[ANIME] Shipments of popular anime stopped due to offensive scene

Mainichi Daily News reported, “A leading publisher has stopped shipments of DVDs of popular animation “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure” and relevant volumes of the book after discovering that one of the scenes could offend Muslims.”

“Shueisha Inc. and animation company A.P.P.P. Co. said a scene in Episode 6 of “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure” depicted the Quran in an inappropriate way.”

“In the scene, Jojo’s enemy is shown dropping a book that contains some text from the Quran. The Quran does not appear in the same scene in the original cartoon book, but the staff of the animation company added the Arabic text to the book without knowing that the text was part of the Quran, according to Shueisha.”

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