My Hero Academia and Assassination Classroom are the two most frequently banned manga titles in the United States.According to data from PEN America and the EveryLibrary Institute, at least 15 different manga series were either challenged or banned from 15 school districts in the U.S. between July 2022 and September 2023. As detailed on Comicsbeat earlier this month, Yusei Matsui’s sci-fi comedy Assassination Classroom has been pulled from shelves in 10 different school districts over concerns about the series glorifying or promoting school shootings. Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia has received two formal bans, with lawmakers deeming it to be inappropriately sexual for young readers. Atsushi Ohkubo’s Soul Eater and Yana Toboso’s Black Butler have likewise each netted two bans. The frequent censorship of these and other manga indicates a broader initiative against Japanese media in the United States.The majority of these bans originate from Republican-governed states, where conservative and/or religious groups frequently campaign for lawmakers to pull allegedly inappropriate material from libraries. Earlier this year, school districts in Florida and Wisconsin banned Assassination Classroom after complaints from the Indian River County Chapter of Moms For Liberty and the Christian-based non-profit Citizens Defending Freedom. Both organizations accused the manga of explicitly promoting gun violence against educators. This argument stems from the fact that the manga’s plot revolves around a group of students plotting to murder their teacher, who is actually a malevolent alien being that pledges to destroy the earth unless the students can kill him within a year.RELATED: Jujutsu Kaisen, My Hero Academia, Dragon Ball Super All Make NYT Bestseller List
My Hero Academia and Assassination Classroom are the two most frequently banned manga titles in the United States.
According to data from PEN America and the EveryLibrary Institute, at least 15 different manga series were either challenged or banned from 15 school districts in the U.S. between July 2022 and September 2023. As detailed on Comicsbeat earlier this month, Yusei Matsui’s sci-fi comedy Assassination Classroom has been pulled from shelves in 10 different school districts over concerns about the series glorifying or promoting school shootings. Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia has received two formal bans, with lawmakers deeming it to be inappropriately sexual for young readers. Atsushi Ohkubo’s Soul Eater and Yana Toboso’s Black Butler have likewise each netted two bans. The frequent censorship of these and other manga indicates a broader initiative against Japanese media in the United States.
The majority of these bans originate from Republican-governed states, where conservative and/or religious groups frequently campaign for lawmakers to pull allegedly inappropriate material from libraries. Earlier this year, school districts in Florida and Wisconsin banned Assassination Classroom after complaints from the Indian River County Chapter of Moms For Liberty and the Christian-based non-profit Citizens Defending Freedom. Both organizations accused the manga of explicitly promoting gun violence against educators. This argument stems from the fact that the manga’s plot revolves around a group of students plotting to murder their teacher, who is actually a malevolent alien being that pledges to destroy the earth unless the students can kill him within a year.
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