Australian newspaper thinks anime is porn.
PerthNow recently printed an article that said anime is porn. Not hentai, anime.
“Anime” is a Japanese form of animated pornography.
Those are the words used in the article. As a blogger who writes about anime I’m outraged that something so obviously false was printed by a news organization. As an anime fan I’m extremely angry that the article wasn’t corrected immediately.
The author of that article owes anime fans an apology. More importantly the author and the newspaper owe their readers an apology.
With so many sources of information answering the question “what is anime?“, the statement made in that article is inexcusable.
If you feel the same way, visit the article and demand a retraction of that statement. If you live in Australia visit their contact page, and let them know that you won’t stand for for such poor reporting.
Update: It looks like the article has been moved or removed. I tried to post a link to it on a forum and I keep getting a 404 error.
Anime, Opinion, Hentai, Australia, Porn, PerthNow, PerthNow.com, anime is porn
August 15th, 2007 at 5:40 am
Thanks for the backtrack and the info! I personally expect more from those people who are supposed to be our reliable sources of information! I will be visiting their website to express my disappointment and anger! Thanks again!
–Linda