Mangaka Nobuhiro Watsuki Charged and New 'Rurouni Kenshi' Manga Series to Enter Hiatus

by tsubasalover
Nov 21, 2017 3:47 AM | 94 Comments

Shueisha has announced that mangaka Nobuhiro Watsuki (born Nobuhiko Nishiwaki) is charged for violating the Child Prostitution and Pornography Law and is currently sending the papers pertaining to the case to the Public Prosecutors Office. The previously announced Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Hokkaido-hen will enter a hiatus as a result. The violation hurts the publisher badly and the mangaka, admitting the charge of having multiple DVDs of displaying nudes of early teens, deeply regrets it.

Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Hokkaido-hen is a new series of Rurouni Kenshin that also received anime adaptations throughout the '90s. The new series has began its serialization in Jump SQ magazine with Kaoru Kurosaki this September.

Source: Jiji.com, Yahoo! Japan News via Otakomu

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Cool story and what not. Outrage and stuff. K.

Feb 27, 2018 4:26 PM by nitrohawk

The painter Caravaggio and the playwright Ben Jonson were both killers. The composer Benjamin Britten and the writers J.D. Sallinger, William Golding, Gustave Flaubert and Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) were allegedly all pedophiles in varying degrees. The writer Virginia Wolf and the poets Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot were allegedly all anti-Semites. I could go on, but I think that's enough to make the point. So what do we do about it? Run to the art galleries, theaters, concert halls and libraries with pitchforks and firebrands? Here's what James Poniewozik of Time Magazine says:

"Accepting [that bad people have made great art] doesn’t mean excusing horrible private behavior. It doesn’t mean giving my money to people I find reprehensible. And it doesn’t mean that creative geniuses are übermenschen beyond the moral laws that govern mere mortals. It just means realizing that ... sometimes great artists are going to be people I really don’t like."

Feb 27, 2018 5:38 AM by Thoguht

He's been charged for two hundred thousands yen fine.
https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2018022700954

Feb 27, 2018 3:50 AM by tsubasalover

As I said in other places, I feel a big pain, because Kenshin is my favourite character since I was a child.

Such a horrible days for fans. :'(

Nov 26, 2017 2:12 AM by removed-user

Kuma said:

HikariJake said:

People with psychological problems can easily have a "nice chat with police, with cookies and tea". It's not hard to feign innocence. Serial killers have got away with it all the time because they let the police into their homes with a smile on their face and promised them that everything is fine, there's nothing shady at all...

I'm not saying that all or even that most lolicon artists are criminals, but you tell me: how can a person who is all right in the head draw little naked girls in erotic scenarios?

"Lot of lolicon H doujin mangaka are female"
So? So you're saying that females can't be fucked up in the head?

nah, my pont that lolican mangaka might have fucked uo mind, but they are not automaticaly criminal. they prefer drawing their imagination than ruinining someone life...

Yeah, I agree with you there. Lol
I defend the right to make and consume lolicon anime/manga/hentai, but I'm not going to pretend that it is normal or anything.

Nov 25, 2017 12:22 PM by removed-user

Soooooo I guess we’ll never get that remake huh :/

Nov 25, 2017 8:53 AM by 84DaysWithout

HikariJake said:

Kuma said:

it's kinda funny when there is case where an lolicon mangaka had to talk with police because some actually wicked minded people get inspired by his manga and actally commiting the crime. he himself has nice chat with police, with cookies and tea...

another interesting note, remember kodomo no jikan? the author is female... infact, lot of lolicon H doujin mangaka also female...

nah, my pont that lolican mangaka might have fucked uo mind, but they are not automaticaly criminal. they prefer drawing their imagination than ruinining someone life...

Nov 24, 2017 3:25 PM by Kuma

Kuma said:

HikariJake said:

You gotta be pretty fucked in the head to draw little children in a sexually explicit manner.

Nov 24, 2017 11:53 AM by removed-user

SuperRed said:

Shuhan said:

I voted for Trump for president so that makes me an alpha because Im supporting an alpha politician.

Sound logic.

If you support someone who is known for wrongdoings you are just as bad as the person committing them. So you might as well be jerking off to kids you pedo.

That doesn't make any sense, buying manga doesn't contribute to child pornography in any way, the fact that he choose to spent his money on illegal stuff isn't my problem.

I'm just going to say: Do not feed any further because the more its said its just gonna make it worse a bit, then agaiiiiiin. Being honest, this is most likely bait.

Nov 24, 2017 3:27 AM by removed-user

Shuhan said:

SuperRed said:

So if I voted for Bernie Sanders for president, does that make me a Jew because I am supporting a Jewish politician?

Retarded logic.

That doesn't make any sense, buying manga doesn't contribute to child pornography in any way, the fact that he choose to spent his money on illegal stuff isn't my problem.

Nov 23, 2017 3:34 PM by SuperRed

SuperRed said:

Shuhan said:
If you support his works, then you are supporting pedophiles which in turn makes you a pedophile.

So if I voted for Bernie Sanders for president, does that make me a Jew because I am supporting a Jewish politician?

Retarded logic.

Nov 23, 2017 3:25 PM by Shuhan

Shuhan said:
If you support his works, then you are supporting pedophiles which in turn makes you a pedophile.

So if I voted for Bernie Sanders for president, does that make me a Jew because I am supporting a Jewish politician?

Retarded logic.

Nov 23, 2017 2:56 PM by SuperRed

If you support his works, then you are supporting pedophiles which in turn makes you a pedophile.

Nov 23, 2017 1:31 PM by Shuhan

Well then, guess that means this scene really was what it looked like O_O

Nov 23, 2017 12:24 AM by Avenger-senpai

Gross. Not gonna disown the series for it though.

Nov 22, 2017 2:46 PM by CatSoul

I haven't gotten into the series yet, but I feel really awful for the fans who looked up to him because no one knew he was fucked in the head. I fully understand the stigma behind pedophilia and that it's sick and wrong and there's a desperate need for treatment, but Watsuki I think was fucked either way because he lives in Japan. So he confessed to it, he always knew he was messed up in the head, but what could he have done? He couldn't tell anyone about it, and even if he did, where was he going to get help? Where could he have gone for therapy/treatment?

He kept it to himself, and it festered into what it's become today, and now he has to suffer the consequences for the rest of his life, but he'll never get the proper treatment he needs. It's just a lose-lose situation for everyone involved.

leosapathy said:
dude this is fucked. I read he'll only get a year in jail, imagine if he did this shit in the U.S.

Only a year? Holy shit, what a slap on a wrist. If it was just because he had possession of it and wasn't a distributor, that's still too lenient.

Nov 22, 2017 11:08 AM by Lil-Bird

Well, since there's proof and he admitted, all there's to do is to wait for him to be judged. That's sad for Kenshin's fans.

Yohimo_asakura said:

Doriana_1986 said:

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?

Dude you probably didnt see whats going on on a deep web. People are being literally sold as fuck slaves one after another. But none is talking about that because its scary and weird.

What you meant is dark web. You use the deepweb every day, even MAL has deep web pages. Your facebook account if you have one has a deepweb part, and so on. There is nothign scary about the deepweb :p.

Nov 22, 2017 4:56 AM by Zefyris

EWWWW! GTH!! I HATE PEDO’S.
I feel bad for the fans :(

Nov 22, 2017 4:55 AM by removed-user

MoonStar9 said:

SuperRed said:

A 16 year old does not mean pedophilia!

Teenagers at that age can drive where I live!

I chose the word for sentence structure convenience. Regardless, THAT is of more importance? Not the underaged prostitution?

MoonStar9 said:

SuperRed said:

A 16 year old does not mean pedophilia!

Teenagers at that age can drive where I live!

I chose the word for sentence structure convenience. Regardless, THAT is of more importance? Not the underaged prostitution?

MoonStar9 said:

SuperRed said:

A 16 year old does not mean pedophilia!

Teenagers at that age can drive where I live!

I chose the word for sentence structure convenience. Regardless, THAT is of more importance? Not the underaged prostitution?

I never said it was more important...just trying to correct a misconception.

Nov 22, 2017 3:04 AM by SuperRed

SuperRed said:

MoonStar9 said:
And that just what they FOUND. Who knows what he did and they can't prove due to lack of evidence. Reminds me of Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro who was imprisoned in 2002 for underaged prostitution and Shueisha still hired him to write Toriko for Shonen Jump, their young children's magazine. That's TWO Shonen Jump mangakas confirmed to be pedophiles. Who else is hiding? Oda was involved with both Shimabukuro and Watsuki so I hope he isn't one.

A 16 year old does not mean pedophilia!

Teenagers at that age can drive where I live!

I chose the word for sentence structure convenience. Regardless, THAT is of more importance? Not the underaged prostitution?

Nov 22, 2017 2:33 AM by MoonStar9

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