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The rest of your post is pretty much "other people do crimes and people don't mind, so I can support this pedophile".

People get so bent up about the pennies in royalties they give to the creator and ignore the dozens of other people who put the time and effort into creating the anime/game. It's their job to make the product be the best it can be and deserve to reap the rewards of that effort.

So think about that before you decide to sail the seven seas or try and boycott. You are hurting many more innocent bystanders.

People get so bent up about the pennies in royalties they give to the creator and ignore the dozens of other people who put the time and effort into creating the anime/game.

- Rowling and Mignogna are not criminals.
- Miller and Watsuki were charged with actual crimes.

I’m still confused why they’re making a rebooted series now after a rather successful live-action movie series that were all genuinely good samurai films. You could have ended the whole thing after The Final hit Netflix and avoided walking into this utterly massive minefield. Is there really a market for this series so soon to the point you willingly bring someone fresh off a conviction to the forefront, especially for something so heinous? This all feels completely unnecessary on so many ends.

And people are really overblowing this 'controversy'. It's non-existent in Japan...I bet even in America most people don't care about it at all as we saw with Hogwarts Legacy's situation making a mountain out of a molehill.

I find issues like these with J. K. Rowling, Ezra Miller, Vic Mignogna, Nobuhiro Nishiwaki, etc... very fascinating from a moral/philosophical standpoint. Beyond the whole separating the artist from their art debate, do criminals deserve fair compensation for their work? What if they've already been charged and reformed? Are we criminals by association if the money we pay to appreciate their work gets appropriated into funding criminal acts? But we didn't specifically pay to enable their criminal behavior. Shouldn't they take full responsibility for what they do with the money that they rightfully earned? Is it our job to play the moral arbiter when it comes to deciding who is worthy of making an honest living? By extension, does this mean that those who accept their money in exchange for food are also enabling their crimes by prolonging their lives?

I don't have a definitive answer to these questions, but I can't help pondering them whenever cases like these pop up (as this kinda hits close to home for personal reasons). Regardless, I'll probably check the series out if I'm able to. Samurai X was one of the few anime I actually watched religiously growing up.