This week's must-read article focuses on manga rating systems. Otaku USA editor Danica Davidson sat down with Kodansha's Ben Applegate for an in-depth comparison between Japanese and North American publishers' approach to content warnings. "There is no industry wide standard for age ratings" here in the US, Applegate notes. "That’s not just in the manga
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