If you can read Japanese, the actual interview quoted in the Japanese source can be found at: http://builder.japan.zdnet.com/sp/epub2010/story/0,3800103623,2041

If you can read Japanese, the actual interview quoted in the Japanese source can be found at: http://builder.japan.zdnet.com/sp/epub2010/story/0,3800103623,20412980-2,00.htm http://builder.japan.zdnet.com/sp/epub2010/story/0,380010362... Here's the line in question, translated (note he's talking about _iPhone application_, not the iPad): Hagino: "Of all Kodansha's application to Voyager to be made into an iPhone application, about 30% are rejected by Apple. There are series that was accepted until vol.4, but we can't release vol.5 and on. Not only violence, but blood depiction are also considered brutal by Apple. 'Hatarakiman' (series about female editor) was recently rejected because of a massage scene. There's no series with office lady as a main character that has no bathing scene, but we're not allowed to show that too because there's breast depiction." This one is interesting: Hagino: "This is another story, but anything related to Apple is also rejected. Two books called "The Company That Invented an iPhone" and "The Man That Made an iPod" are also recently rejected. The reason for that was they disallow merchandising anything related to Apple employee. Then how about Microsoft? (Laughs)."