Mangaka Nobuhiro Watsuki Charged and New &#039;Rurouni Kenshi&#039; Manga Series to Enter Hiatus

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Note that the author confessed it, though there was a detail that nobody really wanted to see aside from the confession.

I'm not someone that can talk a lot, because I only know Kenshin based on the conversations etc, so I really never got into it yet. This news doesn't stop me from checking the series out still (since there was a drastic overreaction over the news).

Still can understand somewhat the feeling since if I were them then yeah, I would probably feel sad about it.

Nov 21, 2017 4:43 AM

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Like others have said, I really think you should change the title, but it’s up to you.

Nov 21, 2017 4:44 AM

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Surprised it's not cancelled outright to be honest. You'd think they want to be as far away from the guy as possible right now but maybe I'm going by western standards with that thought. He's admitted to the charges as well, not like it's an allegation such as those going around in Hollywood.

On his crime though (since it hasn't been as detailed here as elsewhere) it is disgusting, manga / drawings of fictional young girls / boys is one thing you could debate but this? Nope, he should take the full force of the law and be punished for it. Just because something may have been legal at one point does not mean it is now. At least he has no excuses for it.

Will it stop me from reading his works at some point? No, Rurouni Kenshin looks fab and I do have the live action trilogy somewhere in my house. I can still enjoy one of Rolf Harris' animal shows he used to do, I could still listen to a Michael Jackson song and enjoy it and this is no different.

I think you can separate the artist from the person absolutely unless there is a link between the crime and their works being influenced or affected by it which does not seem to be the case here.

Nov 21, 2017 4:45 AM

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HaXXspetten said:
"Suspect?" I thought he straight-up admitted to liking 12-14-ish year old girls when the police raided his office and found CP DVDs in there. Or at least that's what I got from the ANN article earlier

Anyway I'm not a Rurouni Kenshin fan but of course developments like this are never fun to see

That is, the author of Kenshin is pedophile?

Nov 21, 2017 4:48 AM

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Oh Japan and its dark secrets, the author should have kept his fetish by just fapping to those doujinshi... honestly where the fuck did he get those DvD

Nov 21, 2017 4:49 AM

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Wait what...? And just when I really love the new series too... This is far too awful for my heart T^T

I'm starting to get embarrassed by my own forum signature line.. XD

Nov 21, 2017 4:52 AM

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RobertBobert said:

HaXXspetten said:
"Suspect?" I thought he straight-up admitted to liking 12-14-ish year old girls when the police raided his office and found CP DVDs in there. Or at least that's what I got from the ANN article earlier

Anyway I'm not a Rurouni Kenshin fan but of course developments like this are never fun to see

That is, the author of Kenshin is pedophile?

I guess you can say that since he admitted it in one of the confession (which was the detail that I personally believe it wasn't needed much, he could have just said "I like girls / or whatever in the low age as mine" or something like that, not specifics.

Nov 21, 2017 4:56 AM

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Wasshio said:

RobertBobert said:

That is, the author of Kenshin is pedophile?

I guess you can say that since he admitted it in one of the confession (which was the detail that I personally believe it wasn't needed much, he could have just said "I like girls / or whatever in the low age as mine" or something like that, not specifics.

Oh, I do not even know what to say. Now I'm not a special fan of the series, but in my childhood it was one of the most popular anime in Russia. If I'm not mistaken, in localization it was called Samurai X.

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Oh Japan and its dark secrets, the author should have kept his fetish by just fapping to those doujinshi... honestly where the fuck did he get those DvD

Judging by the fact that lolicon vn like Shoujo Ramune quite legally receive hentai OVA, in Japan it is not so difficult.

Nov 21, 2017 4:59 AM

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RobertBobert said:

Judging by the fact that lolicon vn like Shoujo Ramune quite legally receive hentai OVA, in Japan it is not so difficult.

I'm talking about real underage girls performing pornography, and the only source I know is the Dark Web, but DVD and CD with real girls is definitely connected to black market in japan... now I think that's what the police wants to know.

Nov 21, 2017 5:00 AM

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RobertBobert said:

Wasshio said:

I guess you can say that since he admitted it in one of the confession (which was the detail that I personally believe it wasn't needed much, he could have just said "I like girls / or whatever in the low age as mine" or something like that, not specifics.

Oh, I do not even know what to say. Now I'm not a special fan of the series, but in my childhood it was one of the most popular anime in Russia. If I'm not mistaken, in localization it was called Samurai X.

youseiki said:
Oh Japan and its dark secrets, the author should have kept his fetish by just fapping to those doujinshi... honestly where the fuck did he get those DvD

Judging by the fact that lolicon vn like Shoujo Ramune quite legally receive hentai OVA, in Japan it is not so difficult.

I do understand the feeling since I've heard nothing but praise for Ruronin Kenshin from people that I know of, so this news is rather shocking for a lot of people. It's really that known in here as well, somewhat I believe.

I didn't even knew about the series much aside from the praise it got honestly. Never really got into it but will do sometime in the future.

Nov 21, 2017 5:01 AM

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youseiki said:

RobertBobert said:

Judging by the fact that lolicon vn like Shoujo Ramune quite legally receive hentai OVA, in Japan it is not so difficult.

I'm talking about real underage girls performing pornography, and the only source I know is the Dark Web, but DVD and CD with real girls is definitely connected to black market in japan... now I think that's what the police wants to know.

There's also the fact when he got them because remember, this type of stuff were legal until 2014 where they started to enforce this law afterwards. As far as I'm getting at.

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Wasshio said:

There's also the fact when he got them because remember, this type of stuff were legal until 2014 where they started to enforce this law afterwards. As far as I'm getting at.

Oh, I'm new to this Japanese Law letting underage pornography market before 2014... are you fucking kidding me??? They have a law of permitting child pornography can be sold openly?

Nov 21, 2017 5:07 AM

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youseiki said:

Wasshio said:

There's also the fact when he got them because remember, this type of stuff were legal until 2014 where they started to enforce this law afterwards. As far as I'm getting at.

Oh, I'm new to this Japanese Law letting underage pornography market before 2014... are you fucking kidding me??? They have a law of permitting child pornography can be sold openly?

I'm not too informed in context but I guess so? Or more or less owning child pornography until that point. I need to look for more context of the law itself but I remembered few links about it which they enforced that rule on that year.

You can kind of get why I said "There's also the fact when he got them" because he probably got them before the law was enforced.

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youseiki said:

RobertBobert said:

Judging by the fact that lolicon vn like Shoujo Ramune quite legally receive hentai OVA, in Japan it is not so difficult.

I'm talking about real underage girls performing pornography, and the only source I know is the Dark Web, but DVD and CD with real girls is definitely connected to black market in japan... now I think that's what the police wants to know.

Oh, you're talking about a real CP? Well, I think he had some connections, since he was a rich man with a lot of experience in publishing.

Nov 21, 2017 5:26 AM

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RobertBobert said:

Oh, you're talking about a real CP? Well, I think he had some connections, since he was a rich man with a lot of experience in publishing.

Yep, and I think those girls are Chinese, since they have a lot of kidnappings there, especially Japan Black Market has established itself throughout South East Asia and East Asia. Japan Kidnapping rate is low as 2 chances in 1000000 people.

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youseiki said:

Wasshio said:

There's also the fact when he got them because remember, this type of stuff were legal until 2014 where they started to enforce this law afterwards. As far as I'm getting at.

Oh, I'm new to this Japanese Law letting underage pornography market before 2014... are you fucking kidding me??? They have a law of permitting child pornography can be sold openly?

No that is not correct. Production of child porn and distribution has been illegal for a while. They made possession illegal as well recently.

Nov 21, 2017 5:29 AM

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The same kind of situation (slightly different) occurred with Shimabukuro, the Toriko mangaka, he had to cancel the series he was working on. And after a couple of years of channeling his inner Togashi, he started writing Toriko. (he had some manga called ring which was unsuccessful, and cancelled, but we dont talk about that.

Hopefully, Nobuhiro Watsuki doesn't have to do the same thing.

Nov 21, 2017 5:33 AM

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No that is not correct. Production of child porn and distribution has been illegal for a while. They made possession illegal as well recently.

Oh OK, nice law they got there

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As disgusted and ashamed as I am of Nobuhiro Watsuki [repulsed and so sad, I've always said that he was one of my favorites. now... not at all. never again], but I won't be throwing out my kenshin media, or deleting my kenshin fanfiction. [something that a LOT of people seem to be doing on tumblr. I had to unfollow like five people. it made me too sad and frustrated to see them talk about throwing all of it out.]

Unless he comes right out and says that he's been a pedo for his entire life and that he was really thinking of a lot of underaged girls when he was drawing RK [doubt it], I see no reason to tarnish the series or throw it away.

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By definition, everything is retro since by the time you realize something has happened it's already in the past.

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AngelicTotoro said:
As disgusted and ashamed as I am of Nobuhiro Watsuki [repulsed and so sad, I've always said that he was one of my favorites. now... not at all. never again], but I won't be throwing out my kenshin media, or deleting my kenshin fanfiction. [something that a LOT of people seem to be doing on tumblr. I had to unfollow like five people. it made me too sad and frustrated to see them talk about throwing all of it out.]

Unless he comes right out and says that he's been a pedo for his entire life and that he was really thinking of a lot of underaged girls when he was drawing RK [doubt it], I see no reason to tarnish the series or throw it away.

No matter what he did, acting like people are not allowed to enjoy a work of art because the writer is a bad person is very stupid.

Nov 21, 2017 5:47 AM

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Considering Japan's age of consent... does that mean the teens are younger than 13? Nooo my childhood got ruined T______T

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illivinni said:
Considering Japan's age of consent... does that mean the teens are younger than 13? Nooo my childhood got ruined T______T

How can a teen be younger than 13? 13 is the first teenage year :/

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youseiki said:

RobertBobert said:

Oh, you're talking about a real CP? Well, I think he had some connections, since he was a rich man with a lot of experience in publishing.

Yep, and I think those girls are Chinese, since they have a lot of kidnappings there, especially Japan Black Market has established itself throughout South East Asia and East Asia. Japan Kidnapping rate is low as 2 chances in 1000000 people.

In any case, he is unlikely to get rid easily, especially given his fame.

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HaXXspetten said:

illivinni said:
Considering Japan's age of consent... does that mean the teens are younger than 13? Nooo my childhood got ruined T______T

How can a teen be younger than 13? 13 is the first teenage year :/

Japan's age of consent is 13 iirc

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RobertBobert said:

In any case, he is unlikely to get rid easily, especially given his fame.

Well the Live Action Movie solidified his reputation and contribution to society.

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illivinni said:

HaXXspetten said:

How can a teen be younger than 13? 13 is the first teenage year :/

Japan's age of consent is 13 iirc

Not really. Basically, 13 is the minimum but almost, if not all, of the Japanese prefectures set the age at 18

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Next up is Made in Abyss' creator, who doesn't even hide his tastes with the content he draws/writes.

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illivinni said:

HaXXspetten said:

How can a teen be younger than 13? 13 is the first teenage year :/

Japan's age of consent is 13 iirc

Not really, see this https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/4tj7wp/debunking_the_myth_that_the_age_of_consent_in/

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Heh? WTF? Just when I just saw Samurai X with a dub of my language. (literally a few minutes ago)
I thought it can't get worse, now it's really got worst for real!
Well, I don't really care, I never watched/read an entire single episode/chapter anyway.

Haters always gonna hate.

Nov 21, 2017 6:26 AM

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illivinni said:

Japan's age of consent is 13 iirc

Not really, see this https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/4tj7wp/debunking_the_myth_that_the_age_of_consent_in/

ah nice, I feel a little bit more relieved

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Wait is there really underage porn X.X lel this world has many things i don't know damm :(

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FREE MY BOY NOBUHIRO!!!! FREE THIS MANGA!!!

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youseiki said:

RobertBobert said:

Oh, you're talking about a real CP? Well, I think he had some connections, since he was a rich man with a lot of experience in publishing.

Yep, and I think those girls are Chinese, since they have a lot of kidnappings there, especially Japan Black Market has established itself throughout South East Asia and East Asia. Japan Kidnapping rate is low as 2 chances in 1000000 people.

Good God, I thought this was happening only in movies and yaoi manga. What the hell is wrong with the world? What is this, 18th century?

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youseiki said:

Yep, and I think those girls are Chinese, since they have a lot of kidnappings there, especially Japan Black Market has established itself throughout South East Asia and East Asia. Japan Kidnapping rate is low as 2 chances in 1000000 people.

Good God, I thought this was happening only in movies and yaoi manga. What the hell is wrong with the world? What is this, 18th century?

This happens even in the countries of the first world, not to mention the poor countries where you and your boyfriend can be executed only because you decided to marry without the permission of your parents, or to "get married" when you were 9-old, that "not to waste time".

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