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Seriously, this show got approved by Tokyo! Thank goodness that it wasn't banned unlike Aki-Sora though...

Nice to know, didn't expect it.

You didn't even read the article, did you?

Where is the joke in there?

Now they have no excuse to keep on doing that "non blood related" cop out in anime.

I wonder if they ever review hentai... We all know "juveniles" view it...
Then again, maybe it's for the best hentai is brought under review by Japanese officials ;)

As far as incest in anime goes, I don't see the problem... If kids are stupid enough to be swayed by anime to bang their sister, those kids, in that sort of mental state, shouldn't have viewed any anime in the first place...

Also, this:

Geez.. what a job to have to watch every fucked up show that gets dreamed up by the Japanese and vote it up or down for the government.

But glad to know Yosuga no Sora was recognized as a gem, as it should be.
Let the trend toward more wincest anime continue!

My dear god, most people here don't even know what the heck they are talking about while being mislead by the title.

I kinda miss the shitstorms we had in the forums when YnS was airing.
Good times, good times...

I think everyone knows how I feel about this.

God is not smiling today, that is all I can say.

God hates gays, and he hates incestuous siblings.

Wow just wow tokyo this is crazy move ever o_O.

Your "God"'s opinion is completely irrelevant.

I kinda don't get what you mean???

He's noting that anime with romantic themes between siblings tend to reveal that they are not in fact directly blood related, but are rather siblings in a social/legal, not biological, sense. I.e., maybe the "sister" was another family's daughter, and when her parents died in a car crash she came to live with the brother's family and they were raised as siblings, never knowing the truth until later. That kind of setup has been seen a couple times before.

I guess his implication is that anime did this because biological incest was "taboo" while non-biological incest was "acceptable", and the approval of biological incest in YnS makes it okay for other writers to come up with biological incest stories.

As for me, I don't think it'll make a lot of difference, nor do I care too much whether it's biological or not. I do agree it can feel like a weak cop-out to build up the whole biological taboo and use that as your story hook, only to go "oh look they're actually not related so it's ok!" at the end. It's a little dishonest to play that game, but I can live with it and it generally doesn't make or break a show.

Examples
Scenario 1:
Person A: We aren't really family, you were adopted from another family.(For no logical reason)

Person B: Then we can do whatever the hell we what then

Scenario 2:
Person A: What did you just say!?

Person B: We are not related by blood, my parents found you walking around and just decided then and there to pick you up. In other words, out former incestuous relationship, in now invalid. We can now freely and openly love one another.

Censorship of art is not progress.

How did one read that the Government approved Incest is beyond me. They are saying the anime itself is acceptable but not the Incest because the anime did NOT approve Incest.

That's not quite the point. The point is that it was acceptable to depict at all, hence other anime could in theory do it too - they just need to play around with the writing enough to say "oh it's not necessarily good" while doing it anyway.

But even in that case, YnS is hardly the first, which is why I said I don't think this ruling means much of anything. It was done before and it'll be done again.

that mean ishihara who talk to ban anime, internet, etc approved yosuga no sora?

Wasn't the whole point of this anime saying that incest is bad? Or are you trying to say that having incest sex scene in this anime is bad no matter how they present it?