eBay has announced a new “Adult items policy” that will go into effect on July 15. Multiple items that have been legal to sell and purchase on eBay will be banned, and eBay specifically calls out “sexually explicit anime, comics, books, animation, manga, hentai, yaoi” …Read more »
Remember earlier this year we when reported on an Australian senator calling for a review of all anime and manga sold in the country, which he described as containing “child abuse material”? Well, looks like that actually happened—and as a result, three novels in the …Read more »
What do The Da Vinci Code , satellite TV and Pokemon Go have in common? If you answered “a waste of time,” you might not technically be wrong , but the answer I was looking for is: they’re all banned in Iran. The Iranian government …Read more »
38 Japanese anime and manga titles have been blacklisted from distribution in China, including popular series such as Attack on Titan , Death Note , Highschool of the Dead , and more. The Chinese Ministry of Culture announced the list on Monday, with Senior Ministry …Read more »
Here’s one of the weirder petitions we’ve seen in a while (and we saw one recently to turn “Macho Man” Randy Savage’s birthday into national holiday): a man in Berlin is petitioning the United Nations to enact an international ban on anime and manga. The …Read more »
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