really - cause like hardly any popular, well-done, mainstream anime has SPAM associated to it huh? O wait - that is completely wrong -most do- I am not going to argue it is ok - but i am a fan just like u - I don mind it where u do - I will buy and u don't - hence the power of consumer - I think it is cute/funny - I certainly am not going to say the tongue is a Nosecone - a tongue is actually used as a Nosecone substitute in real life so if u mistake it I would not be suprised - I am not sure if u have ever tried Hun-Grrr but check it out - u will pr0lly love it - get offended - just don Starscream/cry and ruin the line for others - I wanna see where it goes - this is common in japan - I know it made your balloon knot pucker up cause u r a tightwad but let it go bro......

 

I don think this line is made for little children and again - that is not so odd in japan - o - and of course the end all u r a dumbass fact that some of the characters are known to be over the age of 18.....

 

that fact is hard to argue against huh?

 

my gf looks young - does that mean u wanna stop her from putting on lingerie for fear I may consider her an underage chick - lol - no it means if I start perving on underage chicks cause my gf looks young - I have issues - u r way off on this one man....sorry "d00d".

 

o - and trans is not ruined - and if this line continues as is - it will still not be ruined - in fact - I will go on a limb and say no matter what this does the line will no be ruined - even when they release the 2pack prime megs brokeback cybertron two pack and the primal/megs bestiality two pack - lol - we will still be here......

 

if gen 2 day glo and action masters did not ruin it nothing can.

 

ruru

Uh yeah I'm going with AM on this one.

 

Out of sight out of mind.

 

Yeah I'm nieve but hey this isn't Japan niether.

 

Whatever gets you off I guess.

goddamn guys, i'm not reading through all this Blot but Powerglide!

 

these arn't hurting a Powerglideing soul. not one god damn Powerglideing person. it's been stated NUMEROUS times that they arn't kids, and even if they where they arn't Powerglideing real. IT'S A GODDAMN TOY AND A PowerglideING COMIC BOOK. why do you want to raint on everybody's Powerglideing parade just because of YOUR pretentious Powerglideing moral convictions. WHO THE Powerglide ARE YOU TO DECLARE WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG FOR THE REST OF THE ENTIRE PowerglideING PLANET?!

 

bah, Powerglide this, it doesn't matter to me because i won't be buying them, but i'm pretty sure that while it's rumored pretty heavily that alts are dead, if these go i promise the alts will follow suit. although i doubt heavily that a few western Afterburners are gonna persuade big huge companies to change suit, xians have been trying this for YEARS and have gotten nowhere.

 

i can't wait till the "moral majority" find out deicide's playing here i think i'll have some fun egging the Afterburners.

Mountain out of a molehill. Something out of nothing. Furor over a toy. What do all these statements have in common?

brb, fbi

umm.. isn't Melissa meant to be 20 and NOT a minor? If so, then it's technically not child-eroticism (I think using the word "porn" to describe ecchi is a great exaggeration).

 

Btw Primal-Convoy, have you tried CALLING TakaraTomy's Customer Call Centre and lodging a complaint in person? Why not call and ask to speak directly to Mr. Takagi (he's Takara's head chief of their TF division - at least, he was when I spoke to him in 2004).

 

I just accept this as another way to market TF's in another culture that is different than my own, and then I move on with my life, kthx.

Exactly. Also, despite the fact that Japan has a more open culture of SPAM and ecchiness as well as violence in their fictional literature, they have statistically far lower rates of violent and sexual crimes; in fact, Japan has the 2nd lowest crime rate in the world. And despite the inherent flaws in statistical analyses, anyone who has ever lived in Japan will know that it is a very, very safe country. Even though I fought the worst street fight of my life in Japan, I will still atest that Japan is the safest country I've ever lived in.

 

Yet in Anglophonic nations we have far greater amounts of censorship regarding sexuality, nudity and violence and yet we have comparatively higher rates of sexual and violent crimes.

 

One argument that is that the higher exposure to fictional tragedy in Japanese manga and animé produces a Cathartic effect.

 

Also, remember that Binaltech and Binaltech Asterisk were both marketed exclusively at MATURE audiences. Look at the bottom of any BT/BTA box - it says 対象年齢15歳以上 ("For Ages 15 and Up") - a 15 year old is old enough to watch an M or MA rated movie which could contain just as explicit (if not moreso) sexual references than KISS Players.

 

Edit: According to online stores like this one KISS Players is, like BT/BTA, for Ages 15 and Up.

 

So considering that they are NOT marketing this toy at young children, shouldn't older audiences be given the freedom to choose whether or not they want to expose themselves to this kind of material?

The toys I don't see as much of a problem, even if the box art is a little iffy. The character is meant to be 20, even though she looks 14. I have a much bigger problem with that manga and Night Viper-tongue'd Mega-Whosits slobbering over an OBVIOUSLY prepubescent girl.

Some of you need to calm down a bit. "You can't ignore it and think it will go away". Well, not if other people buy it, no. At the same time, what if they do buy it? So what? What did that do to the rest of us? I'm not buying it, because I think it's stupid, with or without the comic. The boxart is crappy too. Anyway, I don't why some people insist on telling other people how to run their lives.... especially those not even in the same country as you, unless it affects you in some negative way.

If this toy was marketed towards children, I would understand the outrage. But it's not. The toy is marketed at mature collectors aged 15 and Up. Like I said before, 15 year olds are old enough to watch M and MA15+ rated movies which contain moderate levels of violence, drug references, adult themes, foul language etc. that children cannot be exposed to. Hell, 15 year olds are also legally allowed to by soft core nude magazines like The Picture.

 

http://magshop.com.au/images/Products/PPCM.jpgTake a close look at the censorship classification blurb on this magazine - it reads "UNRESTRICTED M (Mature) NOT RECOMMENDED FOR READERS UNDER 15 YEARS" - so really, if a 15 year old is old enough to buy this magazine then legally speaking I don't see why a 15 year old shouldn't be old enough to access other kinds of Ecchi material.

 

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this is so far from child pr0n - if u think this is child pr0n - u need to get out into the world a bit.....

I'd rather stay well away from the dark seedy corners of the world where hard core child porn is rampant. Thanks for the offer but no thanks. :wave