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different genres and media.
And why are
we talking about this site? Well, because a few hours ago it was reported that
all information about the anime “ Mahou Shoujo ni
Akogarete ( Gushing over Magical Girls )” has
been eliminated for violating the site's usage regulations. Curiously,
TV Tropes has a “transparency policy”, and there is a forum where we can see
the entire exchange of opinions of the site's moderators before deciding to
remove the series:
- If we look at the guidelines set
out on the rules and procedures page of the Content Infringement
Discussions forum , for “Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete” we will be
guided by the four criteria listed in the “What we're looking for”
section:
- Pure porn, or porn with only a
plot – (NO) The manga has a fairly complex plot that parodies the
traditional tropes of the magical girl genre, although with a lot of
obscene fanservice and some sporadic sex scenes, and in some aspects the
fanservice is used to advance the plot.
- Anything that has explicit sex
with minors – (YES) The main characters and most of their rivals are
14 years old and repeatedly engage in explicit sexual activities that are
used as fanservice. The only saving grace, if you can call it that, is
that this is softcore porn.
- Implied Tween or Underage Sex –
(NO, DEPUTABLE) Nero Alice (Morino Korisu) is nine years old, but tends to
avoid getting into ecchi and softcore hentai shenanigans, instead using
her powers to make it easier for others to get into said shenanigans. ,
usually following Magia Baiser's instructions, with Leopard trying (and
often failing) to keep her distracted from observing what is happening.
The times she is directly involved in risque situations are usually when
she dresses up to look like an adult using her powers - when she
"plays nurse" with Utena and removes Magia Magenta's (Haruka
Hanabishi) skirt and panties when she urinates while "playing
house" - and when she joins in spanking the exposed rear of one of
the other girls.
- Fanservice intended to satisfy
pedophiles (lolicon and shotacon fanservice can count) – (YES) A debatable example, but
Magia Sulfur (Kaoruko Tenkawa) and Leberblume (Nemo Anemo) are
flat-chested 14-year-old girls who are still the subject of same type of
racy antics as the more "mature" looking girls, and participate
in several of the series' occasional explicit sex scenes. While Tanaka
Michiko is a 20-year-old woman and looks her age in her civilian form and
as Lord Enorme, Magia Baiser visualizes her as a girl, strips her and
spanks her to defeat her; and in the form of her La Verità - which she
regularly uses to go undercover as the magical girl Imitatio (Imita Shion)
- she looks like a preteen, but is still used for fanservice.
As we can
see, the site classified “Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete (Gushing over
Magical Girls)” as a series with “ explicit sex content with
minors ” and with “ fanservice intended to satisfy pedophiles ”,
quite extreme assertions. However, it seems that the decision is final, so
there is no way for the series to be included in this encyclopedia again.
Now, the
most worrying thing would be, what other sites could come to the same
conclusion and remove the series from their catalogs? And what's
worse, what other series could go through the same fate?
- " In the meantime,
Bakemonogatari is still available on that site ."
- « I mean, it's an anime
about high school schoolgirls who are constantly naked. It is not the best
for any mainstream site .
- « Isn't it the series
that focuses on sexually assaulting underage girls? Literally Utena and
all the other girls are like 14 years olds, so it is normal for ordinary
people to consider it child pornography .
- « So, a series that can
be legally watched on Crunchyroll is child pornography? Sure… ".
- " Oh yes, of
course, the site where Fate/Kaleid liner Prisma Illya is still available ."
- « TV Tropes has removed
many mature stories or removed them from their website. And yet, there are
some stories that are very dark and very serialized that remain intact in
TV Tropes. The website has to mature and stop censoring good stories .
- « Ah yes, the classic
"this anime shows fictional high school girls' boobs, therefore it's
child pornography." There's a reason I only check TVTropes when I'm
looking for information these days and I literally have no other choice.
It's not that different from Tumblr ."
- « I still enjoy using TV
Tropes, but over the years I've noticed some pretty questionable changes
that I don't really agree with, like the removal of entire tropes and
pages that were deemed inappropriate or too nebulous to be useful, or
something like that . This is the last victim ».
- « Every ecchi anime that
has a high school setting does this. As if they were going to be fans,
they have to go all the way ."
- « I went to see the
Tsugumomo page out of curiosity and they deleted all the manga tropes. I
don't know what the point of that is, unless they're implying that
everything the manga does is that lewd. Surely a simple summary of the
plot would not burn the eyes of the poor children ».
- « I mean I think it's
lolicon material. Not all, but a good part. More and more platforms are
saying no to everything lolicon. Soon it seems that only Twitter will
allow it .
- « There are times when I
see something like this and I get an uncontrollable desire to try to purge
everything else that is just as bad or worse. I don't really want them to,
of course, but I also want to see what happens. I want to be petty ».
Source: @TheGoldenSmurfon Twitter
