It looks like some real right wing conservatives have control over there. Even titles of certain anime shows are considered too offensive for the general public to see without disclaimers. It's not quite to the point where you are not allowed to know what exists, but it will get there eventually if the conservatives stay in power. They will keep passing NEW laws every so often that are stricter and stricter.
It says at the censorship site that they are also working on publications so it won't just be video that is illegal. Doujinshi and ecchi/hentai manga will also be going down the drain. Since individual pictures from ecchi manga/doujins are derived from those publications, I assume that having "partial amounts" of banned substances is also illegal. So individual pictures might get you into trouble even if they aren't from any ecchi manga/anime/doujin/HCG because the police will think it came from there.
I wonder what this means for hentai light novels and games based on them? Those are prolly going to be illegal to possess or view too.
Conservatives mandating morality! Are they going to monitor your downloading hentai torrent items from sites like bakabt?
MAY 2011 List of Decisions:
http://www.censorship.govt.nz/DDA/Pages/Screens/DDA/List-of-Decisions-May-2011.pdfI like how the webpage is titled "Welcome to the New Zealand Censorship Database". The idea of being welcomed to censorship strikes me as a horrible joke of sorts.
Here's a doujin that would fail to pass thru the conservative morality check....
