Comments on: Ohikkoshi, the great crossover hope?; Tokyopop adjusts ratings system; misc. grunting about IE7

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MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Sunday’s best — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:45:27 +0000

[...] Simon Jones comments (NSFW) on the proposed revision of Tokyopop’s ratings system, and he makes a good point: One thing censors have proven time and time again is that context is not important to them€¦ a scholarly work using a small image with nudity as an example makes no difference to them as, say, one of our books. So I€™m all for more reasonable, honest labelling, applied consistently. If a book has violence, say it has violence. If it has T & A, say it has T & A€¦ age appropriateness may be subjective, but these things, not so much. [...]

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:42:20 +0000

Brigid–>

You know what I like? That ”Parental Advisory” label on the cover of N.H.K. ^_^; They could just tweak it a little bit…

David–>
Yeah, it hasn’t exactly been a good pr year for Harper, has it…

Sakura–>
That’s why I’m leaning towards them adding more of the “shounen/shoujo” type monikers. (Perhaps I should have made it clearer that I meant they might be expanding/extrapolating on the labels they use currently. ;; I mean, it’s still basically the same as the tag on the top right hand corner… just with a little icon attached.)

Just how IS Seven Seas planning to market that book? @_@;

By: Floating_Sakura

Floating_Sakura — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:27:44 +0000

What on earth has people been buying from Tokyopop anyways? Tokyopop HAS had the “labeling” genre system since late 2005/early 2006? Check the back of the book beside teh the age rating, there’s an (ugly) icon that tells you whether it’s horror/drama/romance/comedy/action/whatever. @@;

>>moving us ever closer to midnight on the manga doomsday clock.
Nawh, that wont’ happen. If Seven Seas has marketed Nymphet as “adult,” (which I always thought they should,) i doubt there would have been as much problems/controversy going around, but their book is aiming to be available easily to the general public.

By: DavidPWelsh

DavidPWelsh — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 09:10:48 +0000

I hope it’s the same incident. I would hate to think of the same thing happening twice. And I think the publisher was actually Tokyopop parter HarperCollins’ Collins Design, who also published Mangaka America.

By: Brigid

Brigid — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 05:11:45 +0000

Actually, the blogger was being pretty circumspect about it so I didn’t want to out her, but I’m pretty sure from the clues she dropped that her library is in the San Bernardino county system. They’re the ones that pulled the book in April. I didn’t want to say it outright, as I’m not positive, but it looks like the same incident.

As for your point about labeling, as a parent I appreciate the fact that the labeling system is there. I just wish it gave a little more information about where the rating came from.