Go here for this weeks anime discussion, Im just posting this so I get the number straight next time.

Or discuss here too, idc.

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Only days after writing a blog post on the matter and subsequently wiping her social media history in a seeming breakdown, Sexy Tanaka-san mangaka Hinako Ashihara was found dead by suspected suicide at the Nikko Kawaji Dam in Tochigi Prefecture. She was 50.

According to police sources, she was filed as ‘Missing' on January 28th, with her body being found today on the 29th, with what is suspected to be a suicide note also found. Police are still investigating the case.

Ashihara suffered a great deal during the production of the live-action drama series adaptation of her hit manga Sexy Tanaka-san, trying to wrest back her plot and characters from the massively altered version produced by the production committee at Nippon TV. Despite adaptation faithfulness being one of her conditions for giving the green light, she relayed to the scriptwriter via the producers (her only point of contact) the changes she wanted to be made to the adaptation, only to find them rebuffed and unchanged.

Ashihara was then hit by complaints about the shoddy adaptation, not helped by the series scriptwriter Tomoko Aizawa, who pointed out that Ashihara wrote the script for the final two episodes. After detailing everything in her blog post as an explanation, social media users used it as fuel to add to the fire and attack other members of the production, seemingly leading Ashihara to wipe her Twitter and blog, with her now-final Tweet posted on the 28th saying: “I didn't mean it as an attack. I'm sorry.”

Nippon TV commented on the mangaka's death via their online news outlet, saying:

We would like to express our deep sadness and regret at receiving the news of Hinako Ashihara's passing. The adaptation of the October 2023 Sunday drama ‘Sexy Tanaka-san' was proposed by Nippon TV, and through Shogakukan management we discussed and took Ashihara-san's opinions on the scriptwriting into account, leading to the approval and green light for the script and the broadcast. We thank Ashihara-san for giving her best in the production of the show.

As expected, the topic of the mangaka's death and Nippon TV's response immediately caught fire and continues to burn others in its heat, with Aizawa privating her Instagram account. Other mangaka have spoken out about her death, with Nodame Cantabile mangaka Tomoko Ninomiya saying, “This hurts… This hurts too much.”, while mangaka-turned-politician Ken Akamatsu said, “This is something that should never have happened”, though he warned not to let this matter turn into a hate train aimed towards Aizawa.

Apart from Sexy Tanaka-san, Ashihara was known for Sand Chronicles, which also received a successful live-action adaptation by TBS.

Archive thread in case it gets deleted.

https://archived.moe/a/thread/262356225/#262357481

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2nd ranked show is p-do anime

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The manga started in 1989 and was inspired the Iron Male feminist Tyson who in 1987 won world championship and became gen x fav boxer. So the main protagonist was a micro jap Tyson who like try Japanese man is a cuck I mean shy. The manga was supposed also progressing real time and showing boxers life. So in 1995 irl the in the manga it was 1990 because it was progressing very slowly and now in the mange it's 1995 but for some reason they have double camera phones that were introduced in 2017 irl. The author started the manga when he was 24 and he is now 59 and apparently it's halfway it's legit so brutal that many manga artist are so lazy that they don't want to progress their story that now many mangas end up without conclusive like last 10 volumes were about useless sparing that bring 0 value to the story. Then they call manga art

https://archived.moe/pw/thread/13077372#p13077829

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Hit or Miss?

https://twitter.com/stone_toss/status/1749810206304002329

Didnt watch a lot this week, but started watching Fruits Basket. So far its fine, but Im only six episodes in so well see.

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I saved these awhile ago, anyone know anything more about them or have more pictures.

It is nice they like their wolf

Edit:

I did some reverse image searching and found them redditing!

https://old.reddit.com/r/SpiceandWolf/comments/qhdhmv/said_i_would_so_im_finally_posting_my_entire

The imgur album is gone...

Short, upper garment (dujin) with pattern of plum blossoms against swastika, early 19th century pic.twitter.com/Ysrm6jsF1z

— Masterpieces of Japan (@JapanTraCul) January 19, 2024

Discuss why this is the best thing ever in this thread

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only interesting part of BNHA after like the first season or 2

More in comments.

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"mordecai and rigby, i need you to pick up trash around the park"

6 minutes later: https://t.co/T2sie3k66q pic.twitter.com/BpQWDo7YXt

— vids that go hard (@vidsthatgohard) January 15, 2024

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「夜空メル」契約解除に関するお知らせhttps://t.co/wBDiMtCsFR

— カバー株式会社 (@cover_corp) January 16, 2024

Announcement Regarding Termination of Contract with Yozora Mel

We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your continuous support of hololive production.

We regret to announce that as of January 16th, 2024, we have terminated our Virtual YouTuber

Master Agreement with Yozora Mel of hololive.

It has been confirmed that Yozora Mel has been engaging in acts that violated her contract by

leaking information to third parties that she acquired from the company. As a result, we have

determined that it has become difficult to continue managing and supporting her and have elected

to make this decision.

To all our fans and partners, we deeply appreciate all of the great support you have provided

throughout the activities that Yozora Mel has engaged in over a period of 5 years and 8 months

since her debut as part of the first generation of hololive. It is with regret that we must report this

matter in spite of the long-standing activities of Yozora Mel. We sincerely apologize for the

information we are providing at this time.

We will be closing Yozora Mel's YouTube channel and membership by the end of February 2024.

We are taking this matter very seriously, and we intend to make further efforts into instructing our

affiliated talents on compliance matters, so that similar incidents do not happen again in the future.

We hope for your continued support and patronage of the talents of hololive production, as well

as our company.

Thank you.

Statement from other members of gen 1

Statement from mel

https://twitter.com/yozoramel/status/1747179606283812974

To everyone

We sincerely apologize for causing anxiety and discomfort to many people due to this incident.

I deeply regret my careless actions.

We have discussed it with the management and have resolved the issue.

He kindly gave me permission to publish this text.

I feel very sorry for having to say goodbye in this way to everyone who took care of me.

I had a dream that I wanted to make come true with everyone in Kapumin. I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise. But that doesn't mean the memories I have with Kapumin and Holomen will disappear. I will never forget this. I'm always watching over everyone. I love you forever. Thank you for what you have done.

And I'm really sorry.

Yozora Mel

I honestly hate him compared to someone like bakugo. He would have been more interesting if his power was something normally fairly useless like healing bones quickly. That way it's discovered later that his short king body can't handle the power so he has to constantly break his limbs for each new escalating threat. The best part of MHA was everything tournament arc and before that. It got really bad and boring. Not to mention they retconned all might being the worlds greatest hero in history. Star and stripe is way stronger. What a crock of shit. You know what her power is? She can impose laws on something but only two at a time. She can touch herself and say supersonic flight and bam she has it. She turns lasers from flying aircraft into a giant fricking sword. She can basically do anything she wants. How the frick is this not explicitly stronger than All Might? All he does is punch really hard. She basically loses due to not understanding a fringe weakness of her powers and the plot demanded it. More or less plot induced stupidity.