CN China bans violent or vulgar cartoons and anime as its crackdown on the entertainment industry continues

• China banned violent and vulgar children's TV shows and a popular anime show was already censored.
• The regulatory agency announced cartoons should promote "truth, good, and beauty."
• China has tried to enforce morality in a broader crackdown on the entertainment industry.

In the latest sign of China's crackdown on the country's entertainment industry, Chinese authorities announced a ban on violent, vulgar, and bloody children's TV shows on Friday and sparked an uproar among social media users when a popular anime show was censored from streaming services.

The regulations apply to network shows and those hosted on streaming networks. After the ban was announced, the popular Japanese anime series "Ultraman Tiga" was censored from Chinese streaming services, much to the anger of Chinese fans.

Though many posts about the show's ban have now been deleted, the hashtag about the show's removal was viewed 84 million times, with people complaining about losing a staple of their childhood, according to CNN. The show aired from 1996 to 1997, and includes five spin-off movies.

"The content of broadcasts should be healthy and progressive and should promote truth, good, and beauty in cartoons," a statement from the National Radio and Television Administration said. The regulatory body also said that children were the primary audience for cartoons and that streaming services should set up children's channels with child-appropriate content with shows that promote "healthy development" among young people.

The Chinese government has implemented a far-reaching crackdown on the entertainment industry, including prohibiting children from playing video games for more than three hours a week, discouraging broadcasters from casting "effeminate men" on TV shows, and suspending K-pop fan accounts on social media.

The government also erased an enormously popular actress from Chinese social media and deleted her movies from streaming services without explaining why.

The heightened incursions into the entertainment industry are mostly focused on promoting a specific idea of morality within film and TV.

This isn't the first time that a Chinese authority has tried to discourage the viewing of certain children's TV shows due to violence. In April, the Jiangsu Consumer Council announced that 21 children's cartoons, including "Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures" and "My Little Pony," weren't appropriate for kids.

The state-run newspaper the Global Times hinted that half of the cartoons referenced in the investigation had "violent criminal elements to varying degrees," including beatings, arson, and intimidation.

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[Samir]

3 hours of video games, 30 minutes of Tik Tok, violent and vulgar cartoons banned, they're on a streak. What will China do next? (Besides invading Taiwan/bombing of Kobe: 2)

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Why don't they just go all the way and ban all forms of fun? You're only allowed to sleep, eat, fuck for procreation, and work in the factories. But mostly work in the factories.

 

[Mewtwo_Rain]

Even worse is there are implications Chinese industries have sunk their tendrils into a majority of gaming corporations and Japan's anime industry. It's only a matter of time before people who were a-ok with China are going to have a freak melt down.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

I used to laugh when China did authoritarian shit like this but now I just feel nervous and sad.

 

[FunPosting101]

Oh look, the PRC is reminding us all that they are an authoritarian shithole, again.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Even worse is there are implications Chinese industries have sunk their tendrils into a majority of gaming corporations and Japan's anime industry. It's only a matter of time before people who were a-ok with China are going to have a freak melt down.

This. Remember, they ban voice actors for their games and anime who don't bow down to Lord Winnie the Pooh.

 

[Mewtwo_Rain]

As much as it will suck, I can't wait until normies, and neckbeards, and hardcore gamers and weebs/anime fanatatics are forced to fall on their moral dilemma sword of realizing tolerance is not all it's cracked up to be. The price is going to be a steep one for not coming to that conclusion sooner.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

This. Remember, they ban voice actors for their games and anime who don't bow down to Lord Winnie the Pooh.

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Just to state the Record.

Taiwan is a real country.
China is not a real country.

SUCK MY DICK XI.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

I used to laugh when China did authoritarian shit like this but now I just feel nervous and sad.

As BASED as some people call them in comparison with Clown Country people also need to remember they're just Red Chinese variants of Tipper Gore and Jack Thompson with a lot more power to get their censorship through.

 

[usernames can change now!]

Just to state the Record.

Taiwan is a real country.
China is not a real country.

SUCK MY DICK XI.

Taiwan isn't a country, it's a province of the Republic of China – the only legitimate government of all of China

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

As BASED as some people call them in comparison with Clown Country people also need to remember they're just Red Chinese variants of Tipper Gore and Jack Thompson with a lot more power to get their censorship through.

That is the scary part though, the autistic political lolcows can actually exert control over people.

 

[ChefKiss]

no hentai for coomunists will definitely undo selective murder of female babies for decades and solve the demographic crisis

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

As BASED as some people call them in comparison with Clown Country people also need to remember they're just Red Chinese variants of Tipper Gore and Jack Thompson with a lot more power to get their censorship through.

That is the scary part though, the autistic political lolcows can actually exert control over people.

They have way more influence then those old Clown country people ever did back in the day. I fully bet they could get a Japanese company or an american company to bend to them on an international scale.

 

[totallyrandomusername]

Taking away the Anime may actually be the tipping point for a revolution

 

[Uncle Sid]

China is basically just far-eastern-Europe, right?

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Why don't they just go all the way and ban all forms of fun? You're only allowed to sleep, eat, fuck for procreation, and work in the factories. But mostly work in the factories.

Only food allowed will be boiled carrots and mashed potatoes. No salt. All sex shall be done with both parties circumcised until an artificial alternative is figured out.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Only food allowed will be boiled carrots and mashed potatoes. No salt. All sex shall be done with both parties circumcised until an artificial alternative is figured out.

They beat you to it.

By the way, searching for "Chinese Wank Machine" on YouTube, I regret everything.

 

[Uranus Pink]

Okay bored autistic fuck decided to make real life milking machine?

 

[Snekposter]

China already tried to ban manga once for its decadence. It didn't work and they were forced to abandon it in favor of a barely-successful anti-yaoi crackdown. I hate to say it, but the Japanese have accomplished with funny drawings what they could not accomplish with bayonets.