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“Mii-chan and Yamada-san,” a hit manga with over 3 million copies in print and a 2027 anime adaptation already confirmed, has long been controversial for its provocative storylines and for past remarks by people connected to the series — controversial enough that a social welfare organization once issued a formal statement of concern. Now the series’ creator, known by the pen name Nene Atsuki, is at the center of a fresh uproar: online “identification squads” have exposed what they claim is the author’s real name, face photo, and even family details. A Sankei-affiliated outlet has reported on the dangers of this kind of internet vigilantism. On 5ch, some users criticized the doxxing itself, while others argued over the manga’s portrayal of the hostess/nightlife industry and raised questions about the publisher’s volume-count labeling on the digital edition.
“Mii-chan and Yamada-san” is a smash hit with over 3 million copies in circulation, and a 2027 anime adaptation has already been confirmed. Amid controversy over the series’ provocative content and past remarks by people connected to it — controversy serious enough that a social welfare organization issued a formal statement — a new storm has broken out: personal information purportedly showing the “real name” and “face photo” of the creator, known by the pen name Nene Atsuki, has leaked online. We take a closer look at the runaway escalation of these “identification squads” and the dangers they pose.
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However, there’s no certainty that the information these “identification squads” have dug up is actually true — and even if it were, leaking the real name and face photo of someone working under a pen name amounts to “private punishment,” vigilante justice outside any legal process. What’s more, if the information turns out to be wrong, there’s a real risk that a completely unrelated person could end up being branded as “Nene Atsuki.”
Source: iza.ne.jp / Original article here
What people said
The whole family can only work shady nightlife jobs
I honestly thought it was drawn pretty realistically
Yeah, exactly
I read it thinking 'ah, that feels totally plausible'
The line 'are you brain-dead like Mii-chan?' has basically become a fixture online now
This is basically a pimp ring, isn't it
More women going into nightlife work means more money for scouts, and if they get hooked on host clubs, they're perfect marks
Re: #72
One-and-done poster (i.e., a suspected shill account) — what exactly do you have against Mii-chan/Atsuki?
Why don't you go read it on one of those free-preview sites first?
Just doing that
would show you that everything you're ranting and slandering about
is completely off-base
In the story, that's the ending where she gets killed doing nightlife work
No publisher would've touched this in the first place lol
Being a hostess takes serious people skills, no way Mii-kun could pull that off (´・ω・｀)
It gave people the misconception that nightlife work is done by people with intellectual issues
When in reality, hostess clubs are a high-end job only sharp, good-looking women can actually manage
Nah, it's nothing but airheads
Pitiful girls being backed by hangure (loosely organized street-gang types), that sort of thing
Barely any of that happens these days
Top hostesses pull in tens of millions of yen a year and even start their own businesses
They're dealing with upper-class men, so you genuinely need serious ability to survive in that world
That's true for the cream of the crop, but it's also true there's no bottom to how low it can go if you look further down
The 'top' tier is basically just the cream skimmed off, and lately a huge chunk of their earnings comes from kickbacks tied to the cosmetic-medicine industry anyway
There's no way everyone can be top-tier, and honestly it's a world that climbs by preying on new girls who dream of getting into nightlife work
https://manga.line.me/book/product_list?product_id=E870106&t=1788231317599
It's only 7 volumes in print, but the digital version splits it into 37 volumes
That's a scam
Lol
Kodansha's being way too cheap about this lmao
If you use apps like Magazine Pocket you'd know that's totally normal
It's sold by chapter, not by whole volume
Though it's cheaper per unit because of that
So realistically that's more like 600,000–700,000 copies
Works out to roughly 100,000 people buying it
Background and Key Points
“Mii-chan and Yamada-san” is a hit manga with more than 3 million copies in print, with a 2027 anime adaptation on the way. It’s a series that has already drawn concern from social welfare organizations and others over its content and past remarks by people involved with it. What’s at issue this time isn’t anything the author has said or done — it’s that online users known as “identification squads,” working from information of unverified accuracy, have spread the author’s alleged real name, face photo, and even family details. As the source article points out, there’s no guarantee the person identified is actually the creator, and there’s a real risk that information about a completely unrelated person could spread by mistake. On 5ch, some users criticized the doxxing itself, but discussion also ran in parallel over the merits of the manga’s content and questions about the publisher’s practice of listing different volume counts for the print and digital editions — so no single conclusion has emerged.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[Ripples] Face Photo and Real Name of ‘Mii-chan and Yamada-san’ Creator Nene Atsuki Allegedly Leaked — Extraordinary Situation Escalates to Exposing Family Information.”
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