Ishihara: “Otaku Have Corrupt DNA”
Tokyo’s governor Shintaro Ishihara has accused manga fans of being “abnormal” and having “corrupt DNA,” whilst condemning sexually explicit manga as “causing harm without a single benefit.”
His comments were made at a recent press conference, in which he sought to justify his support of the ban by rambling about genetic defectives:
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“There are indeed plenty of perverts in the world. The DNA of these pitiful people is corrupt. They are indeed abnormal.”
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The perverts in question are apparently anyone who opposes his ban.
This of course comes not long after he called homosexuals “genetically defective” and “pitiful.”
Another remark saw him criticise loli manga:
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“Stories with young children being raped serve no purpose. They cause nothing but harm with no benefit.”
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However, in the same press conference he went on to praise Vladimir Nabokov’s classic lolicon novel “Lolita” – “It was shocking at the time, but at that level the description is quite beautiful.”
When it was pointed out to him that when he was criticised during the 1972 publication of his own novel “Shinjitsu no Seikyouiku” (“True Sex Education”) he defended himself by saying “Literature of any kind does not lead children to commit crime or cause juvenile delinquency,” he merely responded that “I was wrong.”
In other recent remarks he again restated his indifference to the industry boycott of the Tokyo Anime Fair, saying “Who cares if they don’t come – they’ll come next year!” and even expressing his belief that the attendance of the anime industry is not necessary to an anime fair at all – “It doesn’t matter if they never attend it!”
All this from the man who has been writing rape novels for the past 50 years.
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