"Japan Forced to Censor Manga by Western Companies or They Lose Everything" - Not entirely true

The solution is evolve your craft & stop pushing degenerate propaganda. Or ? Stick to whatever principles you think you have & don't do business.

Look, 5:07 you're wrong, they're not forcing anything. What they did in reality is set the terms of business, that's it pal.

The way you explained it, it's simply a terms of dealing with an IP. No different from how Studios or 3rd party Software companies engage with Comic book companies. You think they get along 24/7 and NEVER have criteria?

You're not living in the real world, time to wake up from your isekai wetdream. Japan is not the only one's that have to take it or leave it.

It's the right of the company to not associate with predatory content.

_As if Japan's suffering birthrates, and declining culture with it's deficit of men & it's surplus in manchildren needed any help from said industry which helped cause the decline to begin with._

So the west isn't okay with sexploitation, cry me a river. We have our own issues on the spectrum of social decline but in this situation? Nah, Japan needs to get a grip. Bout time they did, and it's their choice to say yay or nay.

Western entities aren't forcing them to do shit, if Japan buckles then they made a choice, "forcing" is just a way to manipulate the reality.

*And look at it this way, if reeling it in holds back the content THAT much; The problem isn't the people asking you to dial it down. Maybe the content is what needs to evolve and or grow the hell up.*

And if that means the content isn't the content anymore, i repeat, what was even the point of putting such a thing in there and why was the that the best we had to offer to the world as a creator & why did that come from inside you (as the author)?

We need to ask that question more instead of just consuming product. Because I for one am not a fan of 11yrold children getting sexualized.

5:42 WRONG. Japanese culture isn't fanservice and p3do bait, it's festivals, community functions where children are given a safe place not a metaphorical casting couch where their likeness is constantly fetishized, culture of unique foods, storytelling, architecture, puppeteering, Woodcrafts, visual artforms, paper artforms, artforms beyond just Anime & Manga. THAT is Japanese culture, if you give a damn to know about it.

*You're fear mongering because your niche might have to stop dehumanizing the female characters, that's what this is really about.*

_These companies aren't setting terms for Anime to stop producing high quality stories or to STOP making awesome sakuga sequences or stop making attractive women-- no the problem is how it's portraying women and children in the first place. And that threatens the people who gravitate to anime for the wrong reasons._

Which yes, it is a problem.

Hence why 2023 after 100 years Japan finally changed the AOC because enough women & children were assaulted & harmed in this same country of Japan where children are sexualized in manga, and nobody panics.

But in this same country there's an epidemic of predation against children, this isn't a joke people. An entire multiverse of social issues exists outside your keyboard.

The world is bigger than just your bookmarks folder or your 3am Friday night action folder and your reliance on anime & manga to keep feeding into whatever crutch you're leaning on.

I repeat, if the "content" relies that heavily on sexploitation/etc. whatever or else it's threatened, the problem is the material.

Censorship is wrong yet what's happening here isn't forceful, it's an offer. Terms of service.

Japan can refuse. And someone else said it already- Japan in itself censors and mitigates it's own without the west's help but when the west does it, it's the end of days.

What planet do you live on where you think the Japanese GOVERNMENT does not GOVERN, which requires a form of discrimination or censorship against certain elements..

The hook here isn't "just don't look at it", instead it's "After 20 years of the same crap, that's the best you had to offer to the rest of the planet?"

"Why is that coming from inside your head?"

It's not as simple as making 'Duh West' the bad guy to make ourselves feel better about it as a coping mechanism because stock female character who contributes nothing to the story but pouty faces & crotch shots may not be beholden to your hormone fueled sensibilities anymore-- because it's not like we have 100 YEARS+ of content that perfectly fits your hunger for dysfunction.

It's rarely ever that simple.