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[–] miz@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

paying a $1,500 fine seems like a pretty light sentence for having a hundred DVDs of CSAM

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He said he was sorry so it's okay.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

peppino-ha it cost him more than $1,500 to buy the accursed DVDs!!1

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In fact he's very, very sorry and pinkie promised to stop being a pedo. It's all good now.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

I had to look this one up and had the same thought! Talk about a slap on the wrist.

[–] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hirohiko Araki

Goddammit man anti-valentine-action hesitation-2

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] foxontherocks@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] shuzuko@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yusuke Murata

I'm disappointed but wholly unsurprised. Horny Tatsumaki pictures predicted this.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is also Lily (Fubuki's underling) that is getting weirdly sexualized despite being 14. Volume 20 cover art to be specific.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

She's a Murata OC too, so there's all the more blame

[–] foxontherocks@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

At least the Berserk guy didn't sign

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Who wants to tell this poster first? guts-pain

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least the yugioh guy didn’t sign

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

THE YU GI OH GUY IS DEAD TOO???

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If it’s any consolation, he died trying to save people from a rip current.

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Why would Mako Tsunami do this

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago
[–] gramxi@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

neferarious gregarious

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't quite understand the significance. Can someone explain?

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's an event celebrating a convicted sex offender. He had enough DVD's of CSAM that the authorities thought he was a dealer.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He paid a fine of ¥200,000 (<$1500usd) as his only punishment, too japan-cool

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So CSAM is basically legal in Japan?

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~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.

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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. japan-cool

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

There's a refreshing amount of decent replies on that Twitter post. I'm honestly a bit shocked lmao.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Takayuki Yamaguchi (Shigurui)

Motherfucker you have time to defend pedophiles but you won't finish your fucking series or get it translated into English?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hasn't Shigurui been finished for a long time? It's just the one fight and its backstory, not the whole original novel.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

At least I don't see Toyotaro here

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

~~Under no circumstances do we have to hand it to the fascist creator of demon slayer.~~

My mistake, I completely shortcircuited and mistook 'demon' for 'goblin'. I don't think demon slayer is too fash, at least for anime standards.

[–] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

is the demon slayer author fascist for real?

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Even if they aren't consciously fash, the text is extremely fascist. Anyone who creates work without examining those undertones isn't really trustworthy.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Extremely" is an exaggeration, just looking at the text

spoilerI need to assume that you're basically accusing it of doing a Goblin Slayer, and I likewise need to insist that this is a very lazy reading. It is made very explicit that being a demon is basically a transmissible human health condition caused by medical experimentation. No one has been or seemingly could be born a demon (the only apparent exception are those sub-sentient fish creatures the jar demon spawns, but they also might just be an extension of him since demons are many times shown to have these sorts of connections to each other or separate parts of themselves), they weren't born out of anything but humanity, and the condition can even be reversed medically, though that discovery is of course late-coming. On top of all that, it is readily shown that demons can be good people who don't do murder, and indeed ~4 are shown to choose not murdering, it's just that the people Muzan picks out are ones who are more likely to give in to the desire to eat people. There are many things separating this conceptually from some sicko racial allegory like Goblin Slayer is.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Oh no I brainfarted. I mistook demon for goblin lol. Yeah demon slayer is a bit fash but not as bad as goblin slayer.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I shocked ODA is signing that letter. Jesus.

[–] VChill@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Nightow

Come on man...

[–] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Bachibros we're winning

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