Seems that the Dragonball manga is controversial. It's being dumped from a library at an elementary school after a parent took a look at it and found sexual content.

A similar incident occurred in 1999 when a Dallas parent complained about "borderline soft porn" images of "naked boys and girls" in Dragon Ball Z comics that he bought for his four-year-old son at a Toys R Us store. According to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Toys R Us removed the manga from all stores nationwide in the middle of November of 1999. The Dragon Ball manga volumes that Viz printed in North America after this earlier incident contain edited images and dialogue.

At the time, Daniel Cocanougher of the North American anime distributor Funimation noted that the anime based on the manga contains "innocent behavior that hints at sexuality. This poses no problem for Japanese audiences, whereas in the United States we seem to not want to discuss it at all."

Sorry, that sounds a hell of a lot like boiler plate. I recently downloaded some of the manga. And it contains scenes like this:

That's Goku taking Bulma's panties off while she sleeps so that he can look at what was inside them.

Bulma flashing Roshi.

Yamucha watching Bulma taking a shower

If I had a four year old kid, I wouldn't want him seeing this either. Time enough when he reaches 14.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 01:00 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
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