Sexual/violent manga in Japan can be easily accessible to children but many are worried over this matter. To fix this, the government will be planning to pass a bill to bar manga artists from publishing particular scenes. The author of Moe Kae!! and Suki Desu Suzuki-kun, Go Ikeyamada, expressed her opinions through a blog entry.

This is very worrisome.

For me, during the top of the age of manga, my relatives had a person connected to the publishing industry. Since kindergarten, I grew up reading manga. From shoujo manga, shounen manga, fantasy, historial, deeply moving epics, even somewhat H manga, there were various (LOL), I remembered various words and information from manga. Manga was like a textbook. The good things I do, the bad things I do, the truth is there were things I couldn’t do, however, only if in the world of manga, there were things that were granted. I learned various things from manga. Thus, I came to like the free world of manga.

Well, I hear “It’s the violent manga’s fault that sex crimes have increased” and misgiving comments; this is what I’ve heard from other people, but… in Japan, it seems that the increasing of manga that are like that and the frequency of sex crimes are completely unproportional. (The biggest sex crime was like, postwar, Showa era year 30, 1955).

Instead, the restrictions which relate gender and pornography are severe for the country, and it seems that there are statistics that also say that sex crimes are numerous. With a difficult problem, I too really don’t know what is right. I probably don’t know if my opinion is right. However, as the number one reader who loves manga, as one writer, I wish from my heart to allow manga to have its own freedom.

You can read the full blog entry here.

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