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Manga That Was Cancelled Due to Tokyo Ordinance Is Posted Online
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Manga artist Comic Zenon's website days before it was set to premiere — is now available online on the Mangaonweb website.
Yamamoto had revealed in May that the manga was set to premiere on "Zenyon," the website for Tokuma Shoten's Comic Zenon magazine, on June 29. However, Yamamoto then posted on July 1 that the editorial department decided to cancel the publication two days before it was set to debut.
Yamamoto was told the reason for the cancellation was because Coamix and Tokuma Shoten decided that there was a possibility that the manga would be designated as a "harmful publication." According to what the companies told Yamamoto, there was no reason for releasing the manga if the companies could not eventually publish a print version.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly revised ordinance expanded 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. Erotic material was already restricted before the amendment, but the amended law also restricts the sales and renting of materials that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government considers "to be excessively disrupting of social order."
Manga creator first to be formally restricted as such by the government under the ordinance.
Aiko no Maa-chan is Yamamoto's first published manga. On the description for the manga on Mangaonweb's website, Yamamoto notes that only the first chapter will be published there. The description also notes that if any publishers are interested in publishing the manga, they can Yamamoto directly.
launched the Mangonweb website in March 2010.
