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B Boy Rock

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I'd try contacting TV stations or asking on there forums for anime. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to show an already dubbed series and if it's a couple of years old it wouldn't even cost much. You just need to convince a TV station that there is genuinely a need for them to be showing anime or more anime.

11-Dec-2010 02:22:34

Jesse B77

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I doubt you would have any luck. Dedicated cartoon channels aside, you would be hard pressed scoring anything better than an extremly early morning timeslot (like 2am).
Reason being, they arent gonna take up a primetime slot for such a niche market thing, and think off all the viewership they would lose from housewives if they used a daytime slot.

11-Dec-2010 07:30:49

B Boy Rock

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^ No more American cartoons?... Right?
I don't think its too uncommon to get anime at times like 10 or 11pm though. Where I am even on free tv it hasn't been to uncommon to see a series or 2 running.
What country were you from again Jesse?

11-Dec-2010 14:10:58

Jesse B77

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Australia. The only time ive seen any anime running on TV in the past while was an episode of death note on one of the cable channels, and that aired pretty late.
Hmmm. Look's like japanese parliment is going to vote on the ammended youth ordinance (Ordinance? the hell do eplosives have to do with this) bill on wednesday.
Any opinions?

For anyone who hasnt been paying attention, heres the bill's scope in summary. Its all fairly significant for us because if its passed it will have a large effect on what materials anime and manga companies can produce. Im sure you can geuss whats under the bleeps:

1) Tokyo will have the authority to suggest how minors have access to information through their cell phone based on the user’s age, to in order to make such changes, the Governor (or his office) has to heed advise from cell phone service industry people, parental guardians of minors, those with background in education, and etc.
2) Tokyo’s definition of how it deems publicly available material as harmful to minors will be changed.
- Previously, “Any material that may be detrimental toward the healthy development of youth because of their capacity to be ******** stimulating, encourages cruelty, and/or may compel suicide or criminal behavior.” was the criteria.
- Now the criteria will be expanded to include: “Any manga, animation, or pictures (but not including real life pictures or footage) that features either ****** or pseudo ****** acts that would be illegal in real life, or ****** or pseudo ****** acts between close relatives whose marriage would be illegal*, where such depictions and / or presentations unjustifiably glorify or exaggerate the activity.”
- Any material that is excessively breaches this standard can be deemed to be “harmful material” by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government unilaterally and thereby restrict their circulation from all minors (0-17 of age).

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Jesse B77

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3) Publishers that have over 6 works deemed to be harmful material within a one year period by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government shall be subject to referral to their respective self-regulatory bodies for addressing the repeated offenses. Any further breaches within the following 6 months, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will have the authority to release the name of the company to the public, and the Governor will have the authority to issue opinions and evidence to support that opinion.
In other words, if a publisher releases something that Tokyo deems to be harmful to minors more than 6 times within a 12 month period, then the self-regulator body that the publisher belongs to will be told to do something about this offending publisher. If the publisher offends once within 6 months after that process, the Governor will have the right to humiliate the publisher in a public forum, and when that happens, you can expect retailers and distributor to avoid carrying that publisher’s line of works.
[Section four removed due to lack of relevancy, among other things]

12-Dec-2010 00:10:50 - Last edited on 12-Dec-2010 00:35:39 by Jesse B77

Jesse B77

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5) Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s role in promoting and formulating Internet media literacy policies are confirmed.
6) To prevent harm that could arise from minor’s access to the Internet, filtering must be made more easily available and they must become more effective.
This is part of a response to the increasing phenomenon of cyber-bullying among other issues.

7) If a parental guardian wishes to deactivate a minor’s cell phone’s Internet filtering, they must submit a written request to their cell phone service provider where they recognize that it will be the parental guardian’s responsibility to make sure the minor’s Internet access is properly supervised AND that the reason for deactivation is recognized as being justifiable by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
Currently, when minors (0-17) in Tokyo sign up for a cell phone service that included Internet access, the Internet filtering is activated by default, but parents can ask for the filtering to be turned off. This clause would make it much more difficult for parents to deactivate Internet filtering on their children’s cell phone.

12-Dec-2010 00:11:50 - Last edited on 12-Dec-2010 00:36:09 by Jesse B77

Jesse B77

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8) Parental guardians must properly supervise and administer Internet usage by minors in their care to prevent dangerous usage patterns that might involve criminal activities, etc. and strive toward limiting minor’* exposure to information that may result in criminal activities or become victims to the minimum possible.

Agree with the majority of the bills points. However, i feel that many of its sanctions against authors and the works they may create are unncessasary, and to singnificant*y constrain what the author may write.
Specifically, my issues are with the ammended definition in section two, which unnecisarrily restrains the storytelling process. I see no need to legislate against the depictions of such thengs when its being used to tell a story, and not as a hard sell for such acts (why would anyone bother).
As an example ,lets assume that this bill legislated not only on crimes of a ****** nature, but all depicted crimes. One peice would fast become illegal for positivly promoting piracy, DBZ and naruto would become illegal for promoting assualt, pretty much half the manga ever created could, to some degree, be considered illegal.
My second issue involves the cruel and unusual punishment that may be exacted on authors who create works that the government deems unsuitable based on this definition. I think it would make more sense for tokyo to establish a review board taht would check potentually infringing works before they where completed and released to the open market.
My final issue is the fact that the bill taregs* manga and anime specifically. I find it ironic and strange that non-photographic depictions should be censored by the government undert he justification of being harmful, while photopgrahic depictions with real actors are not legislated against, even though they would likley have a greater effect on the mind, becauset hey are acknowleged to be set in "reality" as opposed to "fiction".

12-Dec-2010 00:12:12 - Last edited on 12-Dec-2010 00:31:07 by Jesse B77

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