paying a $1,500 fine seems like a pretty light sentence for having a hundred DVDs of CSAM
He said he was sorry so it’s okay.
it cost him more than $1,500 to buy the accursed DVDs!!1In fact he’s very, very sorry and pinkie promised to stop being a pedo. It’s all good now.
I had to look this one up and had the same thought! Talk about a slap on the wrist.
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.
early as part 3 tbh
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.
Part three is when he was helping take care of his new born child. Explains some of the Death 13 and Seth stuff. The orangutan shit is awful though.
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Yusuke Murata
I’m disappointed but wholly unsurprised. Horny Tatsumaki pictures predicted this.
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.
There is also Lily (Fubuki’s underling) that is getting weirdly sexualized despite being 14. Volume 20 cover art to be specific.
She’s a Murata OC too, so there’s all the more blame
At least the Berserk guy didn’t sign
Who wants to tell this poster first?
At least the yugioh guy didn’t sign
THE YU GI OH GUY IS DEAD TOO???
If it’s any consolation, he died trying to save people from a rip current.
Why would Mako Tsunami do this
That is actually some consolation. I just reread Yu Gi Oh! actually
goddammit greg
neferarious gregarious
I don’t quite understand the significance. Can someone explain?
It’s an event celebrating a convicted sex offender. He had enough DVD’s of CSAM that the authorities thought he was a dealer.
Ew.
He paid a fine of ¥200,000 (<$1500usd) as his only punishment, too
So CSAM is basically legal in Japan?
I don’t remember the specifics of Watsuki’s case, but it was material that might have been legal to purchase at some time or something else awful like that.Edit: Found this article from back when he was charged.
spoiler
In Japan, the possession of child pornography became totally illegal in July 2015. Under the law, people found with explicit photos or video of real children can be imprisoned for up to one year and fined up to 1 million yen (about 8,900 US dollars).
But if you get caught doing drugs ever in Japan, your career is fucking over.
There’s a refreshing amount of decent replies on that Twitter post. I’m honestly a bit shocked lmao.
Takayuki Yamaguchi (Shigurui)
Motherfucker you have time to defend pedophiles but you won’t finish your fucking series or get it translated into English?
Hasn’t Shigurui been finished for a long time? It’s just the one fight and its backstory, not the whole original novel.
I dunno. I know season 2 of the anime never happened because at the time the manga wasn’t done and they didn’t want to make changes. But that was over a decade ago and there still isn’t an official English translation.
At least I don’t see Toyotaro here
FUCK YEAH KAGURABACHI IS SO GOOD. The Author of Sakamoto Days is also not on here. LET’S FUCKING GOOOOO. NO TATSUKI FUJIMOTO - MAKES TOTAL SENSE.
I shocked ODA is signing that letter. Jesus.
Nightow
Come on man…
