Apparently, Japanese Government is planning to censor some of the anime listed below:
1. Kyoko
2. Kaitou Jeanne
3. Sailor Moon
4. One Piece
5. Meteor Garden
6. Fruits Basket
7. Hunter x Hunter
8. NANA
9. D.N.Angel
10. Gundam
11. Inuyasha
12. To Heart
13. Yu-Gi-Oh
14. Tokyo Mew Mew
15. Saiyuki
16. Ranma 1/2
17. Prince of Tennis
18. Detective Conan
19. Utena
20. X
21. Fushigi Yuugi
22. Black Cat
23. Tenchi Muyo
24. Rekka no Flame (?)
25. Keroro
There are more that the government in Japan is gonna censor because of the violent and/or sexual content in these anime/manga
The website that talks about this is here:
http://jipo.kir.jp/toha/rist1.htmAND... The owner of that website is collecting a list of votes of whether the people want these stories to be censored.
Apparently, 11026 People already voted YES for censorship
I'm not sure which to choose, so if anyone knows how to read Japanese, please tell the fellow anime/manga lovers how to vote yes/no:
The news got onto a Hong Kong forum on 2/1/06, so it's pretty recent. But some of you may have already known this and posted on the forum about this somewhere (I think), but the votes do matter as to whether or not we will ever be able to watch heartfelt anime/manga again
http://jipo.kir.jp/ <-The page where you vote
I really hope they don't censor some of these anime/manga because they are very heartfelt, but then I don't want to be responsible for damaging innocent souls of little kids who are tainted by violent/sexual content... So I'm in a dilemma myself.
There might be a possibility that this is just a joke, but I'm not good at distinguishing genuine value of an article