Japanese Government Collaborates With Tokyo Revengers To Promote New Age Code In The Country

The Cupboard Workplace of the Japanese authorities introduced of their press launch on Friday, Jan 7, 2022, that they’ve teamed up with the anime, Tokyo Revengers, to advertise the partial revision of the Japanese Civil Code. The modification will drop the “grownup age” from 20 to 18-years-old. It would come into impact on April 1, 2022.

The collaboration produced a TV industrial and 5 WEB movies with the tagline, “New adults, make your individual future.”

The change made to the Civil Code is to respect the precise to self-determination of younger individuals and “expects the promotion of lively social participation.”

The federal government publicity marketing campaign promoted the change within the “grownup age” to unfold consciousness concerning the voting age of the Public Places of work Election Act. The 19-year-olds are inspired to take part in essential nationwide political choices.

Despite the fact that the grownup age is decreased to 18, the age at which individuals will be capable of drink and smoke, together with the age restrict for public playing (horse racing, bicycle racing, auto racing, motorboat racing) stays 20.

Moreover, new voice traces had been recorded for the venture. A number of the tie-ins will seem within the Weekly Shonen Soar journal.

Dengeki On-line, a Japanese information portal, defined that 20 years outdated has been the age of majority in Japan because the Meiji restoration in 1879.

Ken Wakui‘s Tokyo Revengers manga debuted in 2017 and has already bought over 40 million copies. It gained the forty fourth Kodansha Manga Award for shonen in 2020. The primary season of the anime aired in April 2021, and led to September 2021. It was additionally licensed exterior of Asia by Crunchyroll.

Supply: Japanese Authorities Public relation Web site through Dengeki On-line