Fantia has published a lengthy statement explaining why it abruptly introduced stricter content guidelines earlier this month and why it has now decided to restore its previous moderation standards for 2D content.
Fantia confirmed that the platform will return to its previous standards for 2D content while maintaining stricter rules for live-action works.
The company’s full statement, which garnered almost 3 million views in less than a day:
[Important] Regarding the circumstances behind the revision of our Content Guidelines, our future operational policy, and when the changes will take effect
Thank you for always using Fantia.
We sincerely apologize for the tremendous inconvenience, concern, and confusion caused to the many creators and users who support Fantia following the recent revision of our Content Guidelines.
We would like to explain the events leading up to this matter, as well as our concrete policy going forward.
Recently, police informed us that certain content on the platform could potentially constitute a violation of Article 175 of Japan’s Criminal Code, which prohibits the distribution of obscene materials.
After internal discussions, we concluded that stricter guidelines were necessary. There have been actual cases where both live-action and non-live-action content have resulted in arrests and punishment under Article 175, and we believed stronger rules were needed to eliminate the legal risks identified.
Although all of the content specifically identified by police was live-action material, we believed the warning was not explicitly limited to live-action works. Furthermore, because Article 175 can generally apply to both live-action and 2D content, we concluded that improving only one category would not sufficiently eliminate the legal concerns that had been raised.
Based on this understanding, we established new guidelines for 2D content using commercially distributed digital manga as a benchmark, and announced the revisions on an emergency basis in order to reduce the legal risk faced by both Fantia and its users.
However, we recognize that this sudden policy change placed a tremendous burden on creators. As a result, we sought further clarification from the police.
Through those discussions, we confirmed that while Article 175 can generally apply to both live-action and 2D content, the specific materials that police considered potentially illegal were, in fact, live-action works.
Based on that clarification, we have decided on the following policy:
For 2D content
We will not implement the new standards. Instead, we will return to our previous review criteria. We will also improve our review system and standardize moderation quality so that it does not significantly diverge from other creator support platforms or generally accepted social standards.
For live-action content
The new standards currently in effect will continue to apply. If previously approved content no longer meets those standards, we will contact creators individually and request revisions where necessary.
We will also improve our review process to better align with industry standards, including those used for properly regulated adult video productions and other distribution platforms.
Our platform guidelines are voluntary self-regulation standards established by Fantia after considering advice from relevant organizations and the current legal environment. They do not eliminate or guarantee protection from future legal risks or criminal investigations.
We ask all creators to comply with these standards while exercising appropriate care and responsibility in the content they create and publish.
Looking back, we acknowledge that our decision to change the guidelines so abruptly was overly hasty.
Although our intention was to protect creators and ensure the continued operation of the service by minimizing legal risks, the result was that we imposed strict restrictions uniformly, causing significant inconvenience and confusion for many creators and users.
As a platform operator, we will continue striving to maintain a safe and lawful service. When police or other public authorities raise concerns, we will continue to respond sincerely.
At the same time, decisions regarding our platform’s operating standards will remain Fantia’s own independent judgment, made with expert advice, so that creators and users can continue using the platform with confidence.
Once again, we deeply apologize to all creators and users for the disruption caused by our hasty policy changes.
We remain committed to protecting creators’ opportunities for expression while appropriately managing the platform’s legal risks and continuing to improve our operations.
Seems like a pretty convenient scapegoat with the new MTL for foreigners dropping instantly the moment the new censorship rules took effect.
Still, Japan’s obscenity laws are retarded as f♥♥k and they need to do away with them, as well as telling foreigners to f♥♥k off, too.
>Japan’s obscenity laws are retarded as f♥♥k and they need to do away with them,
It will take a century(we are nearing that) or two for them to finally reconsider it. If they are still around that time, I heard they aren’t making enough Japanese babies!
Well they probably won’t listen to a dumbass foreigner like you. So sit the f♥♥k down
And here comes the dismissive ban evading tranny faggot on his alt
You’re so buck broken lmfao
You can’t be a insular nation that’s heavily reliant on foreign tourism money and also tell foreigners to f♥♥k off while without fucking up your cash flow.
Figure out how they’re supposed to magically do both, and you get a handshake and told to officially f♥♥k off as thanks for solving that issue.
Tourism money from people going and spending countless dollars on Pokemon plushies and tours of historical sites isn’t the same as the money they get from wokealization of Japanese, which isn’t much, btw. The largest foreign distributors are Netflix and Crunchyroll and they brought in 2 billion and 1 billion in total revenue last year, respectively.
Revenue, not profit.
If we’re being very, very, VERY generous here let’s say that 50% of that ended up being profit, which is highly unlikely with media production in general. That’s 1.5 billion last year, 2025.
At the very best the Japanese side probably saw ~50% of that. Now that’s down to 750 million, with an M. Split that up amongst dozens of studios and their upper level staff, advertising, etc. and it becomes a very paltry amount very, very quickly.
For the record, Japan generates around $11 billion in anime domestically. Netflix and Crunchyroll together generate barely more than 25% of that, and, being EXTREMELY generous at best, ~12.5% of that is actually seen by the Japs. Realistically, closer to like 5-8%.
So yeah, no big deal. All foreign distribution of anime could die overnight and it would just seem like a slightly slow year for anime revenue for Japan, nothing remotely catastrophic like a 50%+ drop in revenue.
lol
So yes, boot foreigners the f♥♥k out, retard
See? Just as I said. Absolutely stupid and totally predictable.
As opposed to your tranny tourist spam of “Oh yeah? Well (snarky homo one liner)” every-single-time you do after searching for my posts every article, because you got dunked on for writing seethe walls on your trantrannypoo account whining about downvotes
Pack it up turd world tranny
If your only evidence is speculation and not fact, you won’t convince anyone important that isolationism in the modern market will solve anything. Name-drop as many relevant industries for exports and anime as you want; the issue is that Japan sees most of it’s returns on inbound visitors, not just what it can sell to media tech giants.
I’m not under the illusion that closing their gates will do anything other than slowly starve their own people out, especially in the current situation where land is heavily controlled in urban areas, and the complete disparity between rural and urban living entirely devalues any incentives for farming or self-sustainable food options outside of trade, which is proven by the consistent placement among the largest importers on the planet.
Countries that trade food with Japan don’t do so with no benefit to them, and companies stationed in Japan have no obligation to do business on behalf of the country itself; becoming isolated would only create a situation where China or another power could quietly swoop in and eradicate as many people as possible, and this isn’t even a worst case scenario as history has proven. The USA also will never give up such a profitable vassal country–much of the tech they rely on is refined by Japanese hands and would set them back at least three decades trying to reverse-engineer from nothing but the tech currently on the open market.
They are literally too valuable for some isolationist dream of “muh pure country”, and that value is what keeps their people fed and able to dominate the tech market. At least remember that they have more markets than just pretty pictures on your phone screen, dumbass.
It’s not speculation, faggot retard, that’s me being generous knowing the real numbers for media production are far less forgiving in financial outlook. You do know when a new movie releases that the barest minimum standard 99.99% of films have is that they need to make 2.5x their budget just to break even financially, right? It’s closer to 4x, sometimes higher. Now why don’t you think about the implications about that for animation and TV in general? Especially when dozens of different studios with their own branching advertising/marketing operations are at play, not even getting into paying for materials and employees.
Anime can’t simultaneously be “on the brink of collapse, animators are basically barely alive” and then “erm actually it’s a flourishing medium because of western saviors graciously giving them money from tourism(???)” Shut the f♥♥k up and make up your minds.
Dropping foreign distribution of their media would not “starve them out” in the slightest, in reality they’d see around a 20% difference at worst in yearly revenue. Again, a slow year. Nor would having more restrictions on foreigners in general, that’s not me saying “STOP ALL TRADE WITH FOREIGNERS AND CLOSE THE COUNTRY”.
Bringing up retarded s♥♥t like food production and trying to like it to, and co-opt this discussion of foreigners having unfettered access to their country and r4p1ng their media production with censorship is laughable at best, too. Japan MUST trade for food, it can’t survive on its own domestic production even if it was increased a lot. Why? Japan simply doesn’t have the arable land needed to support its population, you can thank its mountainous landscape for that. Then it also needs to rely on other materials for agricultural operations like importing fuel, chemicals, fertilizers, etc.
“Japan should focus on Japan first instead of pleasing foreign retards” is not “Japan needs to close the country down, stop doing trade and wither away”. It is not mutually exclusive with Japan still doing trade with other countries or allowing respectful tourists to still come and buy s♥♥t, and you’re a dishonest faggot for implying so. Japan doesn’t have to add faggot trannyism LGTVWTFBBQ propaganda to their schools, media, hiring practices, etc. to survive, they don’t need to let in infinity brown people to survive, they don’t need to keep trying to chase a nebulous “global audience” with everything they do to survive. They were doing just fine up until the turn of the decade.
In fact, they’re going to suffer the same fate as western countries did before them that became brown invader riddled shitholes if they don’t start protecting themselves and their culture. Their native people are going to be priced out of jobs, crime WILL go up, cost of living will skyrocket even more and as a result there will be even less Japanese people feeling like having children, so the vicious cycle will feed back into itself once again. More browns, more lost jobs, etc. But hey, at least a billion censored anime adaptations were release and their porn still survives for the most part, but only until Visa/Mastercard decides it’s time to go. Thriving!!11!11!!!!!!!!
>where China or another power could quietly swoop in and eradicate as many people as possible,
Naw, pretty sure Japan can do it their own like so many CCs said that Japan will disappear soon with its dead economy and negative population.
And if China hasn’t made an attempt to take Taiwan as US is focusing in West Asia, then I doubt they are even looking at Japan, clearly speaking.
Anyway, it’s true that Japan won’t survive the gatekeep/isolation attempt unless they want to completely destroy what made post-war Japan is. However, if they are willing to stomach the suffering and innovate/survive with available resource, they probably could. There are examples of countries that are sanctioned long-time but still survive to this day. Of course, that would require a complete reform/coup of their policies and realigning interests that will cause conflict, both internal and external.
You expect a dumbass like him to actually have solutions? To have actually thought about the dogshit he spews? Like most people here, he’ll just blame DEI or woke or the Jews and reject reason in favor of his prejudices.
The solution is to boot foreigners out of media production you piss poor reading comprehension turd world tranny
Try again!
Funny how these “national laws” never affect sites restricted only nationally but mainly sites with ‘global’ access and targeting…
Pure bullshit excuses, this has to do with international censorship pressure I bet, and these come from the nationals themselves!
Yes they do? Every single Japanese porn site is censored because of this law. The global ones are usually less censored since they aren’t restricted by the law.
Well, that puts a different complexion on the matter. I had assumed that this was strictly a matter of placating the credit card corpos. I know you others believed the same thing. If Johnny Law is on the case, I can’t blame this company for doing what they believed they needed to do. Feel free to criticize them over a matter that doesn’t affect you in any way what-so-ever, we all know you will.
Regarding Japanese censorship. I have observed that the Japanese seem to consider sin and vice to be an ordinary and necessary aspect of human life. Organized crime exists to supply the need. The police and anti-laws exist to control it and keep it in check.
To paraphrase a line from the book Tokyo Vice, A policeman explained that the anti-prostitution law was passed in 1956 to stop poor farming families from bringing their teenage daughters to the cities and selling them into sexual slavery. (That’s slightly off topic, but I found it interesting.)
In discussion with a doujinshi author I first learned that to prove that your work isn’t pornographic you get a (literal) stamp of approval from an off duty police officer who has reviewed it. Said stamp is paid for, of course. If the Japanese censorship laws went away, many cops would lose an alternate source of income. It may prove easier to remove the American tipping culture.
The Japanese controls on vice are a deeply ingrained system of checks and balances that won’t be easily upset.