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INTEREST: Man Withdraws Allegations Against Evangelion Voice Actor Daman Mills

Duncan seems pretty adamant that the retracting was his own choice, and not due to any coercion as seen here.

If you haven't been subject to any of the common stereotypes that LGBTQ+ people, then I'm happy for you, and I'm glad you've been living a good life. But you can't say those stereotypes don't exist. If you don't think this is an example of such, your call to make. I won't go into all the different stereotypes that exist about all the different disenfranchised minorities because that's not what we're here to talk about. It doesn't always mean that it's done with malicious intent, but it's a reality.

I don't see how it's such a ridiculous point to make. If anyone has a link to any article where ANN or any other accredited news agency has put out to the public a story of sexual misconduct about the opposite sex without the identity of the alleged victim being revealed, I happy to be proven wrong.

I was skeptical of the allegations to begin with because I saw some serious RED FLAGS in Duncan's original story, and claims seemed to be embellished quite a bit

Even after the alleged victim fully retracted his claims, you say unequivocally without further research that it must be because because of legal intimidation

Even without his retraction, the part about underaged "statutory rape" is out of the question, given that the first alleged incident didn't take place until Duncan was 16, the legal age of consent in Ohio.

Unfortunately this article [about Mills and Duncan] only shows the alleged victim's side of things, and he has chosen what to share. There's enough material in the evidence that he has provided to warrant an article, but it is still one-sided.

Because Mills declined to comment, his side of the story is missing.

Hence why I said "questionable-consent", not r*pe.

I'm not saying Todd should have been blacklisted. I personally won't buy prints/autographs or attend his panels any more, but I'm not gonna boycott a con that invites him either. I'm just using his situation and it's similarities (though, no, they are not a 1:1 parallel) to frame what I expect as to how we may see Daman's play out. Companies like Funimation/BangZoom never officially came out and sad anything on Todd's situation, even if some directors may have privately decided not to cast him in projects they head anymore. And as I said before, since neither's actions occurred at the studio property, or otherwise directly involved them (such as in Vic's scenario, which is why he was blacklisted BEFORE his lawsuit), nor were they criminally charged/arrested (as with Scott), those studios don't have much incentive other than public pressure to issue any sort of statement, so I'm just not holding my breath waiting for one.

(1)Um, did ANN really delete my post, which linked to...

(2)Shame on you, ANN.

(3)What is 'questionable-consent' even supposed to mean anyway? There is either consent or there is not.

(4)... it doesn't look like Mills is ready to or wants to speak about the situation from his point of view, which is of course perfectly fine since it's his personal decision.

(5)But Mills's actions don't need to have occurred in the studio for producers to decide what to do about him.

(6)... it shouldn't be considered precedent-setting.

Tempest wrote:

Unfortunately this article [about Mills and Duncan] only shows the alleged victim's side of things, and he has chosen what to share. There's enough material in the evidence that he has provided to warrant an article, but it is still one-sided. Because Mills declined to comment, his side of the story is missing.

Shame on you, ANN.