
The anime industry has completely run out of ideas of its own and is being forced to plunder manga at an ever increasing pace to make up for it, runs a recent critique.
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A mangaka has been arrested for having paid sex with a schoolgirl.
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Shoujo mangaka Mayu Shinjo, or Mayu-tan, recently obtained a sniper rifle, using it to take aim at her critics.
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Black Lagoon mangaka Rei Hiroe has told manga pirates in no uncertain terms that they are thieving swine and that “I hope these guys pirating manga get pancreatic cancer soon.”
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Battle Angel Alita – Last Order has been forced out of publication due to Shueisha’s objection to such unacceptably discriminatory language as “psycho” and “crazy” – its mangaka’s refusal to bow before publisher pressure has resulted in publication being cancelled.
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The mangaka responsible for Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) has excoriated fans who persist in expressing their love for her works to her whilst blithely admitting to her face never actually paying for them, calling them “thieves” and “morally degraded” whilst exhorting fans to support the works they supposedly love.
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The mangaka responsible for illustrating the US military’s recent moe manga (visible here) has been receiving defamatory mail.
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A ranking of the top 10 mangaka to have changed the history of manga reveals some distinctly uncontroversial choices.
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Blockbuster mangaka Shūhō Satō was so disgusted by the exploitation he endured at the hands of big publishers that he exposed them in a series of damaging online revelations, and then started his own online manga distribution service in competition.
He lays bare the exploitative publishing industry straitjacket forced on mangaka in a candid interview, reproduced below.
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In a practically unheard of example of anime franchise development, mecha series Jinki, originally a general manga which was then adapted to an anime, is to be adapted into an adult game for the PC with character designs provided by the original author.
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Berserk mangaka Kentaro Miura has attracted much attention with a manga taking aim at the efforts to censor manga in Tokyo – fans however take more notice of the appearance of characters from IdolMaster, K-ON!, Strike Witches and others, as well as Comic LO itself…
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Taiwanese mass media have been blaming Japanese ero-manga for inspiring a recent school school sex scandal in Poland, mentioning the mangaka responsible for the above illustration, Kisaragi Gunma, by name.
Meanwhile the Japanese and Chinese media have yet to report that the original story is widely considered to be a fabrication.
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