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On February 15th, mangaka Watashiya Kaworu had a quarrel with another mangaka Yuki Homura ("Sakitama ~Sakuya Den~") on twitter over the sexual expression of manga. Yuki tweeted that one of his acquainted bookstore clerks said he cannot put Comic High! magazine in the store since it has sexual expressions. Yuki complained that one ecchi manga series can bring disadvantages to all the other manga serialized in the same magazine.
Watashiya asked Yuki if the "ecchi manga" Yuki was talking about was Kodomo no Jikan. (Note: Both Yuki and Watashiya have been serializing manga in Comic High! magazine.) Yuki didn't specify the title in question but he told Watashiya it's better to keep the expression of manga within the safety zone set by the regulation of Tokyo government. Watashiya got angry and said she had been making a great effort not to violate the rule. Yuki said he didn't mean to interfere with the creation of Watashiya but he insisted he had a right to make a complaint.

Source: Togetter of the conversation

Why not complain to the government for making such a ridiculous law.

Calm the fuck down it's just drawings

Amen

Sounds like a bad storyline idea for Bakuman :v

Being ecchi mangaka is suffering.

Twitter drama truly is the universal tie that bonds all people.

If the editors of Comic High! believe that sexual content (to whatever degree) is appropriate for their magazine, that's that. Is Yuki doesn't like that, I'm not sure he can do much beyond switch magazines. Either way, spare us the pleas for self-censorship.There's enough of that in the world as it is.

hmmmm i realy havent seen this bill effect anythinng if anything to love ru darkness has surpassed all limitations 10 fold and is still going

Except no, it's not. Perhaps you didn't read the starting post well enough, but this is clearly about more than just drawings. It's an argument that basically states the sexual expression(used here to simulate Yuki Homura's voice) of a manga can alter how people look at other manga in same magazine. It is an essential argument that can be expanded to other mediums like music, television, and the like. A example of the term "one bad apple can spoil the bunch."

I'm going to root for the author of Kidomo no Jikan because I actually really enjoyed that Anime! :D

Except that Kodomo no Jikan is by far the most popular manga currently in that magazine, so if anything its helping the magazine. Not that its competition is fierce...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_High

lol all of this just brings attention to the manga in question....

I think neither I nor Homura was trying to say that series like Kodomo No Jikan need to be cancelled. It's not even an allusion that should come to mind.

Lol this is actually funny :D

Just as planned?

Damn these twitter fights are stupid.

For you maybe, but for them it's what brings food to their tables...

You got that right. And this is come from a hentai mangaka who just begin his 1st normal manga ever.

That's right people. It seems this way to me:

_ Yuuki Homura-sensei is hentai mangaka: http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=4999

_ One day, he decide to start a normal manga, may be for a change, may be just for fun. But when his work come to Comic High, seem like it's no match for many others there, INCLUDING Kodomo no Jikan.

_ Then how to make my work more appeal? Simple, start a fight with author of the one which sell the most in the same magazine. And what reason is better than stick with the sh*t we all know about? That way, people might (or might not) be become aware of his manga.

There are many reason let me to that conclusion:

1. First off, nobody SAY ANYTHING about that whole crap-we-all-know-what-it-is anymore. Since when? Since the time the man in question win his 4th election, and that's final. Somewhere, here and there, some people might mention about this, but at a whole, nothing change (except for 6 ALREADY COMPLETED mangas)

2. Even with or with that law, Kodomo no Jikan is pretty intense & touch a sensitive topic: lolicon. So even with the old regulating system, they were still able to cancel it, but they didnt. With such a full-of-hole law like the new one, u think they can?

3. Kodomo no Jikan is NOT the only one in the Borderline H line in Comic High. Many other are: Oniichan Control, Oniichan no Koto, Chuu-braa!!!.... Yet no one say anything, except for him? Because if we talk about sexual expression, many other titles, I believe, will not lose to KnJ in term of ecchiness. Especially with Oniichan no Koto, which might be on the same level with Kissxsis or To Love ru Darkness

4. It sound so stupid about his friend's store. His store is not the only one in Japan, many other still put it on the shelves, and it is not? Even now I can easily find both Comic High & Kodomo no Jikan on Amazon Japan (we all know how scardy-cat this one is) and book for it. If that man is so scare like that, fair enough. It's just mean that his store will drop a bit in sell, since many people look for Comic High just to read KnJ

In the end, I dont see any meaning in this fight, except making people start paying attention in manga Sakitama

sad argument in the first place - should artists really have to censor themselves in the first place? seems like japan might be heading back to where it was pre-world war II (although i hope not) - we're dealing with the same backwards-thinking right-wing types here in the u.s., so we don't have much room to criticize - i really hope this trend can be reversed - seems like every time the world economy hits a bad pocket all the hard-core fascists and communists rear their ugly little heads..........

Butthurt about your manga doing poorly? Make a fuss with a popular one! Also looking at series serialized in Comic High it could as well be any other manga like Onii-chan no Koto which i believe has around the same amount of ecchi content like KnJ does or Girlfriends - when it was serialized and shown actual sex.