Light Novel Writer Shirow Shiratori Announces Marriage

Dude, look at Kenshin and tell me again about creator and their sexuality.

Wait, what? Lol I should read better before commenting.

Dude, the woman in question is at least 34 years old! Calling her a young "girl" is really stretching it.

Considering lower life expectancy for man, she will probably spend her last 15 years alone.

What would bother me personally (as a mature European guy) is that 18 yo are usually stupid and have no idea about real world, getting their living experience from a fake environment (school). Marrying a young girl like this is like tricking her into unequal relationship. This can be ok for some people/cultures though, I hardly can name such cases from my life.

Thanks for the detailed explanation, some people make a fuss over futile and trivial things as always without gathering any information at all. The superficiality of some people is astouning.

I think there is a big misunderstanding going around here. As we know, Shiratori Shirow is 41 years old, so his wife is, obviously, 34. Besides, Sagara-sensei's tweet has a strong comic context, it says "7 years of difference is legal! Undoubtedly legal! Perfectly completely entirely legal!," what is probably intended to joke with the elements of Ryuuou no Oshigoto (And maybe with his own new series?). So, there is no "emphasizing," of course it's completely perfectly entirely legal. I'll not come into the whole lolicon stuff discussion tho, I'm over all this shit already.

Edit: So I reread the thread and saw this link: http://otakomu.jp/archives/718522.html (Sorry for not reading it properly before, I'll take care in the future). And what is said is nothing but "The author of Ryuuou no Oshigoto!, Shiratori Shirow got married! His partner is 'a girl that was 10 when he was 17'." This post simply points a relation between their age and the ages of the protagonists of Ryuuou and nowhere is pointed that they've met while underage (The post's source is also Sagara-sensei's tweet, so take your own conclusions). Second, I did read the first pages of the Light Novel (Amazon's "Look Inside") and I kinda liked his style, his writing is pleasant to read and there is indeed enough information about Shogi (So, while you're free to say whatever you want, please refrain from insult something you don't even know, it's not nice). Third, I've wandered through the entire internet and there's no reliable sources about Watsuki-sensei having "more than 100 DVDs", every site I found simply says "Several" and the idea about "Close to 100" appears solely on forums, so I'd appreciate any link on this matter.
I think that's all. Ah, by the way, Ryuuou no Oshigoto isn't "just popular," it's well-received among critics, writers, Shogi players, public and even prized (Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! overall 26th place and new series 8th place in 2016, and two consecutive first places in in 2017 and 2018. It also received the 28th Shogi Pen Club Big Prize in 2016).

Seems that pedo is still being used as a blanket term :/
It’s absolutely legal and it was their choice to get married. Honestly, I never knew he wrote Nourin as well. I quite enjoyed the anime while it was airing 4 years ago (wow, four years). There was a segment of Ryuuou no Oshigoto! on NHK World in about February that went in-depth with the first three episodes and it really seems interesting. Love the work they put in on shogi. I congratulate them on their marriage and hope they are happy with each other 😃 👍

the 9 years old you try said deemed to get sexualized, is fictional....

so fictional character is more important than an actual human?

Posting on a thread where people are congratulating someone for their marriage to shove your progressive social evangelism down people throats, talk about a desperate proselytist ****.

I see nothing wrong to sexualize anime girls in the first place, is part of the anime culture and a lot of works are based on this (ecchi, harem, hentai, etc...), they aren't human beings and do not have human rights in the first place, they affect no one, is just mere fiction. I defend these works too since i'm for freedom of speech. Now if people don't like lolis is another matter and is ok, anime and manga cover different genres and aren't for everyone, but nobody is forced to buy or read these works, they need to read something else more close to their personal tastes.

Meh, never get some emo people that push drama over trivial things like these like their life is affected, lol.
Anyway i always rooted for them, they indeed love each other a lot and is nice that this was long time ago, mean their love is never faded through years, so congrats for the marriage, they are both great artist so together they will create lots of new great works in future. :)

they are fiction... it's not like they are actually assaulting children... most of lolicon mangaka in fact life normally.... unliess we are talking real life underaged girl, like rurouni kenshin author for example.... he wasn't even has lolicon in the series he draw....

Salty salty salty.

What's with the hate comments?
My parents are 10 years apart in age and my mom married when she was still a teenager 😤
Also the girl is 18 so it's 100% legal. Congrats to the author

it's your personal taste and morality... not an argument to being an asshole to people works, their life and what they enjot as long it's not harming others... stop you morality high horse and white knighting, it's soo damn annoying and arrogant implying other side automatically wrong... and also determine poor writing... people with gantz and naruto in favorite complain about poor writings? lol, lack of self aware is astonishing...

well, IIRC, the anime wasn't that faithful, but the play is still stay to the LN, and again, even shogi player prise it... anime just exagrating other part... also again, you only look at character... nourin has lot insight to agricultural hijinks... kind of similiar to gin no saji and moyashimon... while it does that idols is it's main character, pretty sure rin is protrayed like people who already jaded with her business... the nomber 2 heroine is big breasted tomboy anyways... and you doesn't even considering other 2 series i used for example... you simply hate it because there is harem and lolicon element on it...

Just a note here: I'm just trying to say I'm not trying to discredit what you're saying since again there's an opinion. But I mean, if I have to be HONEST I wrote shitty stories, or whatever that's kinda weird that's near twilight level bullshit but that doesn't equate to me as a person. I guess the reason why I think as such is because of that experience alone along with other things.

Now as I've said before. I get it, you don't like this sort of thing. It's fine, and hey I at least commend for the fact that you didn't went out of your way to insult me at the very least for me trying to explain my input about the argument. Because as far as I know you got onto people's skins a bit for liking the series, sooo. I'll commend ya for that. And yeah, I like the show, but I'm aware of its issues and they're clear. I think of it as something fun, and nothing more as such. And that's for the shogi play itself along with some of the characters... yeah they're not good but if they don't annoy me, then I don't really give a lot of damns I guess? Bothering me will be an issue a lot of times.

Now at the end of the day its just a thought. I just felt like you were getting onto people's skins for it, and my entire point was that you got onto one's case for defending the guy over a connection that doesn't remotely relate to it. The only thing I can see this working if it's evident the age of consent. But as far as that's concerned, there's no info on that. I just felt like you got onto the skin of someone for saying people are basing him off of something. And nothing more.

You can dislike a series, and might dislike an author (I have my own vendetta with Gantz author but that's because the guy pulled so much shit out of his ass for me personally that it actually kills my interest in checking anything further from him again especially after Inuyashiki, and even then that's my own standards of judgement, and yeah I actually don't like his works but eh, even then I wouldn't go too much on the guy anyways, I just have a gripe with his stuff), but unless its clear, I just don't see this claim working.

Okay but what does that change anything of my argument though? You're saying that it is in depth but it's less focused on. My point is that the fact that 3gatsu has more focus on the drama itself, where as the shogi part is only a part that enhances said drama. I just see the shogi part as a way to enhance the actual focus on, and even then (personal opinion) if I have to say something... even then 3gatsu's shogi aspect in itself is boring at best.

Subjectivity is debated of course, and I understand that it is utilized but even I didn't even liked it that much, I'd say. But again, its more of enhancement rather than an important factor imo.

I don't think the fact that a 9-year old going and participating in shogi is inherently a bad thing. Or well becoming a pro. I think the main problem mostly stems from the execution rather than that in itself.

And I am not defending the sexualization in itself (even though I got so used to it since I watched a lot, as long as it doesn't legitimately people irl I don't give much of a shit anyways) but it's just bad to assume what he does irl or what he decides to do. That's the entire point I'm trying to get across. Which is REALLY baseless to assume things by jumping the gun doing that.

There's nothing other than what he writes, and that's it. And when people are trying to get across with it, people will jump on others for it. I get that morals are a thing, but this is a lot to where I actually can't stomach it. Again, you jumped onto someone for saying something against what others said even though its self-explainatory. His writing style (in a lot of cases) =/= Him as a person. This is about the people calling someone a pedo for writing something that not a lot of people are fond of, and people making pretty poorly-executed jokes that comes off as more as jabs than anything. Trust I love me some good ol' pot-shots but these don't come off rather well.

You can argue that writing stuff like this is a form of expression and perception of each one of the authors but that wouldn't always be the case. Who knows.

You can have your set of standards for writing, I have my own as well. And that is completely fine. But again, this is all very baseless since that doesn't lead to anything. A work does not determine one's own self. This is also coming from someone that had read and watched so much of these type of stuff and I'm rather inmune to it at this point, but I don't go off like that.

So only 2 series and from what I remember, Nourin was set in highschool, so comparing that with Ryuuou no Oshigoto is a bit of a stretch personally.

Here's the thing that breaks the argument, even if he wrote these things, that does not equate to such. For all we know, there could be more to it. We have no dates for them being together, and even then it seems like they knew what they were deciding through.

And again, I think you are just jumping the gun here. Seeing how this doesn't seem like something blowing out of proportions.

Oh yeah btw: I saw what you wrote there regarding of the 3gatsu and Ryuuou comparison. They're hardly comparable (and no do not give me one is good and the other is shit, there's no way around that). 3gatsu especially on 2nd season focuses more on the characters than the actual shogi, where as the shogi part is more of a subplot element.

Aka is not the main importance of the anime.

Ryuuou actually focuses on it more than 3gatsu ever did (by no means great, but still something worth noting) especially given that 3gatsu's main focus is the drama, especially 2nd season when the entire shogi part is not that relevant as much.

I will agree that Ryuuou no Oshigoto isn't amazing. I won't deny that (heck for someone that enjoyed it I had issues), but maybe this is more of overblowing because there's no legit connection to the conclusion. Just because he does it that does not equate to "pedophile" as a pedophile by definition would be attracted to actual children.

In Watsuki's case, its completely different because he was exposed for having over 100 discs full of porn with underaged children, which is the line that should never go across. In the guy's case this is more jumping the gun since there's no concrete evidence of such, or becoming one. Unless there's further information about it.

And also before you go onto my case for defending the guy (which apparently being the case, however its more so clarifying since there's nothing), well here's the thing: As far as I'm seeing, there's really no real connection to make to such conclusions. It's baseless assumptions connecting to work that leads to real life, even though we don't have any information for example how many years were they together. For all we know, it would be few years before hand. We don't know specifics to make such conclusions.

Popular hardly means good.