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mdo7
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 Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 9:36 am
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OK, it looks like according to Kotaku's Brian Ashcraft. It looks like Attack on Titan's creator has apologized over the hidden sexual innuendo message.
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| Quote: | In the latest issue of Attack on Titan, there is a hidden sex gag. Today, the manga's creator Hajime Isayama apologized on his blog. Apparently, he didn't know about it until after the fact.
The manga editor in charge of Attack on Titan explained via Twitter that an assistant allegedly added the gag without Isayama or the editor's knowledge.
"I take full responsibility," wrote Isayama. "The cause was a lack of awareness of my own manga."
"As a result, I let down the people who were looking forward to this instalment, and I think this is inexcusable," the Attack on Titan creator continued.
"I apologize for this, and from here on out, I will be more aware of my own manga so this doesn't happen again and will concentrate on creating better work." |
So yeah whatever you read on this article, the creator apologize. I'm sending that Kotaku article to ANN via email to make a follow up article on it.
EDIT: just sent the email to ANN about this, hope they make a follow up article for this.
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Mohawk52
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 12:37 pm
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| mdo7 wrote: | OK, it looks like according to Kotaku's Brian Ashcraft. It looks like Attack on Titan's creator has apologized over the hidden sexual innuendo message.
I'll quote:
| Quote: | In the latest issue of Attack on Titan, there is a hidden sex gag. Today, the manga's creator Hajime Isayama apologized on his blog. Apparently, he didn't know about it until after the fact.
The manga editor in charge of Attack on Titan explained via Twitter that an assistant allegedly added the gag without Isayama or the editor's knowledge.
"I take full responsibility," wrote Isayama. "The cause was a lack of awareness of my own manga."
"As a result, I let down the people who were looking forward to this instalment, and I think this is inexcusable," the Attack on Titan creator continued.
"I apologize for this, and from here on out, I will be more aware of my own manga so this doesn't happen again and will concentrate on creating better work." |
So yeah whatever you read on this article, the creator apologize. I'm sending that Kotaku article to ANN via email to make a follow up article on it.
EDIT: just sent the email to ANN about this, hope they make a follow up article for this. |
His editor should be doing the apology too, with a lame excuse like " the assistant done it and I didn't notice" I'd say quit masquerading as an editor then. 
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mdo7
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 1:48 pm
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| Mohawk52 wrote: | His editor should be doing the apology too, with a lame excuse like " the assistant done it and I didn't notice" I'd say quit masquerading as an editor then. |
Well, it's possible the editor will apologize soon anyway.
Oh and looks like ANN did a follow up article.
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Touma
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 2:05 pm
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| Mohawk52 wrote: | His editor should be doing the apology too, with a lame excuse like " the assistant done it and I didn't notice" I'd say quit masquerading as an editor then. |
It definitely is the editor's job to catch things like that. There is one thing that I am curious about, and I am not reading Attack on Titan so I have to ask about it.
Do the characters in the manga read and write Japanese in their world?
If so then the editor should have checked it and those letters should be translated in the English release.
If not then I think that he can be forgiven for not checking what he thought was just some gibberish that was intended to represent some alien language.
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Agent355
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 3:35 pm
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^No, it's supposed to approximate whatever language they speak in the Attack on Titan universe. Considering how many characters have German surnames, it should probably look a little more European than Japanese. It makes a lot of sense that the editor didn't catch it.
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