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please think more critically

[an4ldestroyer]

Found who?

[an4ldestroyer]

Умоляю помойся

[sofasosofun]

i lowkey do not play about him

[anarthology]

HAPPY PRIDE!

[an4ldestroyer]

Не знаю как лучше

[an4ldestroyer]

Картинки разные бывают

[the-quasar-hero]

*covered in blood with countless foes lying in defeat at my feet* The power of love and friendship wins again :)

[o0kawaii0o]

Decora Himiko! 💗💖💕

[tyrvine]

wow wow wow!

[beaniethepretty]

Happy Birthday, Boss!

eat the cake, tomura.

[skelestonkss]

happy birthday shigaraki!

[demifiendrsa]

New Himiko Toga illustration by Kohei Horikoshi.

Tweet:

It may be a bit late but Happy New Year! Congratulations on the anime's 10th anniversary! Amazing! This is a drawing of Toga-chan in a blood dress that I drew to pass the time.

Illustration:

My Hero Academia anime 10th anniversary Congratulations!!!!!!! Amazing!

[diced-rice]

happy pride heres my fav toga and ochako headcanons

[stale-breadcrumb]

DOOMED YURI FOR THE WIN 🩸🌸

[dabistits]

Statement issued by the plaintiff, taken from the summary here. ("Yamamoto" is another pen name of Kurita's.)

Yamamoto still has not apologized for sexually victimizing the plaintiff.

The suit they’re pursuing is to shed light on Yamamoto’s crimes and prevent such cases of sexual misconduct by teachers from happening again.

They never said they “Cannot forgive Shogakukan” as stated in the title of the Bunshun article, (released March 6th) at the time they told Bunshun they feel “helpless” not that they hate Shogakukan.

Shogakukan directors came to their lawyer’s office and apologized to the victim for their handling of the matter via a phone call on March 6th.

They were able to have a civil conversation with Shogakukan.

They do not want MangaOne to dissolve, nor do they want manga artists associated with the app to suffer. They too enjoy Shogakukan manga and have been encouraged by manga.

They don’t want to see any further flaming of Shogakukan and preemptively state they do not want the Bushun to be criticized either.

Here is a direct link to her full statement in JP. I want to point out an addendum from the law firm at the end of the statement notes that there were multiple victims before her.

Of course there are many/varied reactions, but I'll highlight that many tweets have praised her courage for speaking up, the kindness and dignity of her statement, assuring that the criticism faced by Shogakukan is from their own mishandling, and any decisions made by mangaka and readers are of their own accord to express their protest of sexual assault in the industry, not her fault. Some have expressed concern that this kindness might be exploited for Shogakukan and its supporters to move forward without reflection or change. It's also been pointed out that neither the rapist, the involved editor, nor the Manga ONE editorial department have apologized.

Some tweet reactions under cut:

[dabistits]

The update is that Kazuaki Kurita's victim had an article published where she alleges that knowledge of the concealment of her rapist's identity went as far as Shogakukan's legal department and president's office, meaning it was not just the Manga ONE editorial department that knew. (Source) I'm linking to a summary because I haven't been able to find the full, unpaywalled text.

Shogakukan made a statement that this incident did not involve the whole company. They said they've started a 3rd-party investigation, and AFAIK there haven't been updates since then. (Source, with an English translation and link to the original statement)

From what I've seen, critical reactions are pointing out that either the concealment did reach to Shogakukan's highest levels, OR Shogakukan is so clueless that they weren't aware one of their departments was scrubbing the record of a child rapist.

A lot of readers are now choosing not to support Shogakukan as a whole, rather than just their Manga ONE wing. For reference, Shogakukan publishes titles like Mob Psycho, Frieren, Detective Conan, The Apothecary Diaries (version illustrated by Minoji Kurata), How Do We Relationship, Eizouken, Takahashi Rumiko's works (Inuyasha, Yashahime, Ranma, Mao, etc.). These authors/series are not involved, this is just to point out Shogakukan is a pretty big publisher with some pretty popular series out right now. It's worth keeping tabs on.

[dabistits]

i love cancel culture i don't think there is any creative endeavor that exists in the world that is worth platforming abusers. i say this with the full awareness of how much good and enjoyable art there is made by evil* people. i don't think my nor anyone's entertainment is worth the tradeoff of resources, reach and social approval won by an abuser who gets published.

i'm also not saying this under the impression that this is some kind of moral asceticism would fix abuse, i'm saying this because there are apparently many many people out there who can't conceive of their entertainment being less important than reducing the paths and resources for an abuser to continue to cause harm.