Pretty convenient how I managed to get a DDOS update when I was trying to talk about the Galko-chan situation with Kenya Suzuki. But let me reiterate before the Internet times my connection out:
I remember reading Rurouni Kenshin before I found out about Watsuki admitting that he harbored CP.
I remember watching Toriko after I found out that Shimabokuro was caught with hyper factionalized drawings of naked children in his apartment.
Difference was they paid for their acts towards society and both of their respective Shounen works left me entertained over the years. The same thing could be applied with Galko-chan as well, since the mantra still stands: Separate the art from the artist.
We live in a world where there’s more sex trafficking and child abuse scandals that go unnoticed mainly due to this moral grand standing and disingenuous hypocrisy where we are trying to rationalize reasons as to why a mangaka artist from Japan had to hilariously go to a different country to get old erotica that may have been mixed with photographs of naked children from the 80’s, and it’s causing more people online (because they’ll never say this out in public due to social stigmas out in full force) to dictate how anime should be
censored and banned pure to protect the children.
Meanwhile, the article being linked from the news surrounding Suzuki’s
Curb Your Enthusiasm-like predicament had a comments section filled with stuff like this:
These people arguing for the “
red flags were there from the beginning” attitude would be the same ones to like anime where the mangaka artists may/may not have old school drawings of teenage kids doing unadulterated stuff that would send social media users into a state of rage, but they’ll never talk about stuff like that.
Either way, I don’t want to turn this into a
Culture War post. People are still allowed to like Galko-chan while hope that Kenya Suzuki gets the rehabilitation and help that he needs.
It’s not as mutually exclusive as these people online want you to think.
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