🐱 Goblin Slayer Threatened With Ban, Legal Action by Texas Lawmaker

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The edgy dark fantasy series faces new scrutiny as a Republican lawmaker pledges to ban the series from schools and go after vendors who sell it.

A Texas lawmaker has singled out Goblin Slayeras an "obscene" book.

As reported by the Houston Chronicle, Matt Shaheen, the Republican representative of Texas' 66th district, has singled out writer Kumo Kagyu and illustrator Noboru Kannatsuki's edgy fantasy novels and manga as an example of "obscene" works that should be banned from Texas schools. Shaheen did not specify which schools carried the book, whose English-language manga release features an explicit content warning on its cover, but he used the story as an example of the types of work that he and other Texas lawmakers are trying to ban from schools. "Specific examples found in public schools that align with the above definition include graphic images of women being raped by demons and little boys performing sexual acts on each other. Anyone who believes this is acceptable is mentally ill," Shaheen said. In addition to a banning libraries from carrying the book, the lawmaker also implied legal action against vendors who carry the series. "We will be going after the vendors that sold this trash to Texas children."

Goblin Slayer is no stranger to controversy. The anime adaptation, which was produced by Re:ZERO animation studio White Fox, was met with sharp criticism upon its premiere in 2018 for its gratuitous depictions of sexual violence. The series' graphic content caused retailer Kinokuniya to pull the manga from its stores in Australia. The anime series was streamed internationally by Crunchyroll, who added a content warning to the series shortly after its premiere. A second season of the show is currently in production.

Shaheen is part of a wider movement of lawmakers across the United States who have sought to ban media that discusses issues related to LGBTQ+ rights, race relations, and other controversial topics. The push has seen graphic novels such as Jerry Craft's Newberry Award-winning New Kid and Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize winning Maus banned from schools in Tennessee's McMinn County. The push in Texas to ban obscene media from schools has mostly been focused around Gender Queer: A Memoir, an autobiographical coming-of-age comic about non-binary author Maia Kobabe's adolescence. Supporters say the bans are necessary to protect children from pornographic and obscene material, while detractors have accused the bans of infringing on free speech rights and for primarily targeting authors and stories from minorities and other marginalized groups.

Kagyu and Kannatsuki's original light novel series and its manga adaptation from author Kosuke Kurose are both available in English from Yen Press.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

I remember when Goblin Slayer came out and hoe much pearl clutching there was over it. Last summer I attempted to watch it to see how bad it was.

I haven't watched a lot of media with rape scenes in it, but that was very underwhelming for how people reacted to it. I expected much much worse. Maybe that's just me.

Also I watched until episode 8. It sucked overall.

 

[Safir]

This is a retarded clickbait ad for Chinese cartoons and all of you should have at least looked at the original Houston Chronicle article.

 

[TowinKarz]

Why would this ever been in a school in the first place? Just stupid fucking political pandering like usual.

I don't know if I like this fusion of Current Year and 1993.... where Republicans moralize about "da chillruns" being corrupted in school, with proof being an adult comic book that somehow got inside..... while the actual curriculum is full of "How to have Gay Sex" books, with step-by-step pictures, that parents go on a terrorism watchlist for complaining about. They're actually RIGHT this time, but still go after the wrong things.

The only thing more infuriating about conservatives being unable to find their balls as our rights get stripped is their unerring ability to go after the wrong targets when they do decide enough is enough.

They're the IRL version of the joke "NCAA so mad at Michigan for recruitment violations, they sanctioned Appalachian State"

 

[Kheapathic]

Already been said, but the first episode/story was an attention grabber and to help show that despite being considered low level enemies; goblins are evil and should not be taken lightly. That's about all the grim/dark it has, after that there's only hints of rape and such from when they go into Goblin lairs and find captured females; but this is far from the levels of Berserk or whatever your favorite fantasy series is. I'm not sure how to feel on this one, are they overreacting, yes; but with them taking aim at keeping sexual alphabet books out, I'm expecting there to be shots that hit other things. So that being said, kids can go to Barnes & Nobles and stand around in the Manga section like we used to do back in the old days, or just go to one of the many scan/translation sites and read it there.

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

Meanwhile you never seem to hear about that other animu series about the cleric that reverses time so he can rape, brainwash and murder everyone that wronged him in his previous life.

Do tell.

 

[I Love Beef]

First Texas is coming for the fags and now for the weaboos. How can one state be so based?

Lol, what are you talking about, Houston took the blue pill and there are so many California carpetbaggers there now, even the local anime dubbing company is blue pilled.

Sounds like some gay op in bipartisan moral outrage virtuesignalling to me.

 

[Book Thief]

It never ceases to amaze me on how a series about why rape is bad continues to attract so much controversy. On one hand, you have the feminazis screaming "MISOGYNY," even though those are the types who scream "TEACH MEN NOT TO RAPE" from the rooftops. On the other, you have "concerned parent groups," who believe they need to ban a series that's clearly labelled that it's not for kids to "protect the children."

 

[Screw Danlon]

Just because it’s cartoons doesn’t mean it’s for kids.

We had this with Akira and Legend of the Overfiend in the 80’s. We still have it today. As long as they’re just saying “don’t put this in school libraries”, I have no issue with this.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Lemme just look at Amazon... click click....

• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up

Yah, I found the problem. You're letting children read mature content.

Classic case of an idiot seeing a comic and automatically assuming it's for kids. This guy probably shat himself when he rented Ninja Scroll for his kids.

 

[SBG]

"We will be going after the vendors that sold this trash to Texas children."

Well this is a bit nuts. It's the school that fucked up by getting the book that has a warning on the front. Could've stuck to the reasonable position that the grimdark comic with tons of edge didn't belong in schools, but instead of blaming the schools alone he wants to go full book burning with going after the vendors.

Makes sense politically, it's a lot easier to imagine them going after the vendor than the schools who flagrantly ignore the laws like happened with banning mask mandates. But also shows how these people are so pathetic they won't go after the real problem since it'd mean having to attack the funding of these schools (if they wanted to seriously force them to do anything).

 

[Crazedking]

Do tell.

"Redo of healer" if you are interested. Dude can heal anything but experience the injuries he heals. So first time around he refuses to heal so hes basically drugged, raped and abused into compliance to join the "heroes" of the world. In their final moment, he reveals hes no longer under the effect of the drug and that his power also give him the experience of the people he heals. He single handlely defeats the heroes and the big bad. (thats the intro btw) Instead of gloating in his victory, he use the power of the demonqueen/big bad to do an immense spell where he "heals"/redo the world/timeline but with his consciousness intact. The story is basically is whole revenge plot to rape and/or kill the people who wronged him in the previous timeline.

Its actually pretty funny anime with stuff like the guy "heals" his dick to make it hard again and donkeypunch a girl in the face. Its like a super edgy version of The shield hero.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

This is a situation where everyone is an idiot. The school should have known this manga was for adults and the glorified hooker should have, too.

 

[Ruin]

"Redo of healer" if you are interested. Dude can heal anything but experience the injuries he heals. So first time around he refuses to heal so hes basically drugged, raped and abused into compliance to join the "heroes" of the world. In their final moment, he reveals hes no longer under the effect of the drug and that his power also give him the experience of the people he heals. He single handlely defeats the heroes and the big bad. (thats the intro btw) Instead of gloating in his victory, he use the power of the demonqueen/big bad to do an immense spell where he "heals"/redo the world/timeline but with his consciousness intact. The story is basically is whole revenge plot to rape and/or kill the people who wronged him in the previous timeline.

Redo of Healer is also hilariously drawn and written by a women and was the top selling manga in the female 18-35 demographic for like six straight months in Japan.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Redo of Healer is also hilariously drawn and written by a women and was the top selling manga in the female 18-35 demographic for like six straight months in Japan.

The first six or so Rance games were also written by women. Women can be massive, fucked up perverts. Men don't have a monopoly on that.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Redo of Healer is also hilariously drawn and written by a women and was the top selling manga in the female 18-35 demographic for like six straight months in Japan.

The amount of near-hentai/hentai manga that are done by women are amusing when you look into it. They also tend to be like Redo and go fucking hard. I'd say Japan is a weird place, but it might just be a woman thing. In addition to the Japs being weird.

 

[Ruin]

The amount of near-hentai/hentai manga that are done by women are amusing when you look into it. They also tend to be like Redo and go fucking hard. I'd say Japan is a weird place, but it might just be a woman thing. In addition to the Japs being weird.

Aren't the vast majority of Japanese men weird sexless shut ins? I'd say that probably contributes to Japanese women being starved for intimacy.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Aren't the vast majority of Japanese men weird sexless shut ins? I'd say that probably contributes to Japanese women being starved for intimacy.

Western women are no strangers to making this sort of stuff, though. Almost all the most messed up fan fiction is written by teenaged girls and women.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Makes me wonder if they would allow World End's Harem at school. After all no rape and no little boy sex

That's the one where those high school kids get cryo'd and wake up in a world where they're the only men left and every woman is reproduction crazy, right?

Stuff's lowkey smart-- they put them under cryogenesis for years so it's technically not statutory.

...I still don't think I could stomach it, especially since they have to have "uncensored" versions.

Things are getting so shitty under Biden the Republican party is making huge gains so what do Republicans decide to do? Bring back the moral majority which is about as popular as ass cancer.

If it's wrong for schoolkids to have "Gender Queer" in their library shelves because it has depictions of boys blowing each other, I don't think it's proper for them to have Goblin Slayer in their libraries on account of it having a depiction of a woman getting gangraped by goblins.

Redo of Healer is also hilariously drawn and written by a women and was the top selling manga in the female 18-35 demographic for like six straight months in Japan.

Was that ever confirmed? I know a similar assertion was circulated when Shield Hero was making waves but I don't think anybody has a picture of its creator and "Aneko Yusagi" might just be a pen name.

 

[Darksy DePhil]

Watch weebniggers here instantly flip their opinions on le based texas after the tranny law

 

[Kari Kamiya]

The light novel is rated OT according to Yen Press' site and from what I've seen in person. Meanwhile, the manga and everything else associated with it is M-rated with "Explicit Content" stamped on the covers with new copies wrapped up in cellophane. Whoever's in charge of these libraries are fucking idiots for ordering these and ignoring that, or the librarians pulling these from their own personal collections are idiots for not thinking that "Gee, M ratings are typically for adults, but games and movie R-ratings have them listed as for 17-and-up. Senior high school students can read this, I don't see freshman picking this up, no-siree."

The whining about the ratings are just as retarded, though, such as this example:

Both sides of the same coin.

Guys like violence and tits especially once they hit puberty. The librarians have their fingers on the pulse of what the teen public wants, but the schools should've still known better than to have these and not expect some kind of backlash from some dummy. FFS my Japanese teacher didn't allow manga in the classroom out of precaution because even the most family-friendly manga could have something that'd get some higher-up/parental prudish snob in a tizzy.

Punishing the vendors and distributors is going too far, though. Leave the bookstores alone, they're already struggling enough as it is.