>> “extensive therapy” really??????
My guess is, Barbaree is somewhat of a drama queen.
Beware of groups called “ Protect Our Children”.
Also, how old is her son?
It doesn’t mention the title but I suspect the kid already had mental health issues and mom is just looking for a scapegoat.
I wonder what the title was? Sounds like something a bit more powerful than Catcher in the Rye.
Yeah, dunno about therapy, but some of the Graphic Adult Novels, are not “mere” comic books. From what I understand, it is not unusual for adults to read Manga in Japan, and some of the themes are disturbing and not intended for children.
Someone goofed in purchasing and classification.
“Now he’s in a home for extensive therapy,” she said.
Just spends all day, every day, flouncing about that little padded room in his homemade Sailor Moon costume. Tragic, really.
The word should be “Hentai” for the pornographic stuff.
I am pretty jaded, and lived some rough stuff as a child but these things shocked the h3ll out of me when I was stationed in Japan (It isn’t even separated from other stuff in bookstores there). I can see it having that effect on some people
I'm trying to figure out if the son or Mom lost their mind. One of them is very delicate. They never give the son's age. Mind you, I am against pornography but he looked at it ONCE, STOLE it and went nuts? Ummmmmmm.
What kind of library has pronographic comic books?
My local library has a graphic novels section sandwiched between the children’s section and the teenagers section. The librarian got quite huffy when I suggested that the volume graphically depicting a man being raped to death ought to be placed with the adult books and not six inches from the Pokemon comics.
I haven’t taken my kids back since.
They can be extra ordinarily sexually graphic or violent, and usually both, because manga isn’t regulated like other forms of entertainment are in Japan, thus there are virtually no limits on what is printed.
Anyway, I’ll bet that comic cured the kid of any desire to be a weeaboo. He should stick with Spiderman.
If your son “lost his mind” over this then you are a very poor parent. You have not prepared him to distinguish between acceptable and not acceptable and how on earth does he get through a day with out “vapors” and “severe mental illness” just from every day life? What a whack job of a mother! Ban this mother from having any more children!
I don’t believe censorship has any place in the library. If someone doesn’t want to see a book then they don’t have to take it out. They can leave it on the shelf for the next person.
This cupcake was probably already hopped up on Ritilin and probably classified as some sort of autism.
How old is this kid?
and how do you feel about that?
It doesnt say why the kid is in extensive therapy. Pretty poor reporting. They go from he had it in his bag to he is in extensive therapy. What happened in between?
Did he read it and start harming animals? Did he shut himself off from everyone? did he refuse to eat? Did he go about his life like normal but his mom threw him in therapy to gain sympathy points for her proto-fascist MADD wannabe group?
We need answers to this.
The irony is that many of the activities depicted in the more violent manga are relatively rare in real life in Japan. Access by minors is less than you might think largely because nearly any adult can shake his or her finger at nearly any kid and say "You shouldn't be reading that," and the parents will come to the defense...of the adult. Try that one in the States.
When I lived there my neighborhood Mom & Pop had vending machines containing manga, soft-porn mags, beer, and, yes, whiskey, and it was less than half a block from a secondary school. The kids didn't bother them because they knew what would happen if they did. America used to be a little like that but it isn't anymore. Just a thought.
He checked out The Audacity of Hope? Dreams of My Father? If he read It Takes A Village therapy will be useless.
There are segments of Japanese pop culture that are fixated with extreme rape and violence against women. Some of which is fairly mainstream.
It isn’t outside the realm of possibility for manga to deal with some subject matter that is quite extreme and depraved.