Manga and anime should be banned just on principle, regardless of any connection to porn. I could expound on just how truly awful those cartoon forms are, but then I remember that this is the culture that recently produced ghastly robot “babies” to try to entice people to have more children.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/06/23/japan.baby.robot.population/
“but then I remember that this is the culture that recently produced ghastly robot “babies” to try to entice people to have more children.”
Truly a culture in a death spiral, similar to that in the United States (we just use different “bread & circuses”). After resisting for decades, Japan is now forced to let in foreigners because their population is aging & dying...
Manga is simply a form for presenting stories. It can present any type of story someone might write. From Romantic tragedies to sports stories, or historical narratives to supernatural horror stories. It is all there.
The porn is there too, just as it is with novels or magazines. And, with the decadence of American society, there is likely porn consumption in all media. That does not make any of the media inherently bad. It is the prurient material which is the problem.
I don't know about that. Ghost in the Shell is excellent. So is Cowboy Bebop for that matter. Cowboy Bebop has one of the best soundtracks of any cartoon I can think of. The Seatbelts rock.
Yeah, some of it sucks. (my daughters liked Inayasha) Like most artistic forms though, some is good, some is bad, some is excellent.
What principle is that?