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  Viet

  1 year ago

  You should fix your links.. They are point to no-no land.
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  Onimusha Nosferatu

  1 year ago

  hi lee. movies like battle royale and suicide club shouldn’t be blamed for ppl’s actions. (my sensei did tell me about ppl copying the movie ping pong though.) they should be seen from some angles as a comment on society. i like japanese movies/anime w/ death. they bring a beauty to the morbidity.
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  Lee

  1 year ago

  Well, that might be the way people see things over here. But clearly they're reconsidering their belief in the media's effect on children, considering that they canceled SD's last episode, and, I believe, most of another violent anime "Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni's" second season. Higurashi aired with no problems two seasons or so ago.
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  Lee

  1 year ago

  Oh, but this didn't occur on all stations. There are still adult timeslots late at night which can air these shows. However, it might mean that anime with more mature content will be progressively moved into later time slots on many stations.
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  Najica

  1 year ago

  yeah, Higurashi kai did get cancled on a few stations and got late, some of the stations even decided to cancel the anime totally, lucky there is still 2 or 3 stations that airs it ^.^
  Although i don't know about school days (since i havn't seen it) although animes like Higurashi noramlly isn't so bloody. i mean you never get to see when tex Keiichi uses his bat to kill someone
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  Kirby

  1 year ago

  Well, I lol'd when I saw Nevada-tan
  But, I don't have this misconception about Japan. In fact, my understanding may be slightly worse then what it is actually like.
  
  I just love it when white people go to Japan and try to fit in. Even though Japan is hates the US for obvious reasons (I hope), and Korea. They're mad at Korea (Koreans also hate Japan) because they both do the same thing, and blame each other for stealing it
  
  Dance Dance Revolution VS. Pump It Up etc...
  
  In short, lol.
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  Mary F.

  1 year ago

  This is completely insane, I must say... But this kind of thing happens all over the world. :/
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  megaman

  1 year ago

  i liked the article, perhaps other topics in this area of the dark side of japan i have heard some things rumored about could be illegal dating clubs targeting underage girls, underground sex market, widely accepted gorey/bondage comics, subway gropers idk i cant think of anything else right now but also whats with those girls painted their faces brown is that really a trend???
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  zi-hong

  1 year ago

  megaman: if you mean the gyaru subcultures of ganguro, yamanba, banba, etc., yes, it is a trend. Shibuya seems to be the place to be for this subculture.
  
  This article was actually surprising to me, as I haven't heard much of the modern negatives of Japan.
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  ショーゴ

  1 year ago

  to zi-hong: haven't you ever heard of lolicon?
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  Lee

  1 year ago

  Heh, that is a discussion for another time/article.
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  Anonymous

  1 year ago

  Kinda old news but nevertheless America has it's stupidities such as that one boy who killed himself over an ipod getting stolen.
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  Howard

  1 year ago

  think about battle royale too
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  Zane

  1 year ago

  They really shouldn't be airing this stuff on kid's times anyway, it should be after watershed time to prevent any of these problems occuring ^^;
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  anon

  1 year ago

  Haveave you heard of 'higurashi no naku koro ni'? It is one of the most distrubing things I have ever encountered. 'school days' is also pretty disturbing, I've read the manga for it and watched the last episode. I really don't see how people can come up with those kinds of things. I hope it wasn't targeted for young children, because some of the ideas were pretty intense.
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  BusbyTest

  7 months ago

  OHHHH this is so violent anime.
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  savile row

  5 months ago

  this is a really cool blog. I have been looking for some good insight into manga.
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  shutters

  5 months ago

  Interesting take on this, I am going to read the other posts.
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  PDFoxy

  3 months ago

  I hope this violent anime is not watched by children
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  Orlando

  2 months ago

  becareful the media's effect on children
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