RIO DE JANEIRO -- A Chilean court in Santiago ruled on Tuesday that the popular Japanese soccer-themed animation "Captain Tsubasa," aired by Chilean national broadcaster TVN, does not include a depiction of violence against women.
The ruling followed a dispute brought by TVN, which was fined by a screening body in February 2020 over a scene from the series. The screening body argued that the scene in which Jun Misugi, a rival of main character Tsubasa Ozora, slapped the cheek of a female manager was a depiction of violence against women. The body fined TVN 5.11 million pesos (about 730,000 yen).
In the scene broadcast by TVN in July 2019, Misugi slapped the manager when he found out that she had disclosed Misugi's chronic heart disease to Tsubasa and had asked Tsubasa to lose the match on purpose.
TVN brought the dispute to the court, claiming that the decision by the screening body was unfair and the fine should be annulled.
The court dismissed the fine.
According to the ruling, the chief justice said, "It [Captain Tsubasa] is not about violence but is rather a story about the evolution of children immersed in soccer."
The judge also added that "[Misugi's] aggression doesn't come from the fact that the manager is a woman but because she leaked his secrets and private matters."
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