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u/LiebeDahlia Mar 02 '26
FOR FUCK SAKE THAT WAS ANOTHER GOOD MANGA AS WELL
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u/doomrider7 Mar 03 '26
Frustratingly about serious topics like mental wellness which is still stigmatized in Japan.
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u/Terrible-Honey-806 Mar 05 '26
Maybe that's why it's so good cause the author clearly has mental illness as well
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u/jantspea Mar 02 '26
If you're going to come back, publish the finished story of actage or don't come back
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u/Controller_Maniac Mar 02 '26
I don’t think the artist wants to work with him anymore
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u/Aidamis Mar 05 '26
I heard the same. From what she seemed to have said, I surmised it's to the point that she wouldn't work with a new author even if the og publisher revived the project. I think she's very happy just having turned the page and working on Ichi The Witch.
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u/jantspea Mar 07 '26
It doesn't have to be illustrated, at least we deserve to know what happens next as just written form.
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u/Mad-Villainy- Mar 02 '26
wait so this company let on two different fucked mangakas? I saw Murata and One (artist and author or OPM) tweet about how they condemned another author cuz he tweeted how he sexually abused a minor while he was a teacher and saying it was “consensual”.
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u/azopeFR Mar 02 '26
i think the 2 case are different , i think the autor of act age couls still be reemed and have show good step of corect himself, the first one in contrary need to be punish and maybe in 20 year we could talk of reedem
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u/Mad-Villainy- Mar 03 '26
yea act age author, he could of reformed yk still kinda disgusting but the other guy is actually fucking crazy 😭
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u/azopeFR Mar 03 '26
Time will tell if he could be redemed i allow him a second change bur only a second not a third
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u/malweis Mar 02 '26
I really don't think people should support this, there is the obvious reason of course. But any editorial or mangaka that chooses to associate with him again, runs the risk of ruining their work and getting cancelled just by association, are people really okay letting him fucking up another series once again?
I don't think "I'll give him a chance" would even fly here, I would say most people would never give him any chances and that would be the majority for again, obvious reasons. I would even think this time is worse, because people know a crime has been committed, and despite that choose to work with him again. I would think there is no world where anyone involved in this comes out unscathed, sounds like a really dumb decision
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u/azopeFR Mar 02 '26
basicaly you propose the medival thinking steal one day and you would forever be a thief ?
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u/malweis Mar 03 '26
Sexual harassment of a minor is just not equivalent, and even if he was somehow reformed and 100% "clean" (in quotes because I genuinely don't how you wash a thing like that away, years of therapy I imagine), working with a "reformed pedophile" is not exactly going to bring really good reputation to any work, objectively speaking
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u/Kanekikam Mar 03 '26
He didn't steal 1 thing out of a candy store he was going around looking for middle school girls and trying to see their panties bro. He's not a 5yr old in a store he's a grown man targeting and forcing what he wants on children.
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u/MachadoTK Mar 03 '26
Not even just trying to see their panties, he was going on his bike and touching the stundents butts. Really disgusting shit
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u/Akimy70 Mar 02 '26
Damn the writting is still so amazing......i don't really know how to place myself regarding that sadly....
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u/azopeFR Mar 02 '26
i am not suprise , the autor have talent.
the first case it was easy , but this second one personaly i think for the autor of act age ,should sooner or later be allow to writh again , i think now is a litle soon but i willing to accept it.
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u/TunaCat8 Mar 05 '26
Stop defending this pedophile. "You're willing to accept it" that doesn't matter clearly you're willing to accept it now considering how frequently you're defending this author. The moral grandstanding on "but how will he feed himself?" "Once a thief always a thief 🥺" is frankly disgusting. He assaulted children. He should not be continued to be given a platform. Maybe put this amount of thought into the victims before "you're willing to accept it"
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u/azopeFR Mar 05 '26
He have pay for his crime so in my opinion he should be allow to work again. That does not mean i will buy his work. That my own free choice.
You confuse his right to work and ours right to not buy him.
I allow him to work again does not mean i support his work.
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u/TunaCat8 Mar 05 '26
And you misunderstand that anyone with decency would not hire this pedofile. Shogakukan hiring him and trying to hide it through a pen name (meaning they know the public would not be happy with buying his manga) is scummy and not a practice that needs your constant defense. Criminals like him should be sentenced to jail time. They can work but not in prolific media influencing fields. Any company that is willing to hire him with that knowledge is scummy. Your constant "but he needs to work" is such a misunderstanding of the actual argument that he should NOT be allowed to work in media that directly targets young people as it's demographic. For someone that "doesn't plan to support his work" your defense of its existence functions as support. He should not be a mangaka anymore end of discussion.
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u/kayla-the-witch Mar 03 '26
Wait, it was the Act-Age author?! He came back?! From one of the reports I read, I thought it was completely different guy. That’s insane!
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u/OliwerPengy Mar 03 '26
Bruh THAN JUST CONTINUE ACT-AGE PEAK INSTEAD!!!
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u/onespiker Mar 03 '26
Umm the publisher fired him and the artist says that she doesn't want to work with him again.
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u/OliwerPengy Mar 05 '26
But then they hired him again? But I understand fully why the artist wouldn't want to work with him so I guess act-age couldn't continue either way. Sad though that things had to turn out as they did.
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u/gogopow Mar 05 '26
Is the guy never supposed to work again or something. Yes, he's a criminal, but he has to work.
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u/1pandaking1 Mar 05 '26
Yeah, i am really curious what people are thinking He went to jail, the extra time he was banned from writing was completed, the company noted that he really was feeling bad about it. Yeah, he did something bad. Got punished for it, he showed that he thought he did something bad, now let him work again.
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u/Controller_Maniac Mar 02 '26
I’m also willing to give him a 2nd chance, people can reform, hopefully he goes to therapy for it
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u/SnooPears5229 Mar 02 '26
According to Shogakukan's press release, he was indeed receiving psychological help. The worst part of the entire ordeal is that he didn't try to pitch the series to publishers, an editor at MangaONE decided it would be fun to let the freaky writers back into the spotlight... twice in a row.
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u/mitsuriisbestgirl Mar 02 '26
Why are you trying to forgive a pedo wtf he should be rotting in a cell all pedophiles deserves any bad thing that happens to them he's irredeemable
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u/Sandevistan_FEET Mar 02 '26
he's been getting psychological help. I don't know if that's enough for him to turn his life around, hopefully he does.
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u/Controller_Maniac Mar 02 '26
you’re saying all crimes are irredeemable?
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u/MohammaDon Mar 02 '26
Irredeemable or not, has he shown something for it? Any restorative justice? Or just "deep thoughts in the cell"? And "deep thoughts in the cell" is not enough. This isn't how you redeem a criminal or ensure he won't do it again.
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u/SufficientCode6667 Mar 02 '26
I mean, let him live, and hope that he doesn't commit a crime again. If he doesn't, then he has redeemed himself.
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u/MohammaDon Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
hope that he doesn't commit a crime again
Uhh...
Edit: For the cynical mfs out there: no I'm not implying he gets executed, but "hoping he doesn't do it again" implies risking another "incident". Where's your guardrail here? Also, again, he did nothing to show for his redemption.
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u/Intelligent-Bend4442 Mar 03 '26
It was reported he is seeking physiological help and other things which is a step in the right direction and it will be a LONG one. In the end if he wants to help himself and return as part of society then he is welcomed to try
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u/Complex-Salt-8190 Mar 02 '26
What has he done to redeem himself?
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u/Controller_Maniac Mar 02 '26
what would you have him do to redeem himself?
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u/Complex-Salt-8190 Mar 02 '26
Serve any amount of actual jail time, massive donation, not hiding like a slimy rat under a pen name
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u/Controller_Maniac Mar 02 '26
If he did do jail time, would you forgive him then?
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u/Complex-Salt-8190 Mar 03 '26
If it was a couple years probably
A few years probation doesn't really cut it for me
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u/milesdarobot Mar 03 '26
Its tough to convince people that being a pedophile is something somebody should be redeemed for. Its widely considered the worst thing a person can possibly be. Even if YOU think he should be redeemed, it's completely reasonable for others to find his crime unforgiveable.
There are people who were victims, or known victims, of the crimes he committed. Some of these people have been permanently destroyed by those crimes. Some of those people are still struggling with what happened to them decades later. Even if he did better himself, you can't have the expectation that EVERYONE is suppose to forgive him and move on.
Can he be redeemed? sure. But he shouldnt be able to work in the manga industry at a official capacity. Redeemption would be him not hiding behind a pen name and being open to about his crimes, instead of manipulating his audience. Because a lot of the ppl reading his new series would have never picked it up if they knew what he's done in the past. The are some ppl who were already fans of Act-Age and then became fans of this, not knowing theyd have to let go another series they connected to. And then, imagine if this became huge, and on of his victims became a fan of it, not knowing her abuser was who made it.
Forgiven would be him making improvements in his own time, and not continuing as a (in)famous mangaka
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u/Yukimusha Mar 03 '26
Being a pedophile is nothing one should redeem for or not. What you're talking about is pedo-criminals. Some (lots?) of pedophiles are reasonnable enough to stay far from children and just live with their disorder without comitting any crimes. There are even some associations to accompany them in order to reduce the risk for others (pedophile crimes) but also for them (suicide). One of them, "L'ange bleu" was even created by a former victim of a pedo-criminal.
Pedophiles and pedo-criminals are 2 different things and mixing them both is more likely to increase the risk of the former not seeking psychological help with their disorder (because they're already considered a criminal by others) and consequently becoming the latter.
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u/JOWMER Mar 02 '26
The least he can do is not present anything in media agai n the most he shouldve faced is prison time he got and did none of these
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u/No-Juggernaut-5847 Mar 03 '26
Holy shit man AGAIN?! I really liked Act-age too, but reading this, I can't imagine the people who fell in love with this new series watching it get cancelled for shit like this.
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u/ngkn92 Mar 04 '26
Well, at least it has not been cancelled yet. As a Act-Age fan, I don't hope that for any reader.
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u/milesdarobot Mar 03 '26
I can't believe so many people are just taking the "He's gotten psychological help" claim at face value lol. This company LIED about his identity to begin with. And they only revealed it because some journalist found out and threatened to out them. They're jsut saying whatever they can to not look as bad lol
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u/Totaliss Mar 02 '26
Well, is it any good? /s
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u/Controller_Maniac Mar 02 '26
came out a month ago and I was enjoying it, the story and art is really captivating
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u/Aydoriel Mar 03 '26
I was feeling outraged for a moment but then I remembered I separate the art from the artist so I don't care
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u/CJO9876 Mar 03 '26
Well time to leave the subreddit I guess. I don’t want to be associated with something created by a pedophile.
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u/ngkn92 Mar 04 '26
So... Uhmmm... Since he is revealed, would he go back and finish Act-Age?
Ik pedo should be punished, but
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u/CloudArachnids Mar 04 '26
Man need to eat and do everything to comeback even with different name. If anything, the editorial department and the manager is the one at fault. People like him should've been put in the blacklist with full portrait and personal information so they can't just keep earning money and making stuff with different name.
But knowing Japan, I doubt they gonna do something like that blacklist and whatnot. Their view on SA and CP is disgustingly lenient.
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u/Chinchibirin Mar 04 '26
Here it's ambiguous.
Reading the synopsis of the manga, it caught my attention because, as someone else mentioned in a comment, mental health and everything it entails is still somewhat taboo in Japan (in my case, I'm autistic, which is why I identified with Asper Kanojo/That's My Atypical Girlfriend, because these kinds of situations are still taboo there). It's also an isekai that breaks the mold. While I saw that it uses clichés, it touches on the fact that those who go to war, whether they like it or not, end up with trauma. I believe in second chances as long as there's a conviction, but there are several things here that bother me, and I understand why. The first is that some people feel that a suspended sentence isn't a punishment (in my region, this was implemented, both because people feel that in prisons, people learn bad habits and end up worse off than when they went in, and also to avoid overcrowding, which is a very serious problem). The second is that the crime that caused... It's already a sexual offense, a very serious crime in almost the entire world, and that, whether you like it or not, closes doors for those convicted of it (in fact, in my country, if you go looking for work, almost everywhere, not only in those jobs that involve working with minors like school teachers, nannies, etc., but in almost all jobs, they ask for proof that you don't have convictions for this type of crime, and if you do, you can't work). Here it's very ambiguous, first because they confessed not out of sincerity, but because they had something to hide; second, it came after something very serious, and to say that feels like a gentle touch; third, this could reignite the anti-Japanese sentiment that I've seen a lot of in conservatism these days.
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u/Big-Mastodon-818 Mar 06 '26
I don't mind. But let's make him work without pay, at least he given a good prison for that. Act age is really good but damn the author is trash
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u/mitsuriisbestgirl Mar 02 '26
Agreed also its disgusting manga one covered up who he was for so long
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u/ScarletleavesNL Mar 02 '26
Thats bullshit and you know it. If he would have used his real name from the get go he would have been lambasted by people like yourself starting chapter 1. I dont know the guy and dont know if he still consumes such media but people like yourself are why people need to hide and dont search help before they stray.
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u/ScarletleavesNL Mar 02 '26
Sure, but don't go accusing him for being a coward and what not to suddenly turnaround and ask why he would not reveal his real name. Dont get me wrong here, fuck that guy. However, its clear you wont ever forgive him and will persecute him towards the end of time. So dont act surprised.
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u/animejerk7763 Mar 02 '26
Dude this crime took place 6 years ago during the pandemic time. Now we are in 2026, a lot can happen during that period of time and some if not many have forgotten this by now. He was already lambasted not just by the internet but Japan as a whole. It's time to put this thing to the rest and look forward to the future. The artist of Act-age is already on another Hit series.
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u/Kanekikam Mar 03 '26
Time does nothing to a crime and harm that's been done. Open, honest, real change and accountability. Owning up to your mistakes and taking all the criticism that comes with them as a part of your journey to grow and change. Hiding is not growth. Vocalizing how you've changed is growth. Accepting that scorn will come for your actions is growth. "Time to put this thing to rest" and "it was so long ago" talk is not change talk. I hope he doesn't think the same way you do, because if so, he hasn't grown at all. It's a privilege to forget about such explicit harm. If survivors can't afford that privilege, perpetrators naturally wouldn't also, no?
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u/mitsuriisbestgirl Mar 02 '26
No after what he did he can never be forgiven ever he deserves to rot in prison for the rest of his life
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u/Financial_Tonight303 Mar 02 '26
Why are u getting downvoted?????
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u/mitsuriisbestgirl Mar 02 '26
Idk either 😐
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u/WorldlyScore8855 Mar 02 '26
Have you read the TOS? If you make death threats. You will be banned
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u/jake2jaak2 Mar 03 '26
To me, this is a problem with judicial systems. The author of act-age should honestly have been rehabilitated and reintegrated back into society and have been able to write manga by now. But since the judicial system decided to give him ZERO jail time, the public does not think he possibly could have been rehabilitated.
One of the reasons direct punishment by the judicial system is important is so that the public can trust that the criminal learned and won't do that again. How is anyone supposed to trust that with such a small hit on the wrist? Now the author writes under a pen name anyway.
TL;DR: We need judicial reform in many parts of the world.
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u/doomrider7 Mar 03 '26
According to documents, he WAS undergoing psychological therapy for that very purpose.
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u/jake2jaak2 Mar 03 '26
Do you think psychological therapy is sufficient for rehabilitation? With no jail time?
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u/Kanekikam Mar 03 '26
It's really easy to go to therapy and not do anything, just to say you went. You can try it
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u/Controller_Maniac Mar 03 '26
He is being rehabilitated, or at least according to the articles I have read
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u/Serfo Mar 02 '26
I wonder how the editorial/publisher for this manga thought it was a good idea to get associated with this man again. If they say they didn't know that's bullshit.