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EmeraldSaucer
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Really sad that Syundei has to come forward and say something as obvious as "depiction does not equal endorsement", especially when it's paired with her saying she will purposefully limit what she expresses in her work from this point on
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tuxedo-melvin
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2026 11:31 pm |
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I haven't read the manga but I have to wonder why this series specifically got all the hate given it doesn't seem that vulgar at all. I'm used to seeing BL get criticized and hated on by people for being problematic and exploitative but none of those BL anime I've seen even a fraction of this hate. Is it just because people went into it expected a wholesome BL and were surprised by it and just got really angry at seeing certain elements encroaching on their wholesome series and they had a kneejerk reaction? Or are people just crazier now in 2026 than back in 2018 when stuff like Dakaichi was airing.
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Sinxi and heylog
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 12:12 am |
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| tuxedo-melvin wrote: | | I haven't read the manga but I have to wonder why this series specifically got all the hate given it doesn't seem that vulgar at all. I'm used to seeing BL get criticized and hated on by people for being problematic and exploitative but none of those BL anime I've seen even a fraction of this hate. Is it just because people went into it expected a wholesome BL and were surprised by it and just got really angry at seeing certain elements encroaching on their wholesome series and they had a kneejerk reaction? Or are people just crazier now in 2026 than back in 2018 when stuff like Dakaichi was airing. |
Yeah, im confused as well, other BL anime that have come out 2020+ did not get this much hate (the hate did come from a minority though) and also what's with BL and BL works in general that seem to get some sort of backlash, yuri works dont get it
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WANNFH
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 12:53 am |
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| tuxedo-melvin wrote: | | Or are people just crazier now in 2026 than back in 2018 when stuff like Dakaichi was airing. |
Yes - or anything, it just came with exponential growth of anime fanbase in general and getting BL titles more accessible through licensing on the West, which made it more visible - but it also got with the worst part of getting of the clot of some very toxic people who is very new to BL, but barely can distinguish fiction from reality or have a deeper understanding of differences of Eastern culture aspects - and being very vocal in social media to just straight up harass the authors if their vision not align.
Heck, if that people were there at time of classic '00 BL, which was dominated by the stuff with the age-gap titles like But, I'm Your Teacher or Junjou Romantica - that probably made them explode as well.
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Sinxi and heylog
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 1:12 am |
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| WANNFH wrote: | | tuxedo-melvin wrote: | | Or are people just crazier now in 2026 than back in 2018 when stuff like Dakaichi was airing. |
Yes - or anything, it just came with exponential growth of anime fanbase in general and getting BL titles more accessible through licensing on the West, which made it more visible - but it also got with the worst part of getting of the clot of some very toxic people who is very new to BL, but barely can distinguish fiction from reality or have a deeper understanding of differences of Eastern culture aspects - and being very vocal in social media to just straight up harass the authors if their vision not align.
Heck, if that people were there at time of classic '00 BL, which was dominated by the stuff with the age-gap titles like Junjou Romantica - that probably made them explode as well. |
Honestly, the people i did see that were mad at the author were bl fans (not really ewer bl fans as well), of course that doesn't mean everybody that harassed the author were bl fans, but still there were comments from bl fans, which is not really shocking.
Its honestly not that shocking, i remember black butler had this type of issue, even back then
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Aerdra
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 2:15 am |
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It's sad that Syundei is likely to self-censor future works. I don't follow Nakamura-kun or any of this author's other works, but it's a big blow to freedom of expression.
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SinisterOracle
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 5:15 am |
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| Quote: | | Syundei added that they requested the Go For It, Nakamura-kun!! production team to present Hirose and Otogiri's relationship as student and teacher, avoid depictions that “sexually exploit female students or female characters,” and refrain from depicting certain obscene scenes from the manga series and to “adjust them to expressions suitable for all audiences.” |
It’s a shame that Syundei decided to self censor and change the subject to an all ages version instead of keeping it in line with the manga.
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Kadmos1
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 6:01 am |
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| tuxedo-melvin wrote: | | I haven't read the manga but I have to wonder why this series specifically got all the hate given it doesn't seem that vulgar at all. I'm used to seeing BL get criticized and hated on by people for being problematic and exploitative but none of those BL anime I've seen even a fraction of this hate. Is it just because people went into it expected a wholesome BL and were surprised by it and just got really angry at seeing certain elements encroaching on their wholesome series and they had a kneejerk reaction? Or are people just crazier now in 2026 than back in 2018 when stuff like Dakaichi was airing. |
How ever many members from either side of the political spectrum certainly have the "Cry foul when I want to"-type mindsets down well.
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justsomeaccount
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 6:08 am |
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In regards to the post about the anime toning down content, the japanese message is not saying that the author asked that they do it from now on, but that she asked from before, and that the team respected her desires, they're clarifying that she was the one who asked it in the first place (remember that part of the polemic also came, according to the snapshots of some of the harassment in the source news from the ANN article, from people who compared the manga and anime differences and attributed the mangas "problematic" content to her as if she didn't have any part when those parts in the anime were cut). It's not talking about the present or future, in fact that grammar reserves it for when she talks about not representing teacher student relationships in her next work.
I clarify it because many people are misinterpreting this; they're not explicitly saying the anime will be more censored from now on (though maybe they'll do given the clarification of the contact exchange thing, but at any rate if they do that would be secretly), the message is about who asked for the toning down from the beginning.
If I'm wrong and I'm the one misinterpreting something, please verify it with some professional japanese translator to make sure (at the end I'm only a N2/N3 so even if I'm pretty sure about this I could be making a mistake, but in case you only used an automatic translation for that message (which I don't want to assume that you did, maybe you used a human professional one, but it's too weird this translation choice for me) definitely don't trust it).
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Wizardizar
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 6:18 am |
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| Aerdra wrote: | | It's sad that Syundei is likely to self-censor future works. I don't follow Nakamura-kun or any of this author's other works, but it's a big blow to freedom of expression. |
| Quote: | | While I, as the series creator, have previously published several BL works featuring pairings with significant age gaps or adult-minor relationships such as teacher-student pairings, in light of the recent surge in horrific crimes committed by adults against minors, I will no longer use such themes in future works. |
That's not self-censorship, that's someone who changed their mind and is no longer comfortable with some of the stuff they wrote in the past. People are allowed to change. It's not like they should be forced to write age gap romances.
Anyways, my take is that there is a lot of homophobia online, so yeah, the BL show is gonna get a lot more unfairly scrutinized than, let's say, shit like Yowayowa Sensei .
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VORTIA
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 7:02 am |
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| Wizardizar wrote: | | That's not self-censorship, that's someone who changed their mind and is no longer comfortable with some of the stuff they wrote in the past. People are allowed to change. It's not like they should be forced to write age gap romances.
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Seems unlikely to be a genuine change of heart when this statent is clearly related to her being bullied off Twitter days ago for this exact content. Deeply saddening to see her apologize to people who had no business treating her that way in the first place.
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WANNFH
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 9:23 am |
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| Wizardizar wrote: | | That's not self-censorship, that's someone who changed their mind and is no longer comfortable with some of the stuff they wrote in the past. People are allowed to change. It's not like they should be forced to write age gap romances. |
"Changed the mind" basically few days right after getting harassed and bullied on social media which forced them to close the accounts and reply through the publisher instead?
Ain't no way that's called changing, that's enforcing the values to the author.
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ATastySub
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 9:50 am |
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The statement literally says that the author requested the changes before the anime began production. I get that reading is secondary to culture war nonsense but it’s pretty brazen to pretend linear time matters when clarifying but somehow not when the very same statement contradicts your claims of “self-censorship.”
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justsomeaccount
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 10:21 am |
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That's the thing, the way it's redacted in this article it can easily be interpreted as "from now on", it doesn't say "before the anime began", particularly when the previous part was addressing something from the latest chapter. Now, as I said earlier when I talked about the original japanese message, I'm pretty sure it's before the anime was emitted, and the declaration is stating that the reason those parts were toned down in the anime to begin with was because of the author; but written like that (and machine translations also translated like the author just asked right now, even though I'm sure it's wrong) it makes it easy for it to be misinterpreted.
So if that's the case and the intention was what we said, I ask the ANN team to please edit this to make it clear, otherwise we are getting misunderstandings like this all the time, and wouldn't be ethical to leave them be. Or confirm ANN team's interpretation at least.
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tintor2
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 11:23 am |
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This reminds me of that slavery controversy in Mushoku Tensei but I don't think comedies in general should have the authors express themselves like this. Even Jujutsu Kaisen had a chapter where a teen Gojo got his number from a teacher.[/list]
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