Recently I ordered a set of Berserk manga from online bookstore based in Singapore. Yesterday I just found out that the books have been "detained by Home Ministry" with no hope of ever getting the book back, I called the customer service and they also said cannot do anything the books will not be returned to them. Luckily I received a full refund...if not....

Just writing here to let people know that Berserk manga is banned in Malaysia. Does anyone know where I can find a full list of ALL banned books in Malaysia??? Isn't it idiotic when I can read it illegally online for free but when I want to pay real money for a real book with the government getting a cut from taxes, I can't???

Malaysia boleh, semalam boleh, hari ini boleh, esok pun boleh...

Never heard of such ban before. Let's hope this won't spread into a witch hunt.

wonder if i can bring mein kampf in

oh lol. though i help fren order dengeki hime pass the custom. rofl

how come home ministry detained it? if it was customs, they fall under finance ministry. unless if it was confiscated by airport police which falls under the home ministry

Mein Kampf already been sold here.

really? i never thought they would.

Wow, Berserk manga? First time I heard about a manga ban. This is quite a surprise.

lol

OMG OMG OMG! I ordered 6 vols from Taiwan!! and they NOT YET ARRIVED!!

Very strange news indeed.

Perhaps this was a counter-revenge of Upin & Ipin being banned from Japan recently.

Berserk was a nice anime/ manga...mayb too many violence and not suitable for them?? Manga also wan ban...later vegetables also ban liao...

den y gantz no ban? y junji ito's horror comics no ban? YYYYYYYYY??????? -_____________________-

sometimes is no ban it the gov ppl want money sengaja take one.

This wat i heard from my book store tauke

When he order one set of bok from taiwan... when past through Gov sure got few vol MIA than u need pay the officer duit Kopi only there give u back
i am like WTF ==

but I order the books with few other clothing and misc stuff.. Not sure how they will packed it.. Still waiting for response purchaser.. worry, worry, worry..

hahahaha oh you

Ya LOL. Gantz is being sold in Borders, Kino etc. And books like Parasyte too. Maybe they are keeping it for themselves or maybe it came with *ahem-ahem* stuff as bonus?

Yea it was detained at Subang Airport and the supplier said it was Home Ministry...

Hey keep us posted if you do get your copies okay...cross finger xx


But the Berserk anime is not banned rite, I remember seeing shops selling them, not sure ori or not...somemore I have bought American comics that r juz as violent and full of nudity too...I juz hoping that they can come out clear guideline wat is ban n wat is not ban and oso publish the full list of books banned.


how do we go about errr...buying coffee for those fine folks so I can get the comics??

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Added on March 8, 2010, 8:58 pmP.S. I going to order and send to my relative in Singapore then I collect from them...ban oso got use meh?

This post has been edited by mingxhin: Mar 8 2010, 08:58 PM

just wonderin, on what grounds they were banned for?

Not enough fanservice.

Contacted my purchaser.. this is how she reply me.. dunno i shud continue to worry or not..


what if they mistaken it as bomb??? hahaha, such a solid box-like shape wrapped with clothes.

yeah, i will update when the things.. manage to seludup in.. (and i tot finally i manage to get hardcopies of Berserk, mana tau tag along the ppl that like to drink kopi-o).. sigh

hopefully these "drinkers" wont surf lyn and saw this thread

P/S: Berserk anime is SOFTCORE, I guess that's y they din ban the anime. BUT, the storyline ended AWFULLY, stopped at beginning of the climax story! If u read the manga first then only watch the anime, it will off ur syiokness, TOTALLY. To those who have watch the anime but didn't read the manga, I recommend you to READ it.

This post has been edited by Kayc Low: Mar 9 2010, 12:02 AM

There. Good explanation. It's probably not in any list. They just look at the cover, see all the naked people ... another issue with a different cover might get through. So the answer to the original question. No books or any stuff with naked people.

And TS is lucky. They just took only your book. If this was America, and someone thinks the girls appear to be under 18. You might be in jail for child-porn, even though those are hand drawn images, not photos of real people.

BTW: the earlier questions about mein kampf. I don't think our govt cares about it. It's das kapital that's more likely to be in the banned list.

This post has been edited by dkk: Mar 9 2010, 08:11 AM

https://epq.kdn.gov.my/e-pq/index.php?mod=public&opt=pl

Interestingly, there are a lot of books in the Malay language that are banned, and a small number of Japanese books.

It is not uncommon for the Home Ministry to detain foreign publications. Even simple things like the international version of the IHT from Hong Kong are intercepted and (amongst other things) pictures containing protests in Afghanistan/Iraq have their banners blacked out (as if there are many people in this country that can read Arabic/Pashtoon-Darwi).

Its not the end, but more likely than not you wouldn't get it back.

now i remember that home ministry got one agency that controls the publication. maybe got malaysians who reported about the gore contents in this manga.

Why the hell would they do that for?

You tell me. I have never understood the rationale for doing so, but then again this is bolehland.

Try to reduce your non-anime thoughts to the minimum or I move this thread over RWI.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 14 2017, 09:28 PM

dude, if u read carefully, this thread mentioned the word BANNED? U wont find the books in malaysia shops.

steel ball run issue 16 is also banned in malaysia. Sigh.

So if in this case the item that is being confiscate by the minister of home affairs do you have any way of seeking to reclaim the item or challenge on the basis of what grounds do they detain the so called item ???? If so ask them to produce proper papers on the detention of that item.

This post has been edited by Laguna: Mar 11 2010, 06:30 PM

even if it's not banned, they still have reasons for confiscate. Contains too much violences and x scenes (same kind of genre with Gantz, except that Gantz = futuristic, Berserk = medievil). Kinda hard, what wonders me is, Y BANNED ONLY BERSERK

This post has been edited by Kayc Low: Mar 11 2010, 06:58 PM

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 14 2017, 09:29 PM

Which shopping center?? I want to get it! The reason I said it's not available because I've been searching for this title from everywhere in Klang Valley and I can't find it. I guess I have slip this place.

Pls pm me the location.. Pls pls pls.. TQTQTQ

Fyi, chinese version = RM30

Update for my Taiwan package: 2 more weeks of delivery before it reach here =/



This post has been edited by Kayc Low: Mar 22 2010, 01:15 PM

berserk manga is awesome.
berserk anime is the sucks.


anyway, i think they "banned" it because it has religious stuff in it?

Our gov sure have lots of surprises for people both international and local alike. Reminds me of the anime figure shop raids some time ago.

Betoi!

Hmm.. there are a lot of religious related mangas and I don't see any of them banned.

I wonder if they actually read them first before deciding it's banned. Or did they just go through the covers. Or flip through the pages.

Or maybe the guy checking it actually liked it so much he took your order for himself.

If it's customs, they DO check EVERY pages.

Man.. I need to pray everyday now..

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Added on March 24, 2010, 11:13 pmwoohoo! i got my books! *reeelieveeed*

This post has been edited by Kayc Low: Mar 24 2010, 11:13 PM

if courier maybe not

I'm pretty sure I've seen Berserk sold here. You just got pretty unlucky.

is there other method of delivery other than courier?

Kayc Low,
Glad to hear your book got through

BTW where u order from n how much?

i bought vol 11 to 15 + new volume 43!!
[90 * 5 + 20 / 8.0] + International Airmail Postage court later = Rm 58.80

There are extra charges for the shipment from Taiwan to here but it's based on the weight of the package, so it wasn't total up at 1st. I just pm u the extra charges and who i bought from..

i hope no ministry spy here.. hahaha

This post has been edited by Kayc Low: Mar 26 2010, 09:38 PM

You are so screwed heh heh heh

am I reading the right thing here?

hor? mau i belanja minum kopi kah? lol

Really? i bought yaoi manga from amazon and etc but they didn't detained it. if they did check every pages why didn't they took it? i think i was lucky though i usually quite nervous when i want to order yaoi but i still take a risk.

Since I couldn't find any appropriate forum, i thought might as well post back here...again same thing happened...comic I ordered got detained by KDN...the thing that makes me really angry is that the same comic book is sold here right now in Kinokuniya KLCC!

I am wondering WTF IS KDN DOING?!?!?!?

Anyone know where I can lodge an official complaint? The comic is Ex Machina Deluxe Book Two...and funny thing is Ex Machina Deluxe Book Three was not detained...

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Added on June 8, 2010, 9:03 pmOkay finally I found the site to lodge complaint to KDN.

So I type in all my details and after that I can't click on the bloody SUBMIT button...I thought maybe it's because the website don't support Mozilla Firefox..oh well

Okay, so I tried to open in IE8...SUBMIT button also not working.

Okay, so I tried to open in Google Chrome...SUBMIT button also not working...

ALL 3 MAJOR INTERNET BROWSERS ALSO NOT WORKING!!!!! Is this what they call people first, performance now??!?!

If it is supposed to work in IE7, then chances are it will work in IE8..as I have already upgraded my version what can I do? Can anyone help to test the site using IE7, Safari, Opera etc.

I really cannot believe it...

This post has been edited by mingxhin: Jun 8 2010, 09:03 PM

Not all of kino's book is checked, especially if they are ordered in bulk. Thus it's your bad luck mate