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mmm, does this bring politicians on the same level of penises?

Does political satire even exist in Japan? Derp.

Well well... they should be glad that Gintama makes a parody out of politicians... it gives them more publicity ^^

Other than making fun of politicians, what else was the content of the episode? OP was kind of vague.

Also, sounded more like TV Tokyo just didn't want to lose business to AT-X since my understanding is they probably have different content standards.

Would be nice to get all that clarified, though. Like I said, no offence to dtshyk, but the original post was way too vague.

Things like this won't be clarified. You cannot expect detailed explanation of such a delicate issue on business. But thanks to Takamatsu's tweets, we can guess what happened backstage.

1. TV Tokyo objected to the contents of the episode and made Sunrise revise the story many times.
2. TV Tokyo finally approved the revised edition and the episode was aired at last.
3. After the airing on TV Tokyo, something happened to TV Tokyo's mind and they asked AT-X not to air the episode.
4. AT-X said the cancellation was TV Tokyo's intention.

I realize of course they wouldn't explain it. I just get annoyed when there's not enough info for me to form an adequate opinion.

I wanted to know what else was in the episode, since people seem so sure it was because of the political parodies but are not really explaining why they think it was that and not something else. I suppose I will download the episode and find out for myself.

Thanks for the reply. ^^

Edit: Also according to Wikipedia (for whatever that's worth), AT-X is a subsidy of TV Tokyo, so that explains that part.

Wow politicians gotta ruin everything. They would never ban something that here in American its almost part of our culture to make fun of people XD

then where are you watching japanese anime like a whore
if you dont like them...dont watch what they make

yeah and you think you know what japan is just by watching some of there animation...wowo weabo much
dont try to act like you know what is going on, acceptable??????
hahahaha did you ever heard of banned anime rule ????
so if american channel put a porn show that mean all american are perverted ???
do yourself a favor and stop watching anime
let me tell what a lack of logic is :
someone stupid dude getting butthurt about banning a episode of anime show that never made for its country or has anything to do with him that pretty stupid to me

TV Tokyo Producer. Mr. Wada got punishment.

He actually did it himself, as a initiated move to apologize.

Update Nov 14th
TV Tokyo replied to the inquiry of an online media that the airing of the episode was canceled because there was a description which can be associated with a specific person (presumably Renho). They refused to answer if there was a protest from the person.

Source: Tanteifile.com

It's funny that this episode gets banned, but the Funeral ep with the penis jokes doesn't.
LOL

Man all it did was make fun of her clothes and haircut. What kind of politician would get upset with that?

dafuq?! why TV tokyo bans Gintama? 'We' in the Philippines loves gintama.. we protest against it..

LOL Gintama ftw! Never give up on the dirty jokes! XD

P.S - come back soon, life without Gintama anime is like Shinpachi without his glasses!

maybe, politician of japan are just like mr. omura from the last samurai, too sensitive but not realizing they're dirty