Ken Akamatsu will most likely become the first manga artist to be elected to the upper house of the Japanese Diet.
He has talked about the dangers of regulation and censorship of manga and anime that has increased in the past few years, both in Japan and from overseas.
twitter.com
>Shortly after 20:00, the press announced that the winner had been confirmed in the ordinary election for the House of Councillors. This confirmation means the birth of the first manga artist to become a Member of Parliament. Japan will change! I think. I will work hard to fulfil my promises so that I don't betray the voters who voted for me and so that I don't disgrace myself as a 'representative of all the people'.
>freedom of expression in manga and anime
>importance of anime and manga as japan's cultural export
>throughout his career as an artist and activist helped the doujin sub culture a lot, even helping with the website that showed digital manga and doujinshi that were out of print, helping the authors
>warned about the dangers censorship influence coming from overseas
Manga artist Japanese minister
More about the site J-Comi:
>J-Comi (Jコミ, J Komi) is a Japanese website that distributes out of print manga and doujinshi as DRM-free ebooks, with the permission of the authors and supported by advertising. J-Comi is limited to out of print titles so that quality of the work is assured and so that J-Comi does not compete with publishers. The site was the idea of famed manga artist Ken Akamatsu, officially established on January 25, 2008. But it was not launched until April 12, 2011, after it gained momentum in response to Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths' 2011 passing of Bill 156, which many manga creators opposed.[1] It is now known as Manga Z (マンガ図書館Z, Manga Toshokan Z).[2]
>J-Comi created an amnesty program for unauthorised scans of out of print manga, the "Illegal Out-of-Print Manga File Purification Project,"[8] whereby users of J-Comi would upload them anonymously to J-Comi, J-Comi would seek permission from the author to publish them, add advertising to the manga and publish them, giving the author the revenues.[9]
>In October 2011, J-Comi added a pay service for erotic manga,[12] including a title which was banned under the revised Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance Regarding the Healthy Development of Youths.[13]
If he actually does something about the censorship, will you forgive him for UQ Holder?
do something about Any Forums censorship first so we can talk about anime industry stuff here
Don't get pissy because your Twitter thread got deleted.
just wait 50 more seconds until this one get deleted too, faggot.
There was a different one with Akamatsu art that got nuked.
Will he push to legalize polygamy? I hope so.
This is good news...?
Wait a minute
What is this deja vu?
Itsudatte my Santa was awesome.
I hope now Negima can get a good anime reboot.
Who care. He deserves get censored and shot on the spot.
more people should be posting his artwork and manga panels as examples
So that's what this website is about
I often end up here when searching for obscure ecchi mangas, I thought it was a pirate site.
mandatory japanese learning for manga fans to finally destroy the chains of American english localization bullshit?
>I thought it was a pirate site.
People complain about his anti-piracy but at least there is proof that he is able to come up for viable alternatives for piracy
If he can remove those censor bars from porn, he will be Japan's finest politician.
You will now suffer government mandated tsunderes in every romance story
How many millions of Japanese women must suffer a life alone because the law does not recognize their right to share the man they love? Please Akamatsu-san, as and admirer of your harem works and your pro-polygamy message in UQ Holder!, push to end the western tyranny that suppresses the great Japanese tradition of polygamy within history and the arts.
Yep, I always automatically look for manga stuff in English but with stuff like this J-Comi site (it's called mangaz in google search though) it looks like I'm gonna practice my Japanese a lot
This diet better than Atkins or Mediterranean then?
>every work must have a tsundere
>harems should have at least 10 females running for the MC
Firsts acts proposed by him
It's basically the Japanese Parliament/Congress in anything but name. I don't know why they call it "Diet", it's "Kokkai" 国会 (Government Assembly) in Japanese.
Japan politics is healing
Here's a few words by people who hate him and Yamada
almost like these loony troons are the problem
ninibros...
I don't know who Yamada is but Akamatsu haters are the real chuds. Lolis and teenage girls must be sexualized in anime and manga. For free but it's okay if the artists profit from it.
>chud
Redditor rent free + twatter faggoty?
>"western morality and politics are being used to oppress poor Japanese artists and their freedom of expression"
correct
>the right to keep drawing loli sand sexualizing teenage girls
correct
>the right to keep drawing loli sand sexualizing teenage girls
Okay. And?
Who cares about gaijin women opinions, keep seething and count your remaining eggs karen.
Let's say he finally becomes "that guy" who puts forward a bill to end mosaic censorship, how likely it would pass the upper house?
Do Japanese politicians care about public support behind bills?
Hey, don't forget my shotas and young teenage boys as well.
why do americans ruin and destroy everything
identification and consolidation of information with the actual human being. Tracking down every single online communist like this one is the goal.
Is it really bad?
Good.
He will try to protect the industry and stop making shitty manga. It's a win-win situation.
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