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(Also about your anime suggestions: thank you for that but I'm not interested in both of them. Also school year is still ongoing and I tend to distance myself from anime until summer vacation)

(confession: when I first saw your post I attempted to write a response but it went astray so I just forgot about it till now, sorry)

By the way,

> it's surprised that no one in the anime community is looked down
Not really, there's still some hate and discrimination towards the anime community, albeit not really extreme. And I think one of the reason for that is because either TV channels broadcast anime with questionable content, or some cosplayers appear at conventions in suggestive poses => the news and media picking up on that => people hating on them, citing "thuần phong mỹ tục" ("cultural value" in English I think)

> By the way what do you think of it? How was the censorship level in localized stuff they published and is the editing of content the same as Japanese censoring?
Since some point in the past (2014/2015), I noticed an explosion in the number of anime and anime-related IP being licensed for use in Vietnam. So I think this is a sign that the government/ has finally backed down and eased up on the restrictions *a lot*, to the point that I'm taken aback by that.

For example, now I can buy a volume of Date A Live that comes with this suggestive phone dock (https://www.fahasa.com/date-a-live-tap-1-qua-tang-gia-do-dien-thoai-doc-quyen-so-luong-co-han.html). Or I can buy a volume of Prison School, which you already know is an ecchi manga. Or I can finally get a change to see popular anime movies on the big screen. Your Name, A Silent Voice, SAO Ordinal Scale, Hirune Hime, I've seen them all. And there aren't any censorship as far as I know. For example, in Your Name, there's the scene of Mitsuha in her underwear. That scene should've been blurred/entirely cut out per the old restrictions but it didn't happen.

Do you plan to watch Action Heroine Cheer Fruits?

Have you watched Matoi yet?

Hi.
I've read your post on Reddit about anime popularity in your country. I heard Animax Asia used to air there but got retired from operators in 2013 due to government content restrictions under request by the Prime Minister, leaving Vietnam to be the only SEA country not to have it anymore. For the uninitiated, Animax Asia is a Singapore-based Southeast Asian counterpart of an anime juggernaut channel of the same name (that spawned several local feeds around the world) that aired plenty of stuff in both dubbed (local) and subbed versions (Track record in the following: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=2004). The censorship used in anime aired on Animax Asia is decided by Singaporean censorship boards and has a tendency to sometimes cut scenes or slow down with static images to fit the regional standards, which I find pretty weird since the level of censorship on Animax fits Vietnamese government etiquette.

The funny thing is that while anime is usually regarded as being made for kids and shouldn't have inappropriate content, it's surprised that no one in the anime community is looked down upon since it's regarded as a hobby. On the other hand, BiBi (children's channel that aired Oreimo) and HTV3 airs anime but its overall catalog is lacking and consists of mainstream stuff. But now that Vietnam is starting to ease up the content restrictions by legalizing the showing of nudity and violence in films and lewd content on music videos, there's a change. If only there's a government change, Animax could be bought back.

By the way what do you think of it? How was the censorship level in localized stuff they published and is the editing of content the same as Japanese censoring?