marg wrote:The stories, such as they are, generally involve schoolgirls being attacked or raped; the scenarios are inventive in their nastiness. Children are abducted, gagged in their beds, dragged up dark alleys. The victims are small and defenceless, with unfeasibly large breasts and round, tearful eyes. They are regularly killed or commit suicide. I kept thinking that the last pages must be missing, the ones with the comeuppance, but there’s none. And, to add a peculiarly Japanese weirdness, the drawings are delicately censored. Minute slivers of genitalia are Tipp-Exed out. Nothing is as unnervingly sordid as manga, and nothing would so distress the European parents of a daughter. And the Japanese think less than nothing of it
I remember - in my first year at university in Derby, England - a bloke I shared a house with had stacks of CDs.
One day, he took the album sleeve out of one of them, and said 'Check it out'.
I read the lyrics.
The song described a young mans continuing anger towards his father, and his sexual feelings for his mother.
Finally one day, he can't stand it any longer. He kills his father, and rapes his mother. Of course, the song itself went into a LOT more hideous detail than that.
I'd literally never read anything as sick. (Given that I hadn't left Mormonism that long, that's not surprising). I almost didn't know how to even process it.
The band - the guy later told me - were self-proclaimed atheists.
And where did he buy this filth?
...what was that? Japan you say?
...nope. Oxford Circus, London.
The obvious conclusion?
Not only are all atheists deranged (just like Stalin and Pol Pot of course), but English society as well. (They let it be sold right?)
...heck - why stop there. Let's say all Western society is deranged - just for 'fun'.
*edited out on over-reaction I should not have had*