https://x.com/WSJ_manga/status/1841191312462172216 Bleachcels stay winning
paying a $1,500 fine seems like a pretty light sentence for having a hundred DVDs of CSAM
Fujimoto stays winning
I was a bit upset at first, because I thought the “not on list” one was the bad one.
Refreshing to know some of my favorite artists are good. Maybe less refreshing when they’re outnumbered ten to one.
Maybe less refreshing when they’re outnumbered ten to one.
I’m so angry, this is everyone I used to read til shitty follow-on serieses happened with sole exception of I don’t see Toyotaro’s name on this list. Thank god Toriyama died before this could come to pass, I don’t know how utterly wrathful I’d be if I saw his name crop up here too but it’d be pretty damned close to Old Testament at that point.
I think there’s a certain bunker mentality among artists - be they Hollywood writer/directors or Tokyo manga authors and illustrators - that compel them to show a certain degree of solidarity regardless of how awful the people they’re defending are. And that’s in no small part because the production companies and corporate suits have them under siege, doing insane amounts of work for mediocre pay, in an industry where being a pervert is considered a fringe benefit.
You see it with politicians, too. “They’re all out to get us” combined with “If I don’t get to be a freak, why would I even keep doing this thankless job?” Leads to some perverse social incentives.
Hirohiko Araki
Goddammit man
Did you read any part after 6? The content of 7, 8, and I think 9 in the very first chapter (I forget the age of the character assaulted there) make it obvious that he’s fine with this sort of thing.
That’s fair, there’s pedo stuff in 3 and 4, I was just thinking of the “habit” Araki fell into of depicting eroticized assault of minors, which I don’t think starts until 7.
Yusuke Murata
I’m disappointed but wholly unsurprised. Horny Tatsumaki pictures predicted this.
There is also Lily (Fubuki’s underling) that is getting weirdly sexualized despite being 14. Volume 20 cover art to be specific.
Yeah, I mean, he’s made her a series mascot while her design gets increasingly sexualized to the point that it’s like a step below softcore loli. I really like the series otherwise, but the depictions of Tatsumaki that he goes out of his way to add make me uncomfortable. She’s not like that in the webcomic! She’s closer to being a sassy moe blob.
At least the Berserk guy didn’t sign
If it’s any consolation, he died trying to save people from a rip current.
