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https://twitter.com/quzilaxxx/status/875275794448236545
a famous hentai artist was visited by police and told a criminal was inspired by one of his characters to impersonate a government officer in order to get inside an apartment building and attack a little girl. What do you think? I found some translations of the tweet chain in /a/
>I apologize. Although I haven't read much of the replies and other correspondence, I have caught sight of people wondering if a quote on a news site saying "the mangaka reportedly came to an understanding, saying 'From now on, I will never draw manga depicting a girl being victimized sexually'" is true or not, so I wish to address that issue here.
>The nuance of what I said was: "I drew Geiger Counter about four years ago, after which my tastes in what I want to draw has changed, therefore I had originally believed that I was probably not going to author something like Geiger Counter again regardless of the times we live in.
>"It was at that point when I received information that a suspect testified that he read Geiger Counter on the web and committed a copycat crime, that was when I finally believed that I will never feel the need to draw something like Geiger Counter ever again."
>What is stated above is entirely what I feel personally. I don't want anyone to be led to think that freedom of expression has been threatened, that I yielded to pressure from the police, that this establishes a precedent, or any other ideas of that sort.
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>The expression "something like Geiger Counter" was used, but I also said "something to the level of Geiger Counter," "something realistic where a loli is a victim of a sex crime," "something with separate panels clearly depicting [criminal] methods leading up to erotic scenes," and other ambiguous phrasings.
>The police asking me to take "considerations" in making sure the contents of my manga do not lead to copycat crimes was also pretty ambiguous, I believe. The police and I had an extremely ambiguous conversation containing no obligations or assurances, although I assume that me and the other side both agree that this crime should never happen again.
>The police wrote an officious summary [of the conversation] and relayed it to the press, which then wrote an article relying on that report. I believe such a piece would undoubtedly create a far more drastic impression of the meeting than warranted, but now I think this incident has attracted much more interest than I thought it would. I should have made a statement on this yesterday, and I am sorry about the delay.
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This happens every few years.
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