China gets "Ultra" sensitive.

[Forkboy]

Prime Minister complains about Japanese cartoon

BEIJING -- Chinese viewers are boycotting Japanese toon "Ultraman" after their Prime Minister Wen Jiabao complained recently that his grandson spent too much time watching the superhero instead of homegrown cartoons.

"I sometimes take care of my grandson," said Wen last month during a visit to Jiangtong Animation in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in central south China. "But he always watches 'Ultraman.' He should watch more Chinese cartoons."

He followed this up with a plea to animators to make interesting cartoons.

"Your work is meaningful. You should play a leading role in bringing Chinese culture to the world ... let Chinese children watch more of their own history and its own country's animation," Wen said.

His comments underscore how much of a concern the underperforming toon industry is to the government of a country with 367 million young people under the age of 15

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118003408.html?categoryId=2523&cs=1

Nice to know they're as concerned about the pressing affairs of state as Bush was. :crazy:

[sakabatou]

1. O NOES!!1111eleventy

:crazy:

[Forkboy]

2. All I know is , had I been deprived of Ultraman I'd be a worse person for it.

China is making a mistake here. :rofl: