Shrinkwrapping shoujo

Here’s what happens when there are too many articles like the one posted below. The Manganews Forum translates an article from the Japanese press about Osaka prefecture requiring “adult” manga to be shrink-wrapped:

In order to raise the effectiveness of the Fostering Healthy Young People Regulation, the prefecture has imposed a duty of individual shrink-wrapping to adult magazines and alike. The prefecture has also made plans to tighten its measure, such as specifying harmful books, which includes shoujo manga with excessive obscene depiction.

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Shoujo manga with obscene depictions will be submitted to the Prefecture’s Youth Healthy Training Council, where it will be determined whether the title is consider a “harmful book” and to be shrink-wrapped.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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