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2018-02-28, 19:03 | Link #22 |
Princess or Plunderer?
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Not my point. There's more to this than a lenient way to deal with sexual predators. It's most likely a cultural deal, in that the legal system in Japan was made to be considerable harsher for drug possession than pedophilia and child prostitution.
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2018-03-02, 16:36 | Link #24 |
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A shame about this guy. I respected him a lot not because of the series but because of how communicative he was to the readers, often expressing his stress at work, the secret behind characters' creation, how he let his assistants work on the series (Eichiro Oda was one of them!), etc.
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2018-03-25, 20:52 | Link #26 |
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Okay, Watsuki may be on the level of a pedophile, but I see all these people saying “RK is ruined for me” and I think, “Seriously?” RK has no hint or suggestion of underage sexualism unless you try to count Yahiko’s crush. It is completely possible to read RK or any of Watsuki’s works and not think of child pornography. It’s the same thing as separating reality from fiction, just reversed.
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2018-03-26, 00:55 | Link #27 | |
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2018-03-27, 03:28 | Link #28 |
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It’s possible. You don’t think he can get money for that from somewhere else?
Besides, I’m sure there are plenty of RK and Busou Renkin fans thinking the same as me, so money will come from there. And if his RK continuation picks back up, like that other mangaka who wrote a great-selling manga after getting nabbed for something similar, he’ll get the money from there too. So why make ourselves suffer needlessly? Especially if it’s just to enjoy manga we’ve already bought before this ever happened? I’m not going to let this incident ruin the enjoyment of the childhood favorite manga already sitting on my bookshelf. And obviously there are plenty of other RK fans who’ve already bought the whole original manga.
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2018-03-27, 07:52 | Link #29 | |
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2018-03-27, 19:26 | Link #30 | |
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2018-03-27, 20:39 | Link #31 |
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The issue is known as separation between art and artist. There is probably no answer that is completely right or wrong. You can argue that art is detached from the person, something beyond reason so to say. On the other hand there is the argument that art is part of what makes the person/artist. It's impossible for us to enjoy art as a blank slate without the background into context, we simply don't work that way.
You have to find the answer that suits you best. Personally if I had RK volumes I wouldn't throw them away. But I'd also stop buying them, not because RK suddenly became a bad story but because the money I spend will in some shape or form land in the pockets of these people. And what would that industry be? |
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2018-03-28, 06:36 | Link #35 | ||
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Of course, buying books is moot if you've already bought his books long before this incident ever became known, like me. Which was my original point; not buying the books, but enjoying the stories. (which many people most likely own since RK is 20+ years old already) Therefor, I nor anyone else is supporting any degenerative behavior by reading and enjoying books we bought long before we ever knew about this. And now you're flat-out accusing me of closing my eyes and making a not-so-veiled accusation that I actually am aiding child pornography. Suffice it to say, I won't be further engaging in this conversation that's now circling the drain. I have better uses for my time. Though we all know people who continue to read RK despite this incident aren't "hypothetical." Simple common sense says there are plenty of people who think the same, whether you accept that or not.
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2018-03-28, 14:05 | Link #37 | |
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- Buy Manga - Publisher Pays pedo - Pedo buys child porn - Child Porn Producer Victimize Child. what is so difficult to understand that new purchase of this guys work will go toward victimizing more children?
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2018-03-29, 01:49 | Link #39 |
Princess or Plunderer?
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This attempt to connect the craft, the craftsman and the craftsman's wrongdoings kinda makes me wonder if Mikhail Kalashnikov considers himself a murderer and associate in terrorist activity for designing the AK47. Or whether those who manufacture firearms find themselves thinking about their gun being used to kill others.
But then again, J. Robert Oppenheimer did say that "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" as the one who designed the weapon that would claim so many lives in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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2018-03-29, 02:00 | Link #40 |
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They're pretty different situations. Practically opposite, in fact. In one case, craft and crime are unrelated, but the craftsman is a criminal. In the other, craft is a tool to commit crimes, and the criminals are on the consumer side.
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