DBWI:Anime to be banned

maverick

Banned
Its about time is what I say, some would consider me liberal and I would say that Another reason to support the government in this decision is that This "Anime" is killing american culture, when was the last time you watched an american cartoon, or read a book by an american author, really, minorities and such have a right to exist, but we need a culture of our own.

So, to preserve american culture, we must deprive the american people from options and most importantly, other people's cultures?

That's like saying the best solution to keep your wife from sleeping with other men is to lock her in the basement:rolleyes:
 
I heard that someone who owns a farm right on the US(-Canadian) border is building a giant blank wall with the intention of projecting anime for viewers across the border on the US side. I guess there's no freaking way for US authorities to shut that operation down, considering how our courts strike down any law that a government may pass that includes any hint of censorship.

Vive le Canada!:cool:

It's not just that - since Cuba is about 90 miles from Florida, many of the privately-owned TV networks (even the public broadcaster) are beefing up their transmitters so that their signal can be reached in Miami so that people there can watch animé (granted, it's the Spanish-dubbed version, but close enough, right?) - which, of course, also means a new market for Puerto Rican programming (since some of the Cuban TV networks actually show a great deal of Puerto Rican-produced TV programming - i.e. CMQ, which airs a lot of programming from Televicentro [1]), which of course is good news.

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OOC Note:

[1] Since I'm assuming a non-communist Cuba, let's say that this has a basis in OTL - what is now the state-run TV channel Cubavisión used to be a privately-owned TV network called CMQ, who once had as an affiliate WAPA-TV Channel 4 San Juan, which during the late 1990s and the early part of the 2000s was called "Televicentro".
 
Another reason to support the government in this decision is that This "Anime" is killing american culture, when was the last time you watched an american cartoon, or read a book by an american author,

Plenty of times. I've read American literature multiple times - in fact, I'm currently reading a recent book published by a highly-acclaimed American author (though due to the censorship policies of the US, she's been forced to publish it here in Puerto Rico). And sometimes the Puerto Rican television stations - primarily the English-language stations - air American cartoons, though due to the content they are mainly approved for young and mature adults only, and occasionally for older children. Then again, there have been many Americans here that have worked on Puerto Rican cartoons (and which a lot of their work is going to be imported to the US) due to a variety of factors, and I have to say - they are top-notch.
 
So, to preserve american culture, we must deprive the american people from options and most importantly, other people's cultures?

See, that's a contradiction I don't understand. The English-language television stations here air a mix of locally-produced programming, Canadian programming, British programming, and American programming (as well as other international series dubbed into English). The Spanish-language television stations (which, not surprisingly, are the majority) air programming from all over Latin America, as well as international series dubbed into Spanish and locally-produced programming. Even the Puerto Rican Broadcasting Corporation, our public broadcaster, has a policy of subtitling Spanish-language programming into English and English-language programming into Spanish, among other options (like choosing between an English audio track or a Spanish audio track) so as to create its two television channels as fully bilingual channels, due to constraints on the television bandplan here. And you know what? I'm perfectly content with it. It's not destroying Puerto Rican culture in any way - it's enhancing it.
 
OOC: I don't know why it would be a dictatotorial system imposing this ban. I think it would be more like the combination of social mores and industry censorship that India has with its Bollywood film (no kissing on screen, etc.)

So this is probably a TL where the Hays Code continues, and is exploited by a conservative GOP majority, possibly in partnership with Tipper Gore and Adrea Dworkin non-Rightwingers.

So, is this a successful backlash against the sixties, as someone upthread has suggested? Or maybe something like a Central Powers victory in WWI has led to Europe and Japan eventually being more likely to have a 'permissive society' than the US?
 
Hmm, that's sounds exactly like something one of my co-workers talked about a couple of weeks ago. Was his name, by any chance, David? If it is, he's now also a camera-man at my workplace, which is a film company.

Oh, no! I suspect he's been sending stuff to his brother! Now I'll have to disown him! (OOC: I think I can - in character - jump up and down like Yosemite Sam as I think he was drawn mostly in the USA. :D )
 
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OOC: I don't know why it would be a dictatotorial system imposing this ban. I think it would be more like the combination of social mores and industry censorship that India has with its Bollywood film (no kissing on screen, etc.)

So this is probably a TL where the Hays Code continues, and is exploited by a conservative GOP majority, possibly in partnership with Tipper Gore and Adrea Dworkin non-Rightwingers.

That's my assumption, at least - as well as Puerto Rico being independent from the US, with my assumption of it being earlier rather than later.

IC:

Oh, no! I suspect he's been sending stuff to his brother! Now I'll have to disown him!

No need - he's got a lovely wife and kids as well. Plus, his work is top-notch - IIRC his unit earned our company a couple of PRAFTAs [1] for one of the films he did this year, which is good.

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[1] Puerto Rican Academy of Film and Television Awards

(OOC: I think I can - in character - jump up and down like Yosemite Sam as I think he was drawn mostly in the USA. :D )

If you want. :D My IC character is just keeping his cool.
 
BREAKING NEWS...BREAKING NEWS...BREAKING NEWS...

FRANCE BANS ANIME AND MANGAS ALSO !

Paris
The French President gave a Live TV-Speech during primetime

He express his worry about this "Brutal and Bloody Entertainment"
how threatened the French moral values and Franco-Belgian comics art.
and bans ALL Anime and Mangas in France, so that Tin Tin and Asterix stay a protected culture values

He also condemned French commercial television station "TF1"
how show uncensored anime series in Children's TV Program
like "Fist of North Star" or "SAINT SEIYA" and the Complett work of Go Nagai :eek:
OTL TF1 really show them uncensored in Children's TV Program during 1980's !

The next day reactions on President order are divided
"TF1" CEO protested vehemently against the ban, also Japaniese Ambassador react negative on ban
while critics explane that Franco-Belgian comics is also "Brutal and Bloody"
pointing at French Comic Magazine "Metal Hurland" In U.S. Know as "Heavy Metal"
Metal Hurland founder Comic artis like Moebius condemned the ban as new form of Censorship
Jean-Marie LePen welcomed this as "Defense French values against a barbaric culture"
the French-Belgium Comic Industry was not happy
they lose milions with lost of mangas like DRAGONBALL or AKIRA

French premium pay television channel "Canal +"
demanned a permission to show anime after midnight (they broadcasting in encrypted)
 
BREAKING NEWS...BREAKING NEWS...BREAKING NEWS...

FRANCE BANS ANIME AND MANGAS ALSO !

Paris
The French President gave a Live TV-Speech during primetime

He express his worry about this "Brutal and Bloody Entertainment"
how threatened the French moral values and Franco-Belgian comics art.
and bans ALL Anime and Mangas in France, so that Tin Tin and Asterix stay a protected culture values

He also condemned French commercial television station "TF1"
how show uncensored anime series in Children's TV Program
like "Fist of North Star" or "SAINT SEIYA" and the Complett work of Go Nagai :eek:
OTL TF1 really show them uncensored in Children's TV Program during 1980's !

The next day reactions on President order are divided
"TF1" CEO protested vehemently against the ban, also Japaniese Ambassador react negative on ban
while critics explane that Franco-Belgian comics is also "Brutal and Bloody"
pointing at French Comic Magazine "Metal Hurland" In U.S. Know as "Heavy Metal"
Metal Hurland founder Comic artis like Moebius condemned the ban as new form of Censorship
Jean-Marie LePen welcomed this as "Defense French values against a barbaric culture"
the French-Belgium Comic Industry was not happy
they lose milions with lost of mangas like DRAGONBALL or AKIRA

French premium pay television channel "Canal +"
demanned a permission to show anime after midnight (they broadcasting in encrypted)

Wow that help the situation(i think maybe Germany(always opposed to France) will promoted the Anime in Public Channels to preserve their aggrements and relations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German–Japanese_relations)

now the Americans who want to emigrate to europe will not going to France(and again the posibilitiy of improve the Frech genes are lose, like in WW1)
 
Some sort of international trade agreement would pop up to stop it happening. Or just common sense. Puposfully banning Japanese culture? That would not sit well. Especially over such trivial matters.
 
Some sort of international trade agreement would pop up to stop it happening. Or just common sense. Puposfully banning Japanese culture? That would not sit well. Especially over such trivial matters.

OOC:We're dealing with religious fundies. Fundies and common sense do not mix. :p;)
 
So how does this affect Michael Bay's Transformers movies? Considering they were based off a cartoon that was animated by Toei.
 
So how does this affect Michael Bay's Transformers movies? Considering they were based off a cartoon that was animated by Toei.

OOC:Given the nature of this alternate US, Michael Bays' entire career may have been butterflied away, let alone the likes of Hasbro or the necessary rights to produce the show.
 
Some sort of international trade agreement would pop up to stop it happening. Or just common sense. Puposfully banning Japanese culture? That would not sit well. Especially over such trivial matters.

I agree - already I'm hearing that Congress is having to back-track on the anti-animé law after serious pressure was applied by the Japanese ambassador, various TV networks, and consumers' groups.

On the other hand, apparently Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona's Malagueña is now turning into the anthem of those who want an end to fundie rule and the censorship laws. Here's a beautiful improvisation of that piece on a cuatro (Puerto Rican guitar) that was on the PRBC's primary "Puerto Rico TV" channel a couple of years ago. (The copy I have linked to is from "TuTV", the PRBC's international satellite channel.)
 
I agree - already I'm hearing that Congress is having to back-track on the anti-animé law after serious pressure was applied by the Japanese ambassador, various TV networks, and consumers' groups.

OOC:That was an OOC statement. Besides, this is a fundie-DOMINATED America. The government wouldn't do it unless they had substantial public support. Which, considering we've established that the US is filled with Bible bashers, is logical. :rolleyes:
 
OOC:That was an OOC statement. Besides, this is a fundie-DOMINATED America. The government wouldn't do it unless they had substantial public support. Which, considering we've established that the US is filled with Bible bashers, is logical. :rolleyes:

OOC: How about we just treat it as a rumour? That could work.

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IC: How's this for interesting? The drama that's taking place in the States right now is pretty much turning into fodder for a novela. I'm reading my copy of La Tercera, and apparently one of the big film companies in Puerto Rico (i.e. mine) has just landed a contract with the Cuban/Puerto Rican TV network MEGA to create a novela based on this brouhaha (in Spanish, obviously). How's that for interesting?
 
OOC: How about we just treat it as a rumour? That could work.

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IC: How's this for interesting? The drama that's taking place in the States right now is pretty much turning into fodder for a novela. I'm reading my copy of La Tercera, and apparently one of the big film companies in Puerto Rico (i.e. mine) has just landed a contract with the Cuban/Puerto Rican TV network MEGA to create a novela based on this brouhaha (in Spanish, obviously). How's that for interesting?

Meh; anyone who's making too much noise about it is being put down for 'questioning the will of God' or something. We must remember that the majority of the American populance will do pretty much anything their government says if it conforms to their fundie values. But then again, there is a lot of noise being made in Japan...
 
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