Japanese Manga
Tokyo Ghoul (2011 - 2014)
Tokyo Ghoul (2011 - 2014) is a japanese manga by Sui Ishida. Banned for containing violent and indecent criminal scenes.
Description
About the work
Tokyo Ghoul (2011 - 2014) is a japanese manga by Sui Ishida. Banned for containing violent and indecent criminal scenes.
Its interest lies partly in the way literary or informational writing gets collapsed into a public-morality problem. As a japanese manga, it can be read not only for subject matter but for the way form, tone, and circulation make a text feel dangerous, intimate, or politically usable to anxious officials.
It also matters as part of a wider censorship history in China. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: Banned for containing violent and indecent criminal scenes. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.
Overview
Why it was banned
Tokyo Ghoul (2011 - 2014) entered censorship debates as a japanese manga associated with morality, print scandal, and sexuality. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around obscenity and public morality.
The earliest event currently captured here is 20th-21st century in China, where Chinese state censors and party authorities banned or suppressed publication. Banned for containing violent and indecent criminal scenes. Banned for containing violent and indecent criminal scenes.
This entry is still incomplete: more jurisdictions, court orders, and translated justifications should be added over time.
This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.
Counter and critical readings
Context, rebuttals, and criticism
- Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds Dawn B. Sova
Surveys the legal and moral language used to suppress books as obscene.
- Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. Anne Lyon Haight
Useful for seeing how obscenity law and censorship habits changed over time.
- 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova
A compact reference on how censorship systems moved across states, churches, and courts.
Ban history
Known government actions
| Date | Jurisdiction | Action | Reason | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20th-21st century | China | banned or suppressed publication | Banned for containing violent and indecent criminal scenes. | Banned for containing violent and indecent criminal scenes. |
Sources
Harvested references for this page
- Wikipedia: Book censorship in China reference partial
- Wikipedia REST summary API database partial
- Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds book partial
- Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. book partial
- 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature book partial