Shonen Jump and the Local News

Kodoshin · Post by **Kodoshin** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:31 pm

WPXI (NBC) news out of Pittsburgh had a report this afternoon about the "shocking content" that one mother found in Shonen Jump, most specifically it sounded like they were complaining about Yu Yu Hakusho.

Apparently she bought the magazine out of a Schoolastic (sp?) take home catalog, which has since officially stopped carrying the magazine.

Hopefully incidents like this don't cause Viz to fly off the handle, and make them start going censor crazy.

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:40 pm

Isn't there an age sticker rating thing on the front of Shonen Jump?

Of course, that never stopped parents from buying Vice City for their 8 year old children, and then complaining about the violent nature of the game.

Idiots.

Kodoshin · Post by **Kodoshin** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:52 pm

Yep, Jump is branded with a "T" rating on the back cover.

B-kun · Post by **B-kun** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:11 pm

For shits and giggles, what was the shocking content if you know?

Kodoshin · Post by **Kodoshin** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:17 pm

Yusuke smoking and the symbol on Kaze-Maru's forehead.

B-kun · Post by **B-kun** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:23 pm

The smoking -- Go to pretty much any public place anywhere. Aside from a church. ;;

Kaze-Maru's forehead -- I think Kyle Pope or someone explained this. It had something to do with the angle.

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:34 pm

PsyLiam wrote:Isn't there an age sticker rating thing on the front of Shonen Jump?

Of course, that never stopped parents from buying Vice City for their 8 year old children, and then complaining about the violent nature of the game.

Idiots.

That reminds me of an article I read one time concerning kids getting games like Vice City. When they asked this one stupid mother why she was buying her nine-year old son Vice City for Christmas, she answered "He wants it."

*buries face in hands and shakes her head* Well! Of course! That makes perfect sense!

I hadn't realized that kids were in charge of what a parent spends their money on! For God's sake woman! Take a parenting class!

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:35 pm

Heh heh, that's pretty interesting. I never imagined school-fucking-astic to carry something like that. Damn, and for once it's not even the parent that I find dumbest in this situation. Not that they're exactly geniuses themselves.

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:37 pm

You know, Scholastic never offered anything like that when I was a kid at school.

The most dangerous thing you could order were those "Chose Your Own Adventure" books.

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:52 pm

Oh man, I loved those. I mean, I started with some goosebump thingies, but soon it was all bam~! Ninjas!

I love ninjas. Of course, they were stupid in one way... places where you wouldn't have any choice over things.

You fall asleep.
-Wake up in half an hour.
-Wake up in 8 hours.

See my point?

...I'm the master of off-topicness.

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:54 pm

They were stupid in other ways.

Do you want to:
-go in the cave? Go to page 11
-ignore it and walk on by? Go to page 52

Page 11: You find lots of gold bars in the cave, become filthy rich, and hire hitment to assassinate Gen the Eunich.

Page 52: As you are walking down the road, a rock falls on you. You are dead.

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:55 pm

Ya well, they were always anti-climatic anyway. You perfectly described them Liam.

And what do people expect to see Yusuke doing, the Macarena?! Geez, it says at the beginning of every installment that he's a juvenile deliquent. What do juvenile delinquents do? They smoke!

I've got a good Choose Your Own Adventure-

You see that your child wants to get a game called Vice City and it's rated M for mature. The box looks pretty violent.

Do you

a. Buy it for him anyway because he'll start whining and you're too damn lazy to put your foot down, plus you're the kid's "friend", not his parent and you want him to like you. Go to page 34

b. Actually get a backbone and act like a parent and tell him if he doesn't stop whining about not getting it, you will really buy it so you can instead use it as a whip on him. Go to page 67

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:08 pm

Okay, but in the decent ones, there are multiple endings and long paths of even more choices before you die from a mistake. Well very rarely will you find such a choose your own adventure gem, but take it from me, because I've read trillions of them.

I don't like them now, though. Too much of a hassle. It's all real books for me now.

Wait, no it's not. It's all nothing for me now. What the hell am I thinking?

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:10 pm

That's cause I got ya training like a madman 24/7!

I want you to be just like Monev the Gale in Trigun, except you better not lose!

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:15 pm

I don't remember Monev, and neither does my brother. So, being like him wouldn't be a good thing. How about I be Vash, do no training, and win in the end?

Oh! Oh! How about I be Legato, be cool, have psychic powers, and both win AND lose? I love that guy.

"Wait, I said love, but don't get any wrong ideas." -Guy in Pokémon

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:19 pm

You don't remember Monev?! He was that guy that spent 10 years in a basement training until Legato sent him after Vash. He was the first Gung-Ho Gun that went after him. And that's when Vash had his first nervous breakdown and went around saying "People are dead. " with that cold look on his face.

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:22 pm

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

So, can I be Legato?

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:28 pm

Wellll, I guess so, but you have to treat me with as much respect as Legato did with Knives.

Zackarotto · Post by **Zackarotto** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:35 pm

Then it's a deal, as long as I get to hold the title of only character to ever have a conversation with Kuroneko-Sama.

I'm starting to think Legato shows respect to anyone.

Jerseymilk · Post by **Jerseymilk** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:37 pm

Well ya I guess, right before he twists all their bones out of their sockets and makes them shoot themselves. It's the least he can do.