DragonBall Manga Pulled From Maryland Library

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:09 pm

penguintruth wrote:I like how none of these folks can even do a quick Google search on Dragon Ball and see that it's not "smut".

Search Google images "dragonball". Second result is a porn site.

Son Wukong · Post by **Son Wukong** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:29 pm

The skills needed as an English Major to write this piece of text must have been over 9000!

I am disgusted.

Bussani · Post by **Bussani** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:35 pm

Rocketman wrote:
penguintruth wrote:I like how none of these folks can even do a quick Google search on Dragon Ball and see that it's not "smut".
Search Google images "dragonball". Second result is a porn site.

Fair point, but it's not like finding porn on Google Images is hard. I'm sure these people are too quick to jump to conclusions and include it as 'evidence' for that though. Heck, they'd probably think the porn site images are by Akira Toriyama himself.

penguintruth · Post by **penguintruth** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:18 pm

Rocketman wrote:
penguintruth wrote:I like how none of these folks can even do a quick Google search on Dragon Ball and see that it's not "smut".
Search Google images "dragonball". Second result is a porn site.

Funny, but I didn't mean the images. If you looked Dragon Ball up on Wikipedia, even went to the official website by Funimation, you'd see it wasn't pornography. A little research would easily reveal that.

caejones · Post by **caejones** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:22 pm

penguintruth wrote:
Rocketman wrote:
penguintruth wrote:I like how none of these folks can even do a quick Google search on Dragon Ball and see that it's not "smut".
Search Google images "dragonball". Second result is a porn site.
Funny, but I didn't mean the images. If you looked Dragon Ball up on Wikipedia, even went to the official website by Funimation, you'd see it wasn't pornography. A little research would easily reveal that.

We're dealing with a collision of emotion, politics, and Dragonball. Of the three, Dragonball is the one to which rationality applies best.

SparkyPantsMcGee · Post by **SparkyPantsMcGee** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:16 pm

Rocketman wrote:
penguintruth wrote:I like how none of these folks can even do a quick Google search on Dragon Ball and see that it's not "smut".
Search Google images "dragonball". Second result is a porn site.

Turn safe search on.

And yea, politics or not, doing a little research helps.

laserkid · Post by **laserkid** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:28 pm

Good freaking God, this is annoying as hell. People, God gave you a cranium, USE IT!

I understand you're upset over your child seeing a poorly drawn penis, and as much fun as it would be to make fun of you for that, I won't. I get it, you guys don't want your kid to read Dragon Ball because you didn't like what you saw. GOOD! Being a parent is important, now be a parent to YOUR kid and actually be involved in what they see and do. Don't try to be everyone else's parent. Also, if you're going to label something as pornography, the least you could do is research the subject before coming to that conclusion.

God, I may come from a right wing perspective, politically, but when the right wing extremes do this it annoys me to no end.

Shiyonasan · Post by **Shiyonasan** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:36 pm

The article wrote:I had to ask the same question about a dozen times before I could get a straight answer – the WCBOE has NO POLICY requiring librarians to actually read the books purchased prior to placing them on the shelves for children.

This I found most interesting in this article. I guess the librarian figured since it looked kid-friendly on the cover that it must be suitable for children.

Bussani · Post by **Bussani** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:25 am

Shiyonasan wrote:
The article wrote:I had to ask the same question about a dozen times before I could get a straight answer – the WCBOE has NO POLICY requiring librarians to actually read the books purchased prior to placing them on the shelves for children.
This I found most interesting in this article. I guess the librarian figured since it looked kid-friendly on the cover that it must be suitable for children.

Now what's that old saying about books and covers..?

You'd think a librarian would know that.

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:54 am

There is always this PG thing and all, in Czech republic there is no PG rating and everything, only on things imported from USA like games....

And know what, there never was trouble simmilar to what occurs in some countries like USA, Germany or Hungary with kids and parents and censhorship....

Only problem here was with that Christians were fucked up by Pokémon series because of cute animals they are battling each other and that kids went fanatic because of that show

That's funny from people, whose goal is salvation after dead.....

If I'd say it in funny way, they were only pissed of because instead of going to churches, kids were rather watching japanese TV shows at Sunday mornings and CZ is 6th country in the world with 61% of population being atheist and we were pretty pissed off because of pope's visit, because it was paid from our assesments which are really big and they closed the biggest highway between two biggest cities on two days....

You know, 73% of US population are religionists and the reason of those trouble with books is religion..... You can't imagine how even harmless (only nowadays) christianty can make bunch of idiots from ordinary people.... I know it well, my mother is christian and he wants her children to be christians....

laserkid · Post by **laserkid** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:43 am

Can we please not turn this into "the christians are evil"?

SHINOBI-03 · Post by **SHINOBI-03** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:54 am

Let's just hope Viz won't do any changes in further releases or reprints after this...

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:01 pm

laserkid wrote:Can we please not turn this into "the Christians are evil"?

Seconded. Keep it on-topic, please.

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:53 pm

Christians were evil for all the middle age, what's up, they claim they are not nowadays and I'm not sayin' they are evil guys!!! Only thing that is true and everyone should know is tht biggest threat of this civilization are dumb people and religions and what is the worst, someone dumb crossed with religion.....

I can say how pretty and well I was discussing with Jehova's Witnesses' members about these things.

Man, every war in Europe was because of religion.... If we don't count both WW's and I bet that these ''Dragon Ball banned'' cases are because of religion. You know, soul purists , who are lovely and nice, never commited a sin and this bullshit are against drawn penises, Pokémon and harmless stuff for kids, but you can't imagine what they are doing behind your back....

I'm not saying it's everyone religious case, but people are not perfect and who says that he is, lying!
If somebody is calling that he's good christian, muslim or whatever, he have his flaws.... And that's what I don't like.

I really hate when someone claims he's christian, shouting that in this comic book or magazine for kids is pornography, pushing it to the court and then he's masturbating on toilet with porn in other hand.......
That's the real world and mastrubation is forbidden by sixth god order you know.

Hey guys, if you are christians, then admit it and don't be ashamed of it. You really don't have, because if you are behaving in the way that christian should, then it's okay and you should be proud of yourself.
But if someone is behaving bad and then he points his finger and saying: this is bad, this is really bad! Then he's not good christian or is he?
As Jesus said: Who's completely without sin, throw a rock at me....

I'm disgusted by this kind of people.....
I know it's hard to breaktrough my english but I never said that christianity is evil, people are evil and if you are mature, you should know it well....

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:12 pm

Again, this is not the topic, nor even necessarily the forum, for that kind of thing. Let's let it go, okay?

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:40 pm

Okay, if someone didn't get what I meant and feels insulted, you should use the personal message, because I didn't meant to insult anyone......

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:27 pm

MCDaveG wrote:Man, every war in Europe was because of religion.... If we don't count both WW's

Except the Franco-Prussian war. And the Austro-Prussian War. And the Prusso-Danish War. And the Crimean War. And the Belgian War for Independence. And the Napoleonic Wars. And the War of Austrian Succession. And the War of the Quadruple Alliance. And the War of Spanish Succession. And the Great Northern War. And the Nine Years' War. And the Franco-Dutch War. And the War of Devolution. And the Anglo-Dutch War. And the English Civil War. And the Portuguese Restoration War. And Ireland's Nine Years' War. And the Anglo-Spanish War. And on, and on, and on.

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:02 am

Rocketman wrote:
MCDaveG wrote:Man, every war in Europe was because of religion.... If we don't count both WW's
Except the Franco-Prussian war. And the Austro-Prussian War. And the Prusso-Danish War. And the Crimean War. And the Belgian War for Independence. And the Napoleonic Wars. And the War of Austrian Succession. And the War of the Quadruple Alliance. And the War of Spanish Succession. And the Great Northern War. And the Nine Years' War. And the Franco-Dutch War. And the War of Devolution. And the Anglo-Dutch War. And the English Civil War. And the Portuguese Restoration War. And Ireland's Nine Years' War. And the Anglo-Spanish War. And on, and on, and on.

Yes, but I meant that other wars....

Lance Freeman · Post by **Lance Freeman** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:59 am

And while people are complaining about this, a local department store decided that the best place to set up a display of Death Note manga was in their toy department.

The Tori-bot · Post by **The Tori-bot** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:33 am

Lance Freeman wrote:And while people are complaining about this, a local department store decided that the best place to set up a display of Death Note manga was in their toy department.

The only piece of Death Note that truly belongs in the toy department is the novel.

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