ICv2 reports on anime censorship, with admirable frankness from the man who made the decision:
Media Blasters CEO John Sirabella explained his company’s decision to excise a ten-minute scene from the release of the hentai video, Legend of the Pervert (Chikan Monogatori) with a post on the Anime on DVD Website where he noted that “…scenes were removed and we were thinking of not releasing it at all but could not give it back as it was too late. The characters were obviously under-age and it was too much for us. I am a chicken**** when it comes to going to jail and I am not going for this title.”
April 12th, 2007 at 11:40 am
I’m amazed that calling his hentai label “Kitty” — which sounds like something else at times — hasn’t gotten him in trouble yet.
Plus, the Kitty DVDs come with age disclaimers, saying that anyone depicted is over the age of 19, which cracks me up. Those are some very old schoolgirls then.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Sure, but it always struck me as something the creators/publishers have to do, rather than something they themselves want.
So, as long as society contains a sufficient demographic turned on by schoolgirls and insists cartoon characters “having” sex must be of age, 19 year old schoolgirls it is.
April 12th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Somehow, I doubt Japan has to put similar disclaimers on their packages.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:05 am
I wonder if anyone’s explained to him that U.S. laws banning the use of under-18 actors in sexually explicit movies don’t apply to mere drawings of fictional under-18 characters. The Supreme Court struck down a law that tried, on free expression grounds. The only disclaimer anyone might need on illustrated fiction (animated or not) is “no persons under the age of 18 were involved in the production of this”, because that’s what the laws are written to protect: actual children.