The Modern (Weeb) Book Burning [Update]

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 03:19:00 +0000

UPDATE:

GO FUCK YOURSELF AUSTRALIA!

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone. Let’s start with a… hmm… not so happy post (sorry). If you are a real weeb/otaku/smelly person, you may have paid attention to the following news (reproduced in a few pop culture outlets, like ANN or Nichiban): a Australian politician, tired of fighting kangoroos and gigantic spiders, gathered her energy, time and infinite knowledge to fight a evil and clever enemy.

Mangas.

I can imagine your disappointment reaction, but if you didn’t know about this, now you do. In a TL;DR version, she asked (demanded? threatened?) a major Japanese book seller in Sydney to remove some titles that reproduces (big quotes) “child exploitation”. As you expected, dumb politicians are in everywhere, but Australia likes to take the leader role. The reaction of many readers and fans were as you may expect, flooding her Twitter post in which she celebrates the removal from the store the “immoral” material with criticism, irony and indignation. Days later, the bookstore responded in a Twitter thread about why they removed, saying the titles (may) come back when the classification board approves it (or bans it, they can do that).

So, let’s dive in the characters of this story and understand what really happened, and what may happen.

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The Modern (Weeb) Book Burning [Update]