Original title: The cartoonist complained about the limited smoking scene, do you think it should be okay?
I don’t know when, smoking has become a sensitive issue. Whether at home or abroad, whether it is a movie episode or a game animation, smoking scenes will be avoided and deleted. Especially in works involving minors, the restrictions on smoking scenes are stricter.
Although the smoking scene is limited, it is mainly to avoid adverse effects on minors. But whether such regulations are too strict and how effective they can be has been left in the minds of many people. Some time ago, manga artist Morita Shinbo, who is famous for his works as “School Comedy King”, also raised doubts about him.
On September 4th, Morita tweeted and complained that the shaman painting scene is nothing, but the smoking painting scene will be complained about, which is too weird. According to the before and after content of Morita’s Twitter, the cause of this incident seems to be related to the review of his “Tekken vs Steel” comic.
Morita tweeted a picture of the manga and said (the publisher) made such low quality edits without permission. If you can tell it, it will adjust itself. Comparing the screenshot posted by Morita to the original manga, it can be seen that the cigarette in the character’s hand has been syncronized. However, modifying this image only removed the cigarette, but the character’s hand remained in the smoking position.
Since smoking among minors is generally considered a manifestation of “not learning well”, in bad old school comics like “Tekken vs Steel Fist”, there are often scenes of characters smoking. Although in the era of bad manga, manga magazines have not been so sensitive to smoking. But in the current environment, it seems not so appropriate.
In fact, it is not uncommon to reconcile smoking scenes in anime and manga works. For example, the smoking scene of Chengtaro (age 17) in “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” was darkened, and Nakayama’s cigarette in “One Piece” was changed to lollipops, etc.
Regarding the question raised by Morita, some people complained that such an adjustment was meaningless. The problem of bad imitation can be bigger than smoking. Some people have also analyzed Morita’s opinion comparing sha people to smoking scenes: this happens because smoking is easier to do than sha people. Some children will imitate smoking after seeing it, but generally they will not imitate people who smoke…
So what do you think about smoking?
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