Shoujo Tsubaki, an anime series created in Japan that depicts such horrifying depictions of emotional and physical abuse, has been banned from its home country.
Most countries, including Japan, have banned an anime film called Shoujo Tsubaki.
According to Anime Dork, Shoujo Tsubaki follows the story of 14-year-old Midori who endures severe emotional and sexual trauma at the hands of deranged circus performers.
This film is an adaptation of Suehiro Maruo’s 1984 manga of the same name, set in Japan.
Shoujo Tsubaki’s Exciting Storyline
Now orphaned and alone, Midori joins a circus where she is emotionally and physically tormented by its members. One particularly memorable scene has Midori witnessing the brutal slaughter of puppies before being raped by its killer. While Midori ultimately escapes the circus, its ending is not particularly happy: Midori falls in love with an adult magician dwarf named Wonder Masamitsu who unfortunately reciprocates her affections.
Director Hiroshi Harada (Doraemon, Folktales From Japan) had difficulty raising funding for his film due to its troubling subject matter. To make ends meet, he had to use personal savings in order to finance it himself; additionally, Harada took on many key staff roles such as Director, Screenwriter, Storyboard Artist and Key Animator himself. With no additional staff onboard, production took five years with Harada personally creating over 5,000 illustrations for the project.
At an interview, Harada discussed his influences, citing Isao Takahata (director of Studio Ghibli’s groundbreaking film Only Yesterday) and Winsor McKay as two animators that particularly moved him.
Growing up with bullying himself in elementary school, Harada focused heavily on it in most of his films; “Just before Midori,” he said, “I made a film about hazing to offer support to children who are subjected to it rather than as some form of personal therapy.” Asked why he chose to focus on physically deformed characters in Shoujo Tsubaki (also mentioned), Harada explained why he chose to feature those deformed individuals in Shoujo Tsubaki; saying it had an impact on him when he first learned of their existence and that this particular aspect “tends to me”.
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