A petition made by a Japanese user on Change.org titled "Men are not Wolves" was recently opened, asking Shueisha publishing house and the editorial department of Shonen Jump magazines not to rate the "abuse and / or sexual harassment ”under the category of ecchi, since this minimizes this type of act.
While this could be classified as a “SJW (Social Justice Warriors)” category petition, in reality in the Japanese language sexual harassment (at all levels) has always been qualified as “ecchi”. The words “エ ッ チ (Ecchi)” and “エ ロ (Ero)” are very loosely defined, even among the Japanese themselves. Any character spanking a girl is considered ecchi, but it is still a form of bullying, no matter how innocent or childish the intention is described.署名ページだけでも、読んでみてほしい。— シオリーヌ🩸大貫詩織 (@shiori_mw) August 18, 2020
「株式会社集英社: ぼくたちは/男子たちは 狼なんかじゃない。 少年ジャンプは「エロ」と「性暴力」の違いを区別してください。」 https://t.co/8Vztketdey @change_jpより
Network users agree that it will be interesting to see how this request could affect what will be considered "ecchi" in the future. Some Shueisha magazines have “Shounen (Young)” in the title, however, the average audience is much larger, which shows that erotic works work. All they have to do, according to users, is rate it properly.
He continues: “If Shueisha is able to correctly categorize and separate R-15 erotic works, it will probably fare even better at those works by avoiding unnecessary controversy. The way manga is distributed digitally nowadays makes works for older people easily mixed with those aimed at children or adolescents under the age of fifteen. "
In Japan there are all kinds of sexual harassment. Many Japanese people minimize a spanking or touching as "harmless ecchi", something that was demonstrated by the recent events of the Act-Age writer, who was arrested for sexually assaulting two underage girls. The phrase is commonly read. "I'm not that bad, it's not like I've raped someone or touched a minor." The above, according to users, shows how deteriorated the definition of harassment is in Japan.
Finally, the petition highlights some interesting points, noting that it does not seek to boycott the publisher, but simply must correctly categorize its content. “If we sell sex, we should at least label it as such and add a content warning. Simply calling it "Ecchi" is not enough. "
Finally, the petition (link) was closed with 4,190 signatures collected in a period of nine days, and will be sent to the publisher shortly.
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