened, Onlyfans has to "lie" in order to prevent some of threats. There are countless other examples all around the web. Yes money does help, but only so much and a lot of the time "public" outrage from feminists and puritans can change that quick. Its one of the main reasons I wish the US had a neutral government owned card processing network like many other governments around the world.
This is dumb, if you’re not old enough to watch adult content, DONT WATCH IT
Edit: If you get scarred for life or watch something inappropriate that’s on you don’t blame Japan.
In addition, if your old enough and don't like it....DON'T WATCH IT. It's that simple. But of course, the west wants to control everything.
Exactly!
Bro facts
@GhostRamenYT exactly but pepple always think everything have to be kid friendly
Exactly hope this doesn’t effect Gushing over magical girls season 2
Let's be real, everyone. This is happening because people still think animation or anything of the sort is just for kids and young teens. But they are OK watching celebrities perform soft core corn in movies and tv.
They put a lot of gay and sex scenes into shows those days....and its bad. Heck they ruin the source of some shows like this.
I feel like those are people that have never watched any of Seth mc farlene's shows. Like family guy, American dad, Cleveland show, etc. Those are perfect examples of cartoons for adults.
@@angelo98447 Another cartoon for adults is South Park.
Meanwhile in Southpark...
@@angelo98447 I love the original three Seasons of Family Guy it’s great but yeah it sucks that people literally still think like this.
United Nations can’t even solve global conflict so who are they to tell animators what to do with their work in 2024.
You right. We have so many wars and the UN do nothing. The UN was created for peace, not for censorship.
Wokeism are the ones making it a problem...
true, we have multiple wars going on, countries without food or water and more but they are only about something that doesn't matter in the beginning, this isn't just being bored, no this is being stupid
@ I agree but that’s only a crumb of what’s going on. They’re just over reaching into a department they have 0 experience and almost 0 knowledge of. Let Japan figure this out and the United Nations can go back to pretending to do their jobs with roleplaying roles.
Exactly!!! They want to censor my Jp entertainment and distract the woke people from those wars. They should be a shame that they are bowing to US woke. Like games, those western game is great in the beginning and become woke in the end and now suffer because Eastern games are doing better.
As a woman and a westerner, this is bullsh*t.
Japan shouldn't have to censor their works just to please a bunch of oversensitive babies, not every single anime and manga is for kids nor is it bad for women. You don't like it? There's the door.
you are 100% correct, and card companies chose the door, now what?
@@zerogamedev What I mean by that, I meant turn your business elsewhere and not ruin it for everyone. Like I don't like Teen Titans Go but I'm not going to go out of my way to ruin it for someone else.
But west credit card companies don't understand this. So they force Japan to censor their works to to please babies. And Japanese companies literally have no choice.
@@tomboyjessie1352 I agree that don't censor every single anime and manga but still those animes and mangas that cater towards teenage viewers literally shows over sexualisation and objectification of children and woman so that should be censored and I don't have to mention that Japan is literally sexist and misogynistic
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032 Are you being a hypocrite now? You seem to forget how your cater-to-teen idols like Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez dress pretty provocatively on set BTW.
As a anime fan we will protect Japanese culture no matter what 🖕🏻censorship
Instead censor the opinions of Larry Fink, Bob Iger and Kim Belair
Do you think President Trump to stand against this farce?
Y'all won't. Japan didn't even protect themselves.
Can't believe they didn't censor the middle finger emoji
*WE JAPANESE ARE NOT TAKING THIS!!* 🇯🇵
*We are collectively standing against this!*
We stand with you! This is ridiculous.
I really hate how people in the West either see animations for kids or outright hate/jealous how Anime and Manga is more popular.
As an American, please stand against this. I most certainly stand with you on this issue. Leave anime alone
If you are Japanese then good to know the west is losing market so now they trying to ruins it with woke and agenda
we are with you.
I love anime and manga and what's happening is really disgraceful.
Please do. Never let this win.
We stand with you!✊️
No company should have the power to block off all money from other companies
Yet here we are. Some very evil people have been centralizing their power for a long time to be able to do this to anyone that opposes their ideology. It won't just be anime they do this to. They want control of all currency and have the ability to turn it off on anyone that defies them.
Those are the consequences of having too much power, and very little competition.
that's very antisemitic...
Do you think President Trump help us of this situation ?!
@@RSQ_Darkmoon505 It would be great, but I wouldn't keep my hopes very high, because he's way too old to give a crap about manga/anime.
Oftentimes that medium goes against at least some of the conservative values, and more importantly, it's not an american product.
Ahh, yes. Because the illustrations from Japan are more likely to make me commit crimes than the; 20+ American crime drama series that isn’t made with animation, or the 50+ British crime dramas, or the hundreds of documentaries about crimes and wars, or history books. Nope! Only the things from Japan will turn the people into violent monsters, apparently
Honestly, I found those who mock/insult Japan "cultural" arts, are more into crimes and fraud than those who do. We who love culture are not interested to constantly brag about it anyway
you're comparing two way different things. one is for history and the importance and saying why it was wrong. the other glorifies sexualized kids and alot of other nasty things.
First it was video games now it’s anime. Things never change.
@@HungrySquid-z9j Phub and onlyfans casually having straight cp on the site. Not to mention X/twitter. Do they care for that? No. If the reason stated was true they would not service those companies at all.
@HungrySquid-z9j I mean I agree cuties is gross, but I don't see how any of that goes against anime and Manga.
When the UN can't find any humanitarian victories when it comes to nations at war, it beats down artists and animators for their dopamine.
So games are tainted and movies are watered down and now sensitive people with too much free time are upset because they get scared of entertainment that does not involve them? Am i crazy for thinking this is wrong?
Hit the nail on the head and now they will lose their minds with a certain person now back in power. I couldnt care less about American politics but Ive become tired of the brain rot philosophy that has ruined generations over there and its insidious tentacles that have spread into Western culture.
If the Orange Man can turn that around, then so be it. I may not be a fan but you wont here me complaining if he pisses off the right people. We need it now more than ever.
You're not the only one . Kinda just shows these people have no life and it's on the phone 24/7 , no hobbies , no interest, no personality
Bring back beautiful women in games
Japan should create their own credit card companies and payment processors.
Every country should. We have something similar here that turns bitcoin into money and back, but fees are high.
@@rowsdower84 not only japan most countries
They already do. It's used all over Asia. Problem is is credit cards from the West can't be used for direct purchasing, so you have to go through a third party, usually one of the cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. It's an effective system because it makes it really hard for Westerners to purchase stuff online.
@@Is_This_Really_Necessary Or... one of the 'middle man' services that charges you the cost of the item plus shipping and a bit extra so they actually make some profit.
They do, and it is horrible to use outside of intended countries. You practically have no access to their direct payment if you are in the US. Some exceptions though. Just reminds me of having to try to use linepay to buy something in the US. But with linepay you need a japanese phone number with a japanese address.
This sucks. I haven’t watched yet but writers should be free to write whatever they want. Age ratings exist for a reason. If they want to make it borderline hentai, they can, but it must be rated appropriately and have the relevant trigger warnings and content warnings.
Do you even know that most hentai are literally about rape and there are hardly any adult manga us that covers consensual and protected sex and if it not mostly objectify women and it is not just about a writer should be free to write whatever they want, it is also about what they are writing ok you cannot write anything even something that it is wrong
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032 I mean yeah, but you really don't have to read such works. There is a reason why they usually warn you about such things, writers should have the freedom to write whatever they want to write or draw given the trigger warnings and age ratings are there.
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032Even if that was true, it doesn't matter. People should be able to make fictional content about whatever they want.
Even if someone wants to make a story about a baby eating rapst's journey to kill everyone in the world, so be it.
Adults should be able to enjoy any fiction they want in private.
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032 what about works that cover it in a realistic context and covers the trauma - like berserk
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032 Dont talk to us about "objectifying" when the top media women consume and rate highly IS EXACTLY THAT
It's terrible. I love anime and manga. I followed it since the late 1960s when I watched Astro boy. It's part of Japanese culture. To censor it is interfering with their culture. That's forcing other countries beliefs and ideas on them. May I have the right to do whatever the hell they want. And we the fans have the right to read it or watch it as long as we don't commit any crimes.
virgin og anime fan: I'm and old timer, I started back with original Dragon Ball Z runs.
Chad richt63: I started with Astro Boy.
Japan censored their own anime, btw
OMG WHY CANT THEY LEAVE ANIME ALONE!?
IM SICK OF THEM ATTACKING ANIME
Capitalism, they won't sleep on things that is popular and gain more money than them
The UN wants to censor anime & manga for being too violent, sexual, & sometimes stereotypical.
Meanwhile (at least in the UK), we have teen pregnancies & domestic violence (verbal, physical, and emotional) in showams like emadail, coronation Street, & eastenders.
We also have married at first sight, love island, naked attraction, naked dateing, & milf manner yet nobody does anything about any of that.
I'm not hating on any fans of those shows (like what you like), but companies can't make the violent and sexual argument & completely ignore the shit we have herer.
Knowing that, im almost certain the UN only wants to censor anime because of business reasons.
They see how popular anime & manga are & eather...
1. want to cash in on it but are too scared because of how explicit anime & manga are.
Or
2. They want to drive consumers away from it by taking away what they love about it & do it for no other reason other than to try & make more profit for themselves.
That's my theory anyway.
NO they want to ban it all. Dictators always ban porn and make women cover up more.
This is how piracy becomes the only way to view all this stuff.
Piracy will skyrocket, sales will decline, and many economies and livelihoods will suffer for it. But it’s the only way we can actually preserve stuff these days.
You can't pirate something unless has been public one way or another. Meaning you now have to travel to the site, scan it then you can pirate it
That’s not going to work. If the censorship is at the source, there won’t be a non censored product to pirate.
@@nobbyfirefly57 if its the studio is censoring it themselves, there will not be any "original source".
How would it skyrocket? You are still viewing censored crap.
@@coltonwilliams4153lol say what u will but I already have a lot of ecchi and uncensored anime on blue ray including things like konosuba and interspecies reviewers and much more new animes.
The government of Japan needs to ban those credit card from their country.
Sure. Let's see how that works out for them.
@@newguy371If you ran either of those companies, would you rather lose an entire country worth of customers or permit illustrated adult entertainment?
@Antsaboy94 Depends on the country. Considering that in Japan, it's almost impossible to get a credit card, and debit cards are non-existent, I'd have no problem with losing them as a customer. I wouldn't really be losing much. It would be a bigger problem for Japan, as it would make it difficult for its citizens to make international purchases.
such a low IQ idea lol. It's just anime and a country is a thousand times more important than shows
@@AegisEdge You don’t know anything about negotiation.
"Why do I have to censor my works for a bunch of ignorant Gaijin, when I only intend for my works to be read by the native Japanese?"
-Any Japanese Mangaka and Creator and The Inherent Problem with Forcing 'Global Standards' onto Japan
Who is to say all non Japanese want anime and manga to be censored?
Honestly as a person from America I enjoy thing's to not be censored.
Governments should back off telling people what they can and cannot watch.
Adults should be able to watch whatever we want.
Children should have there parents control what they watch and not the government.
Its not global standards its usually California standards in these things.
This is actually another reason why many artists, mostly indie, "pretend" not noticing the pirated content all over Internet. They usually more faithful than the localized content
Yep no country should have no control over another countrys entire medium
@@chessoc7799 What are you on about? What California has to do with it?
Blackrock owns 7.3% of Mastercard and 7.8% in Visa.
I bet this is their doing
You aren't wrong
"force behaviors"
Anime is becoming more mainstream than Hollywood slop.
Those damn blackrock orcs causing trouble again.
its time to call in the alliance!
And you know the Trumppublicans aren’t gonna do a damn thing about it
company forcing a country to change their culture is disgusting and unethical
Do you think President Trump to stand against this farce?
For me I feel disappointed in the West even though I'm from western side ( USA ) . I believe Japan has free expression and rights without censorship.
What will happen in the future if things keep happening right now. It will affect other creators in the future.
The more important thing is who is paying to censor this, because we all now that Visa and others just want money and they would never go out of their way to cancel partnership out of morality. I think this could easily spread to not just anime but any sort of free expression on the internet if the person has enough money.
@@Lamb_clips456 blackrock wef who un eu world bank etc
@@Lamb_clips456 Christian boomers, pretty much.
If you trace it all the way back, it comes to a huge society of various anti p rn, pro Christian groups.
whats wrong with stopping the sexualization of underage kids?
@@HungrySquid-z9jthey are not real.
If you’re worried about kids worry about ACTUAL CHILDREN. Not drawings.
The UN should not have this much power.
Especially if it's gonna use it for stuff like this, instead of actually preventing wars
They have very little power and are ignored on lots of stuff. But they are one more group calling for this.
It doesn’t. The UN passes dozens of these resolutions annually and they are all completely voluntary because the UN has no enforcement power whatsoever. I remember 6 or 7 year’s ago when the UN passed a resolution on lolicon and the entire anime community freaked the fuck out about it. Nothing came of it of course for the same reason nothing will come of this. These resolutions are mere international circlejerks and have no teeth. The only one responsible for any censorship in Japan is the Japanese government (which ironically has stricter laws than most western countries and it’s illegal to depict genitalia in media without pixelating it.)
It should but they should use it for things that actually matter
It doesn't actually have any power. It can only make recommendations. Individual nations/corperation have to then follow those suggestions or not.
Censorship is the death of art and writing.
And people defend censorship.
At least right up until something they like gets censored
You're unable to look at the big picture, that's why you don't get why censorship is necessary.
@@truthspreader1996 You call yourself "Truth Spreader", but yet you want to censor things that you disagree with... Imagine my shock!
@@REALFrancoStudios Well the only thing I disagree with are lies so yes I'm imagining your shock.
@@truthspreader1996 Let me guess... Hmm...
Trump won buddy. MAGA!
This will never happen. Japan will come up with thier own payment methods. The west may loose alot of translations for future manga and anime
that's why you use pirate sites, fan translations are usually on par with localizer translations if not motre accurate in some cases
But in the meantime, how many artists will be affected by this?
Japan DO have credit company other than Visa and Mastercard, which is *JCB* , and it has been used to bypass censorships already for years. The scary part of this manga library z incident is that it's not only credit companies this time, it's smaller intermediary companies that got threatened by them and backed off, so even JCB wouldn't work. *This* is something new that got the attention.
Do you think President Trump to stand against this farce?
Sadly it might. There were some scenes in recent anime that were censored, even the JP audio, for the western release. The JP release was different. If the west forces them to do more they won't have the resources to make two releases (one JP, one for the west), so they will just censor it for everyone. And the anime / manga companies are very dependent on the western release (bought licenses), so to avoid losing a lot of money they'll just do it.
United Nations trying not to be a joke challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
amazing how america had to constitutionally force japan to give women the vote post ww2 and yet japan is still near bottom of the world for female equity according to the rankings
They have become a joke
this is stupid, it's fictional media, not real content. It's stupid that they're doing to this to artist, Art is supposed to be creativity, and letting yourself be free with whatever.
Just because it is fictional media and art is creative that doesn't mean that what you are going to do is also right especially promoting rape in hentai and also the heavy excessiveness of porn and these things are literally fucking up the minds of a lot of people especially when sometimes censorship is important and not to mention most if not, Manga and Anime literally objectify and sexualise women to the extent that it is borderline disgusting
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032 buddy this is art and it is not real so stop complaining about it. This is bad. censorship creativity is a bad thing. there are limits what you can do but at the end of the day it is entertainment not real life
@jxhxhkzhjz8032 i feel sorry for your wife's bf if you had a wife, onlyfans models dont count
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032explain me why south park has not been canceled yet despite touching much more delicated or controversial subjects everynow and then?
@@jxhxhkzhjz8032 censorship in any form is bad bro. If you cant handle whats being shown or dont like whats being shown then just stay away from it. No matter how derisive it is, people should be allowed to view it in the state that the author or artist intended it to be viewed
OF and corn sites
America: nah this is alright 🤗🤑🤗
Anime and Manga.
America:This is an outrageous censorship now🤐🤐🤐
OnlyFans and porn.
So tired of the self-censoring...
@@mpangamponga1514 truly a america moment
@@supersonicmario56 You think people do that because they love it so much? TH-cam keeps shadowbanning comments if they contain certain words, and you can never be certain when and why that will trigger, since it isn't ever explained anywhere. Sometimes some random word is fine, and in the next comment suddenly it isn't. People are forced to type this way to get their comments through without having to constantly check and rephrase.
OF is straight up prostitution. Which is actually illegal in some places, contrary to porn.
isn't it the card companies in america and not America itself?
It’s entirely possible that the censorship and international boycotting from companies may be seen as an attack on Japanese culture. I’d guess that they are very proud of what they do would probably possibly be quite outraged that their livelihoods and being endangered or ruined.
They should be. Companies that try to stifle free ..
.. speech or artistic freedom in whatever form need to be bankrupted.
Yeah, it's like this:
Porn = It's legal because they pay actress to act not to prostitute.
Bikini = It's legal because it's a fashion
Guns = It's legal because for self defence
Anime = NOT LEGAL, because it's too dangerous and can give negative impact on society
It's because it hurts the fefails feelings seeing attractive fictional women and men enjoying entertainment that wasn't made by them
@@gatorwarrior7557 majority of those fictional woman are 16 bro
@@ErikaBernLambda Majority? Something is seriously wrong with you if it's the majority in whatever you're watching. You're trying to call someone else out for being a creep but exposing yourself as the real creep in the process.
Doesn’t America confuse itself from the differences between a man and a woman? 😂
Only a small faction.
1:23 just because it contains a topic, doesn’t mean it promotes said topic. Otherwise all WWII content would be labelled as… you know… just for containing everyone’s favourite Austrian painter.
It doesn't really matter. Free speech is free speech, even if something you consider immoral is presented in a good light. This is precisely the point of age restrictions.
@@manuelferrari6685Tell that to China.
anime often glorifies underage kids being sexualized. japan glorifies it too. very weird that you want to protect that.
@@HungrySquid-z9j It's fiction: if someone is so weak as to be influenced in real life, it's their own fault. So yes, as long as it's fictional I have no problem defending sexualization, violence or any fetish you can think of. No one has the right to ban something just because they don't like it.
@@HungrySquid-z9j "glorifies"
that's frankly, a buzzword.
Listen....if they start here......theyll keep going with movies and games and more. THIS IS HOW IT STARTS. THEY WRAP IT IN BULLSHIT FALSE MORALITY.
Uh, I thought they already gotten to all North American movies and AAA games? They just recently turned a dark fantasy game into mostly therapy sessions about inclusively among your party members.
Are you sure this hasn't happened already? Because it sure looks like that.
@@loke6664 The good news is that their attempt is flopping horribly but these guys seem DETERMINED
@@bottomtext593 sadly it's still lots of wasted time and energy. With new generations getting a bad example of the franchise. Which means they might not return to it.
@@bottomtext593 They are fanatics, so yes. They are also severely overestimating how many people they have on their side since they tend to be very loud on social media.
So I don't think they will give up until the investors grow a backbone and put competent people in charge to clean house, or until the company goes under, whatever comes first.
Ubi Soft's investors reacted too late, no saving them. Square's might or might not be in time, some of them are waking up.
Entertainment companies like Disney are even worse but they still have their parks even if the constant prices to fund all the incompetence have started to hurt them as well.
But we will see a lot of both game and film studios go away very soon.
America will allow fights but won't let skin show lol
Screw censorship
Seconded.
may all in favor raise a hand
@@Lamb_clips456raise 2. They do not need to censor skim on grown ppl just bc some fans are jealous
Ironic that you're forced to say screw instead of fuck
@@JacktheStripper-tc5pn Many ways to say it. One need only be imaginative to invoke said imagery. 😜
"...promoting gender stereotypes..."
oh no! the horror!
That's one thing that's a breath of fresh air for me, why would they censor it? Not to mention plenty of anime have characters who are also exceptions to stereotypes as well so it's fair game.
OF and corn sites where women oversexualise themselves won't get censored,but drawings do🙄🙄🙄
Oh they will be this always get what we can get the rest later.
Not all of us women oversexualize and objectify ourselves, hello? Majority of us don't. What kind of stupid argument is that? I'm as against OF as I am against fanservice in anime. Just because some women subject themselves to that, doesn't mean we need men taking advantage of that and jumping on the bandwagon. Japan already suffers from HUGE SA problems and other issues with women equality and how they're viewed in their country.
@@konpeitosama JUST DONT WATCH Amime then... but leave the rest of us ALONE!
Yakamatsu deciding to shut down the site instead of bending the knee takes guts. He also said he will find other “counter measures”. That’s a good thing and hopefully he finds a way to screw the card companies
Ken Akamatsu would basically need to create his very own credit card company. I wonder if he could afford to do that.
@@jeffzebert4982 How much would it cost him? Pretty sure the whole of anime lovers worldwide would fund it for him and use the card.
Do you think President Trump to stand against this farce?
There has to be some ground to sue them. This isn't fair practice. Make them regret their abusive attempts.
hard to sue the people that make the rules...what are they gonna do, follow the rules they created to the tee? hell no
thats a free option
So I can go on literal corn sites and pay with a card there but that same card company wants to censor anime?? Our banking overlords at it again in their tiny little hats
Just wait until you find out how popular spider-man x venom yoai is in Japan💀
Well, credit card companies USED to do business with P--nHub; but then, a New York Times writer wrote a hit piece on that site, alleging that it carries CSAM. As a result, all of the credit card companies cut ties with that site.
I think porn sites got into the same exact issues with Mastercard and Visa for the same reasons a while ago. I think it was Pornhub. Patreon has become way more restrictive too because of this stuff.
Not defending the card company here, but they're kinda forced by people who INSIST anime and manga are exposing children/ underage. Yep, those activist who scream "literal child" bs.
They rub their hands in frustration when people ignore the content they have Chosen to promote, and watch something else.
Sounds like the industry completely forgot the last time they tried censoring anime and manga via 4Kids; might as well just regress even further back to the 80's where they hacked apart and spliced together footage to "adapt" content like Robotech and Warriors of the Wind
that what i say this wont work also didnt the modern industry like comic and movies and etc did that and the phrase "if you dont like my poli dont buy my comics" isnt this how the raise of indie happen? all this do is make them leave and what stoping japan making their own? seriously this is a short sited actions that history already proven will ultimately fail
America... i thought you were about freedom... this is the opposite... do better...
United States citizens have been seeing the reality become very apparent over the past 12 years. We have very little control over our legal system and it does not apply to the richest people at all. Trump will probably have the most control of any presidency so far if he is elected, but I feel he is the worst possible candidate. He might reverse this decision on anime, but he will restrict the rights of minorities a lot harder and prevent any discussion of diversity.
Anime and Manga are one of Japan's biggest money makers. Its not going anywhere. Plus this goes against freedom of speech and expression.
So chill... unlesd you watch dubbed anime
Exactly. Worst case scenario they pull licensing for broadcasting outside of Japan for some of their shows.
Even so, censorship ain't cool.
@@jbone6246 and XD lets see where they get their money now they forget they dont have anything worth wild worth spending without the customer their noting all their doing is making japan more improtant
@SirStrikeFreedom You're not thinking about how Mastercard and Visa cards allow you to order anime/manga and have it sent to you.
If Mastercard and Visa refuses to allow you to make payments to sites that host anime/manga, how are you going to get it and support your favorite artist?
This is a big deal. Mastercard and Visa are the biggest transaction parties in the world.
@BlackPhoenix313 do you really believe Japan wouldn't find a way to resolve this? They will create new payment methods if they have to and make it accessible to everyone. That's how big anime is there. It's too big of a money maker to allow Westerners to shut down.
Japan isn't stupid... just weird
This is how we got smoking lollipops
don't forget the jelly filled doughnuts
@@abandoned-userbath towel on in the water like it's not gonna get soaking wet
lollipops did worse to sanji's voice than cigarettes ever could
That’s a different reason
@@Diamondr11Blue they’re fine for the bath scenes, but not for the beach. Swimsuits exist for a reason. The people who are like “think of the children” need to NOT bypass the age restrictions by buying it for their kid and instead listening to the content warnings and having their kids watch something else.
The fact that there are some people celebrating this thinking it's only going to affect one aspect of Japanese entertainment is not only disheartening, but also terrifying. They let their obsession of hating anime/ manga over there style and tastes is what leads companies to gain so much power in the first place.
And they don't understand that it's not just the things they don't like about anime that's being affected by this, but the terrifying thing about it is that they don't really care and are willing to burn the entire industry to the ground based on their own beliefs.
The implications of this actually threatens free speech because it opens the door for companies to threaten the livelihood of others as they see fit.
they want everyone else to make stuff on the tier of the Acolyte as well, no meritocracy allowed, no taking customers allowed
Basically it censors things i dont like f everybody else who did like that thing, they have no compassion for others, a normal person would just ignore and move to a different series
Animation isn't just for kids
TH-cam isn't just for kids
Goldfish isn't just for kids
IT'S FOR EVERYBODY.
I hate these damn companies so much!!! I have been suffering mentally for years after being bullied and how i was scared to express my true self and pretended to be someone I'm not. And now i finally feel comfortable to express myself for who i really am and not care what anyone thinks of me anymore and freely express my interests. And now these damn companies are doing this crap?! Now these filthy monkeys wanna control us like this?! I don't wanna go back to not freely expressing myself anymore and just bending the knee to these psychos!!
Remember the card companies got a twitter and email or contact us, use them!
One of the few ways we can get through to the card companies is by PHYSICALLY showing up in front of those companies' corporate headquarters, in the THOUSANDS, and hold mass demonstrations to protest against their attempts at censoring Japanese culture!
Another way is by pressuring the U.S. Congress into creating a law that would make all card companies and payment processors public utilities. Once they're declared public utilities, then they'll be absolutely obliged to perform ALL legal financial transactions that are asked of them, INCLUDING adult content from foreign countries like Japan!
Honestly if I was Japan I'd tell America "Fine, fuck off, we're not censoring shit for you. Get over yourselves."
Same.
yee, funny how americans Holywood like to add unnecessary sex scenes into their movies, but anime? no no no
i hate censor culture
Don't like it, don't watch it. Best advice ever, wish more people followed it
But, isn't it unprofitable to insult the literal country from which many of your viewer or reader demographic are frim
The problem is that they don’t have a say. If credit card companies decide they don’t want to allow certain transactions then there’s nothing Japan can do about it. We have to be the ones to make the change by swapping credit/debit card companies in order to show Visa and Mastercard that they don’t have a say in how we spend our money.
If you don't like it, don't watch. Its that simple. Why ruin it for others who do like it? -_-
Because that's how authoritarian people are. It's also precisely why they should never be allowed in positions of power.
because its wrong to like and glorify the sexualization of kids.
Because the ones who did it are miserable and don’t want anyone else to be happy.
@@HungrySquid-z9j No, it isn't.
The issue is that American banks don't want to be associated to hentai, or porn. So they of course are going to block anything they see as sexual from being used by their credit cards.
They don't know the difference between anime/manga from hentai/doujinshi. They just go 'nope' as a broad blanket thing and it sucks because credit cards are not 'the customers money to do what they want with' it is the banks money they lend to the customer so the banks decide what they want their money to be spent on all the time.
lots of things are black listed from credit cards so by American Express, Mastercard and Visa blocking the use an forcing this place to close is no shock. Also yes I know people use their cards for porn subscriptions but there is a reason it never shows up as that company but something else under the card process to keep the banks from turning off the tap.
Shocking fact, is that some of the big American banks have a history of washing money for terrorists. So they have no problem indirect connections to terrorists, but heaven forbid they get associated with anime titties
I’m from the UK and have no idea what American banks is like but you said not to be associated with pornography yet you can pay on sites like OF and other adult platforms but then as soon as it comes to Japanese content they don’t want to be associated.
@@HardMODE-It is a questionable double standard. Makes me wonder why they hate anime so much over irl pornography. The only conclusions I come to are that it's either the country it came from (maybe these companies just hate Japan) or it's that anime can be inspiring and takes effort to make (they don't want working people getting inspired to do things other than work).
@@iceprism367 it's happening anyways, younger gens are not into work anymore
@@ratedr7845 I mean is anyone ever wholeheartedly into work? Especially minimum wage work. There may be some, but I don't think many people love working for barely anything in general. They just have to do it for money.
Imagine your bank not allowing you to not purchase magazines with your money in a local store, just because they don't like that content. CC companies are basically doing this right now.
This is outrageous. The world does not need a world government of naive kids.
This is the Reason why Jonathan Irons wants to declare war with them
I think it's silly but it's not worth crying over, I know the west are a bunch of weaklings but it's not like it's gonna be the end of the world.
Let's keep it uncensored
i was rewatching SAO ordinal scale on crunchyroll the otherday. they censored the Asuna bath scene again. now it doesn't show you her getting out. barely saw anything to begin with😂. these censorships are just getting pathetic. grumpy old boomers decideing they don't like it so we can't enjoy it
STOP USING THIS SITE AND VISIT PIRATE ONES THAT DONT HAVE CENZORSHIP :D
Heck stop giving them money.
your first mistake was using Crunchyroll 🤣
just sail the sea mate
censorship will never end
Using Crunchyroll was your first mistake
The UN must stay away from anime, manga, and video games from Japan. It is getting old. Keep politics away from entertainment. Nobody cares about censorship anymore. You cannot intimidate us adults and teens as misbehaving kids. Grow up. Japan doesn't need this. Ain't anybody got time for that!👎👎
Why not censor Hollywood
I feel like the Marvel movies are what a censored Hollywood would look like. There is no depth to most of them.
LET US PROTECT OUR ANIME WAIFU FROM THESE DISGUSTING CORRUPTED WEIRDOS AT THE WEST! And this is coming from the west itself, Godbless Japan!
@@Gordonfreeman551 yeah for our Anime Grannys
I stand for waifus and 2D babes ^^
We shall protect our anime girls from censorship
And guys. Nothing should be censored not to this degree
Protect waifus!
you guys do know you sound hella cringe🤭
@@AegisEdge I know right 😂
real question here, why do you want underage girls to be put in sexual situations?
Censorship creative is a bad thing there is limit what you can do with it but this is art and most of the time when works get censorship it get worse and lost it magic
Demon slayer fans are promoting it too
Act fans arent but normies who got into it bc it was trendy are pro censorship
Stand tall stand strong Japan.
When I kid, I have always wanted to see something that is far more bad-ass than just kids animation that I was used to, back in my early years in elementary school, my parents would never let me broaden my horizons with this much adult animation, until I was about 13. Anime is what helped broaden my horizons beyond the western media and I was proud of it.
Yep it broke limitations in terms of animation and stories, it was a whole other world when i first watched, why it will always be unique
This is so stupid, we as fans should voice our objection to the Card companies revoking payments from catering sites like Manga Library Z, never heard of it, but now want access to that.
That's BS if the users are legitimately conducting in fair business.
That's just evil censor to your work To appeal to the "modern audience" or make getting money a hell of a lot harder to get.
Nah, i think blackrock is involved here again. Like they are right now with shows where they put wokies into studios and ruin everything, so they can pump and dump. Lowering the stock of those companys to pump and dump them is probaly their strategy.
I'm pretty sure that there's modern day people who would love to see stuff uncensored, so I don't see how this tactic appeals to anyone except SJWs.
@@tomboyjessie1352because too many people who claim to be the 'modern audience' has slipped into most media and businesses and whispered in the ears of people who don't know anything that censorship and change is good.
Think about it. This wasn't a problem twenty years back and at worse it was 4kids.
Now they want to censor the last form of good expression while they push things that they like that's similar.
Pattern recognition my good individual
This censorship and and company boycotting is awful. They are affecting people’s livelihoods! All because they aren’t willing to tolerate. Sure you don’t respect, but at least tolerate! Freedom is important.
Heck, this is extra hypocritical if the payment services were American, since America is all about freedom of speech and expression.
I’m saying “if” as I don’t know if they are or not.
It's all loving and tolerant...that is until they disagree with someone.
Visa, Mastercard and American Express are all American companies. Also America is the only western nation that always tries to censor every bit of uncovered skin. Nudity isn't an issue anywhere in Europe (except maybe for the UK, not entirely sure)
censorship is disgusting, especially for another country’s entertainment culture
They're basically posing sanction, imagine yourself having no choice but to accept digital currency as they make up rules that you never agreed upon. That's the future.
Is there no way we can petition this BS?
Petitions are a good start as it lets others know how you feel.
But sadly this is one of those instances where a high level system (credit card companys) has taken sides. They basically have a monopoly on the transfer of money. And alternatives like Paypal are just as bad if not worse.
They already are... there's actual Japanese government officials that traveled to credit card companies' headquarters and confronted the company management directly.
They basically said, "Dang, that's happening? Well... we didn't do that. Maybe some stupid employ did without permission." So it's an ongoing investigation
@@Sobbleboy27 That doesn't make any sense at all, wtf are you talking about?
@@Serjo777 I thought it was pretty clear. There's a Japanese government official that saw credit card companies forcing censorship on platforms like Pixiv and was like, "Well, that's screwed up." So he traveled in person to the credit card company headquarters and talked to the managers saying it was screwed up.
The company managers said, "Yeah, that is screwed up, but we did not make that decision. Someone must have done this without approval from their boss." so they are investigating how it happened.
@@Sobbleboy27 Source? Cause no way a singular employee did this
I scan assure you that the people most likely to be abusers or violent are not watching anime or reading manga. This is stupidity at its finest.
What if they are? What kind of nothing burger argument is this? Not even saying I disagree, but still
Ive watched anime since elementary with Toonami and i still a pacifist i avoid drama
@thinkbetter5286 speaking of burgers, I bet they eat at mcDonalds too! Shut that down, it's supplying the abusers w cheap sustenance!
@@thinkbetter5286 bro what if they do not?
I hope it's just the card company and not America itself. It is time to replace these card companies. I've been watching anime all my life uncut and I refuse to let them censor it. TAKE DOWN THE CORRUPT COMPANIES WHO DARE TO INTERFERE WITH CREATIVE FREEDOM!
And Trump will not do anything but to divide us even further
I'm American and I'm all for uncensored works
Bro I’m never getting an accurate anime of Berserk
Ong bro🙏
This is such a stupidity of the aging boomers that think animation is only for children.
What I will say is in America, age ratings on anime should be more emphasised on physical discs as well as streaming like in the UK and Australia. An age certificate has a purpose. Not CENSORING THE ENTIRE JAPANESE ANIMATION GENRE.
inb4 we get region locked out of any japanese media
Make Anime Niche Again
make anime not sexualize minors
@@HungrySquid-z9j We found one! Boys and girls, we found one of the crazy people that can't disassociate fiction from reality!
Let me get real for a second. If you think people become PDFs because they see a loli, that's absolutely not how that works. They're at most going to grow a thing for fictional minors. And if the problem is that you're simply discomforted by seeing it, you're way too focused on enforcing your views of reality upon a fictive medium.
@@HungrySquid-z9j based
@HungrySquid-z9j
Isn't that just declining freedom of expression?? :( If you don't like that stuff I'd advise you to avoid it instead of telling others what and what not to draw
@@HungrySquid-z9j Go away tourist
And how do they want people to NOT pirate then?
huh what? this is about credit card.. they don't care if you pirate or not
@@Linuxfy he's talking about in the future, if they DO decided to censor manga and anime
@@Karmanaraif they do that, then the fans, the one that following anime culture since before it becoming mainstream in the west will drop it, won't watch at all
They are gunning to censor the content at the source directly, not just region specific versions
We gotta petition this come on people we can't let them destroy the things we love they are really going to force japan to censor their own content its dumb and tyrannical you can't force someone to do something just because you don't like it
At your command sir!
petition can be ignore, especially from the one with as much power as those card company, the only thing that will do is an attack against their business operation, make them lose money, a lot of it
@@Nekoyamanekotama true but how do we even go about it?
XD Japanese Porn and Hentai are already Censored what more do they want 🤣🤣
to not exist
to be banished to the shadow realm
That's the thing, guy: They want it to not exist at all.
WHOA!!
Censoring anime & manga in Japan is worse than being Hospitalised!
This sounds like imperialism.
yes
A new era of pirates will rise.
They can't do this to us anime fans here in The United States of America where I live. I can see and know that adult content is not for kids but please don't do this to anime and manga.
Its not even because of adult content its because they draw women accurate
I've watched anime since I was a kid, 5yo, now 35yo, so 30 years, and nothing has made me a better person, when it comes to media, as anime. Sure, gore, kills, sex, mature stuff is there, that's life, but not in all. And I don't watch hentai, which is shit just like porn, it distorts you mind on sex. Anime made me have more morals, calm, and be better person. Mushishi, Naruto, Bleach, One piece etc. These are stories that are just grand, much better than what Hollywood ever produced. Death note, claymore, Berserk, hunter x hunter....
They all show value in friendship, goodness, self sacrifice for greater goals, hard work, and that struggle is overcome by strong character! Meanwhile Hollywood pushes DEI, gender surgeries, transitioning kids, puberty blockers, lewd 304 behavior and greed etc
This is a long way to go to spite a country. The west makes HR sermons and critical race theories as cartoons and games while the east makes entertainment we enjoy, so they're cutting the competition instead of trying for an actual audience.
Censoring things to keep kids from it won't work either. Some things shouldn't be seen by kids, but if they're seeing things parents think are too adult for them so easily, that's their fault. It's easy for kids to access OFs and see their teachers naked for $5, which honestly feels like the bigger problem.
I didn’t survive 7 Months Supporting Combat Operations in the Southern Red Sea to live in a world where the UN forces Japan to Censor Anime and Manga.
We fight to defend Freedom and Democracy Around The World.
Anime and Manga have gotten me through my Darkest Hours Post Deployment, hours where I almost unalived myself.
Forcing censorship like this will only lead to war.
Oh God. The rumors were true. We really are in the early stages of World War III.
War. War Never Changes.
Im against censorship to, but Personally I don’t think anything too severe is going to happen because a similar thing happened I think 7 or 8 years ago nothing happened, and yes most of The no game no life light novels had been removed from Amazon but they’re still available on the Crunchyroll store, books a million, and Barnes and Nobel and Western credit card companies (including Visa and Mastercard like mentioned in the video) are still supporting those websites so even they stop supporting a website that sells certain series they’re likely still supporting a different website thats selling the same stuff, and even if they get pulled from certain websites they’re likely still going to be on different websites, so not only is what the video brought up Likely not going to happen simply because it would be ineffective because theirs too many ways to get around them and a lot of people who are saying they’re going to start pirating are likely going to pirate anyway.
this is stupid what is this diffeent of 50 shades or gray or any erotic visual novel sold in the west?
Why do we even have the Rating System then!?! If they are forced to censor their content, why bother giving them an 18 plus rating!?! Stop it! This is doing nothing but pissing us off!! Japan, please don't do this, it's not worth it!!
もし、クレジットカードが使えなくなったら日本側がアニメや漫画を国内でしか観れないように規制するかもしれませんね…
American Express and JCB are about to get really popular.
What are those?
@@tomboyjessie1352 the other major credit card companies but i dont know if they have global service like MC/visa.
@@ddxinthehouse Ohhhh.
This would be a HUGE mistake.
Shhhh, let them learn it the hard way 😏.
This sentence summarize it really well
“If you are not old enough, DON’T WATCH IT”
Problem is that most parents have neither the time, or desire to involve themselves in their kids' life. So they give them a phone, a computer, internet access, etc., without any attempt to know what they're actually getting into.
Kid: "Mom, Dad! Can I have a Funimation subscription so I can watch anime?"
Parents: "What's anime?"
Kid: "Just cartoons."
Parents: "Oh, that seems fine then."
Kid: *High School DxD intensifies*
Parents: "God damnit this is all Japan's fault!"
@dread_kaathulhu4903 Just need to pray that the parents do care about their kid what's to watch, and teach what is right or wrong.
The question is why are credit card companies doing this? It's anticapitalist. Capitalism is about profit over everything. So why are they taking a moral stance in the first place? Who is in control here and what are their intentions?
this is why we should've never allowed governments and companies to have control over us.
Ah classic, western just want dominance in everything 😂😂😂😂
they did create the modern world lol
I don’t tend to watch Anime or read Manga these days, but the fact that creators (both in Japan and abroad) are being forced to censor their work is ridiculous. Age Rating Orgs exist for a reason.
Anime is too popular now. Lots of new people/groups/companies are pushing their expectations - in the end we get more censorship.
just imagine if the west is doing this because anime is getting more recognition and is becoming more and more popular than hollywood and western shows and films
That's exactly why they're doing it. Larry Fink wanting to "force behaviors"
There goes the double standards. Yet, they do not censor those kpop thingamabobs...
Exactly. When people try to control others' choices or impose their standards on everything, it limits diversity and discourages genuine enjoyment. A more constructive approach would be for people to recognize that not everything has to align with their tastes, values, or comfort zones. If something doesn’t resonate with them, simply stepping away and finding something that does would prevent unnecessary conflict and allow a healthier coexistence of different perspectives.
When people let others pursue what suits them, everyone gains the freedom to explore and express themselves without fear of judgment or interference. Society becomes richer with diverse ideas, and individuals feel more fulfilled because they’re engaging with what truly resonates with them rather than conforming to external pressures. Respecting different tastes and perspectives, rather than trying to control them, would foster a culture of acceptance and allow for a genuinely inclusive environment.