This was a long overdue write-up.
https://gizmodo.com/the-anime-industry-needs-to-stop-trying-to-make-rurouni-kenshin-a-thing-again-2000561648?utm_source=gizmodo.com&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=share
https://gizmodo.com/the-anime-industry-needs-to-stop-trying-to-make-rurouni-kenshin-a-thing-again-2000561648?utm_source=gizmodo.com&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=share
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Then there's also the artists/bands who also contributed to the opening and ending themes, like ????
Anyway, if we have to cancel this where is the line? Most media have disgustingly awful people working behind the scenes. Most just don't get caught until decades later
Then the allegations came out and I immediately went "Nope, throwing this away forever. The author is HORRIFIC." The end.
Your cousin Steven would be proud
Glad we sorted that out.
I remember it having a huge presence at ANYC 2023, and just being grossed out by the audacity of Aniplex pushing it that hard.
But come on. This guy is a pedophile! He used his Kenshin money to do pedo stuff!
It's so easy. We can just NOT buy or watch these things.
Anyway, thank you for writing this.
Seriously though I completely get it. I can attempt to compartmentalize, but the reality is that fuck gets money & we need ethical consumerism now more than ever
(Jello's still a douchebag).
From executives influencing editors, editors influencing mangaka, and mangaka influencing their young assistants. It breeds this vicious cycle that needs to be broken.
And while I can't remember all the names of those who wrote a fucking welcome back card to him, the fact the creator of Trigun was listed burned in my head as "Oh I wanted to watch that. Never mind."
As mentioned in your article, only Viz had the right idea in wiping their hands clean of the sequel.
https://bsky.app/profile/bittersnurr.bsky.social/post/3lhua4oayws2h
And that so many of his industry contemporaries supported him not facing consequences
Younger generations of anime watchers must know of Watsuki's sins. Those who grew up reading his work, myself included, left Kenshin in the past.
But hell no should Watsuki feel welcome worldwide, and out of his isolated bubble, despite whatever industry pull he may have.
All this new anime coming out and they can't let got of a pedo's work from the 90s?