Honestly, though, it’s weird how we’ve gaslit ourselves into thinking piracy is this noble thing and artists enjoy suffering—then complain about generative AI like we didn’t basically open the door for it?

It’s seinen, the merch and anime are aimed at josei readers.

Maybe she did, but, as an artist, her original style didn’t really need improvement—it was unique, quirky, and appealing. Totally fit the tone of the story.

Except animanga was never intended for overseas markets and still isn’t every artists’ goal—partly cuz English-speakers cling to ‘free exposure’ arguments instead of owning up blatant theft and disrespect. Piracy is actually why animanga stayed niche for so long.

Not sure of the timeline, will have to check, but also she had time during the pandemic and probably just leveled up—it’s just kinda odd to see the jump and how josei-canted the merch and the anime were, and how the industry pressures women, and wonder if she was pushed to it or did it on her own.

Yeah, noticed there was censorship on our end but not in the Japanese so that was interesting. Also the anime was a lot lighter and fluffier, the merch more silly and seemingly aimed at shojosei fans. Can imagine that pissed her off to no end as well.

Haha gotcha. Scanlations are tricky because the internet makes it REALLY easy to ignore copyright and not be accountable to the mangaka and their publishing company, but that’s a discussion for another time.

Ah gotcha gotcha. Knew from JPN fans Ashihara-先生’s experience and suicide rattled her. The color director for the studio said she was upset that was wrong too, so not surprised to hear it goes deeper. I’m sure there’s more besides. Kodansha treated her terribly. Hope she gets our supportive letters!

Hey wow welcome back to the Pit of Despair. Mind sharing who you heard about the piracy and publisher censorship being the reasons for Konishi withdrawing from?

Ohhhhh gotcha gotcha yum!

Wait. There are THREE types? I only know ‘regular’ and ‘smoked’ WHAT HAVE I BEEN MISSING???

So excited NEW K ANCRUM BOOKY-WOOK 😋

Cracking up because this post came before yours in my feed bsky.app/profile/bode...

‘she might *LEAVE*’ is what I meant to say (dammit) 😂

Before they fall asleep, he’s surprised when she CRAWLS INTO BED WITH HIM and says SHE COULDN’T SLEEP FOR DAYS WORRYING ABOUT HIM like she might be the first person to actually care after Sumire. So of course he’s devastated she’s freaked out.