Florida Mother Accuses Manga Of Causing Mental Problems For Her Teen
Both ICv2.com and Brigid Alverson have write-ups on an incident whereby a mother accused manga that her teen swiped from a library as being a contributing cause of mental issues suffered by that young person, and further indicted all manga for having the potential to do the same. These claims were made in a public meeting, although it looks like library and city officials have looked into the matter with a degree of rational thought in dispensing their public duties and sensitivity to the mother's plight. I do wonder given the nature of manga sales and a potential dip in their desirability and thus the ground-level reasoning of "we stock this because people want it" if that might eventually change the way such incidents are handled, but I guess that's something we'll have to see rather than something on which we'll learn anything through speculation.
