The MTV News article below has a sentence that should send chills up every parent’s spine:
We’re hoping that the readers here will begin to see manga as a medium where it’s very similar to soap operas or whatever they see on TV, except it’s in print,” said Yumi Hoashi, whose parents forbade her to read manga but who is now the editor in chief of Viz’s mighty Shonen Jump manga anthology,
(Emphasis is mine.) Yeah, that worked well. After reading that quote, I immediately banned Shakespeare, broccoli, and all forms of advanced mathematics from my household. I’ll let you know how that works out.