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Anime/Manga Firms Plan Anime Contents Expo in March
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The Japanese media companies TAF) have already been scheduled.
The companies in the new event's executive committee include Media Factory.
The committee cited Tokyo's recently ed amendment to its Youth Healthy Development Ordinance as the reason for boycotting TAF and holding a new event. The amendment will expand the number of manga and anime that fall under "harmful publications," the legal category of works that must not be sold or rented to people under the age of 18.
The new event's executive committee noted that it s The Japan Cartoonist Association, Copyright Network for Comic Authors in the 21st Century, announced its plans to boycott TAF next year.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is part of TAF's executive committee, and Tokyo Governor pushed the recent amendment that did .
After various organizations pulled out of TAF, the organizers of the new event said that they searched for another venue where they can announce and promote new works that will debut next spring and summer. More details about Anime Contents Expo will be provided starting in January.
Makuhari Messe is the home of such events as Tokyo Game Show (TGS) and Tokyo Big Sight. Even though Makuhari Messe hosts TGS, the center is actually outside Tokyo in the prefecture immediately east of the metropolis.
[Via livedoor, Uri-Sure Matome R]
Update: More background information added.
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