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  • Death Note apparently banned in some parts of China

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
 #21157  by Don
 Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:53 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I don't know if any of you follow Death Note, but this is a manga drawn by the same guy who drew Hikaru no Go. The premise is about this guy codenamed Kira who has a book (the Death Note) where you can kill anyone by writing their name (real name, can't be a handle) on it as long as you know their face. It is an epic struggle of Kira trying to elude capture against the super agent L, who was sent by the US government to apprehend this all powerful murderer/terrorist on the loose. We follow the brave adventures of Kira whose worst enemy is obviously his own stupidity, and see how he ruthlessly kills anyone who doesn't disagree with him along the way as he seeks to prove to the world that he is God (why not?) and will bring a perfect world where anyone who disagrees with him dies.

I normally don't care too much about censorship issues, though in this case, I think DN deserves to be banned for its stupidity. Given that there are actually people who thinks Kira is a good guy since he looks pretty (I guess this is same as how people who think Hikaru has these great potential by kicking Sai off the planet and always losing to everyone who mattered in Go), I'm not exactly too optimistic about the future of Asian children.</div>

 #21164  by SineSwiper
 Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:06 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Hey, Japan had their Naxis. Why not?</div>

 #21167  by ManaMan
 Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:07 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Naxis?</div>

 #21168  by Julius Seeker
 Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:40 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The company that made Sim Third Reich which was banned in parts of Japan.</div>

 #21169  by Don
 Sat Jan 22, 2005 3:19 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Speaking of Japan, I just read this article that made a very good point. If you just look at Japan by the games they make, you'd think Japan is the most wonderful and moral society that ever existed (compare to other societies and their games).</div>

 #21171  by ManaMan
 Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:11 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>What are you talking about? Japan puts out some violent-ass video games.... and some fairly perverted ones that don't make it overseas.</div>

 #21175  by Don
 Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:21 am
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Those stay in the 18+ category. There's no mainstream Japanese game that's like say, GTA or even like Doom.</div>

 #21178  by SineSwiper
 Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:02 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>But, sex is in the mainstream all too much. Same situation, different vice.</div>

 #21265  by cookie monster
 Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:04 pm
<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>you're on funny jungle mushrooms. didn't you ever see the game where you could shove a fist up the ass of your boss/coworker/police officer? that one was in arcades, like the ones everyone goes to.</div>

 #21266  by cookie monster
 Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:06 pm
<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>i disagree with the notion of "vice". i noticed that the King of All Cosmos was noticeably well endowed. That would most likely never have been put in a game designed first for the American market, but I don't see anything wrong with it at all.</div>