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Mangaka Higa Aloha has announced in her official Twitter account that the serialization of "Shirokuma Café" on Monthly Flowers magazine has gone into hiatus for an indefinite period. She disclosed that she has been left out of the TV anime project of "Shirokuma Cafe" and she hasn't received any written contracts regarding the anime. After she notified the editors of the magazine that she would suspend the serialization of the manga, they apologized to her and promised to let her supervise the character designs and the scripts of the anime.

Update
According to the updates on her Twitter, she finally had a meeting with the anime producers and found the anime staff have not done anything wrong. The main reason for the trouble was that the editors of Flowers magazine had been giving approvals to the character designs and the scripts of the anime without the author's permission. She said she thanked the anime staff for making such a high-quality anime but the serialization of the manga will be suspended for the time being.

Source: Higa's Twitter account

I hope they had a good reason for not including her in her own work

Can't believe they went ahead with the anime without the original creator.

That's very low, how do you exclude someone from their own creation?

Wow what the heck how rude to leave her out of the production! Is that even legal?

They just make it better for a live action adaptation. :P

Is that even possible? Create an anime without the original creator's supervision?

That is just disrespectful

i know , but did'nt she react a little too late? i mean the anime is in its 8th episode

Yeah it seems very strange and a little fishy. How does one just not realize that their manga is being made into an anime?

O_O They're not serious are they? Who really doesn't notify the creator that they are turning her comic into a show? It's like asking for an argument or fight about this kinds of stuff.

She was eating cereal and watching some torrented anime when: "Wait... what the fuck?!"

Actually, she was first like, "Well, that's a pretty neat idea."
Then a few hours later: "Wait, what the fuck?"

"What the heck, someone stole my idea!!!!"

Hahaha, perfect. Well we have come to the conclusion that she's slow.

"Hey, I should use that scenario in the next chapter of Shirokuma Cafe!"
Several hours later..
"NOW HOLD UP"

Although it is weird that this is coming so late, it's still kinda weird how the anime was even created in the first place

not even a written contract? wow that just sound so dark

Does she have no TV?
How did the show air for 8 weeks without her noticing anything?

According to her tweets, she had been struggling to have a contact with the anime producers for half a year but her requests had been completely ignored. So she took this radical action.

Does anyone here read the manga? I'm curious, does the anime follow the serialization closely?

(Of course, either way, this is still very disappointing news. Shame shame, Studio Pierrot.)

That's so rude! That's not cool at all.. But there's hidden truth behind everything