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The story
A manga depicting a disabled woman subjected to relentless cruelty has become a hot topic on 5ch, after details emerged of how an editor decided to greenlight it for serialization. The series itself has been known for a while, but the recent announcement of an anime adaptation reignited questions about compliance standards and the author’s apparent lack of research. Rather than objecting to the mere depiction of a disabled character, most posters in the thread took issue with how the protagonist’s personality is written and with the author’s research (or lack thereof), sparking debate over why the equally brutal ‘Ushijima the Loan Shark’ gets treated so differently.
What people said
Is Kasumigaseki (Tokyo's government district) supposed to be 'high society' or something?
Amazuki Nene has had so many of her 'flags' (foreshadowed tropes) come true already… wouldn't be surprised if this one does too.
Takadanobaba — whoever wrote this clearly doesn't live in Tokyo.
Plenty of people have pointed out the problem — you just don't have the brains to understand it, right?
It disguises itself well under the skin of a 'Kanto delinquent' story.
To make us money.
Let's not pretend that's a serious take — you clearly don't get it.
Then they could've just made a manga about a garbage able-bodied nightlife worker instead, no?
They could've at least given her some redeeming talent somewhere.
Like 'she's a beauty who drives men crazy, and if not for that she never would've ended up so unlucky' — something like that.
It mocks literally everyone equally,
which gives it this perfect balance where nobody's mad at it.
Lol 😂 true, that manga mocks everyone equally.
Mii-yama, on the other hand, tends to have bad people (personality included) come out ahead. Probably just reflects the author's own worldview.
Probably Twitter trolls.
They looked up the company's registered address and it turned out to be someone's private home.
This whole controversy is probably just a case of them marketing it to death, the backlash getting too loud, the plan falling apart, and now there's infighting over it.
Ah, so that's why the affiliate-site spammers kept flooding the board with threads about it.
If they hadn't been so persistent making threads,
I never would've even heard of this manga.
Isn't it because the stealth marketing was just too obnoxious?
This thing's been camped out on Nan-G (5ch's sports/variety board) for like 10 years.
Is there really anything like that?
I'm not counting obscure manga nobody's heard of that never got an anime.
There's plenty of depressing or dark manga out there, but I can't think of anything more genuinely evil than Mii-yama.
Same thing happened with 'Second Life in Another World' — the anime announcement was the trigger that got the author's past racist remarks exposed too.
These guys can barely even properly watch a manga or anime anymore — don't go calling yourself an otaku.
Aren't those guys not actually defending it though?
I sort of sensed that coming back when the whole genetics controversy was stirring things up.
Even if that was the intent, I think the main issue is the author is too ignorant for it to actually read as realism.
Once it creates an echo chamber where ignorant people hype each other up and that gets broadly promoted, that's when real trouble starts.
You do see a bit of a pattern where people who don't actually understand reality all that well go around shouting 'this is how the real world works! We're the smart ones who get it!' — and then get dogpiled for it.
Even though 'Ushijima the Loan Shark' is the same kind of shock-value manga, it was built on real research to get to that level.
Fair point.
You can tell manga like 'Stardust Prince' (another shock-value manga on the Manga One app, about a host club) actually did its research too.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
This isn’t the first time a ‘shock-value’ work centered on a disabled protagonist has sparked conflict — debates over how fiction portrays vulnerable people have flared up before, including past controversy over genetics-related content. In the thread, opinion split between criticizing the mere fact that a disabled character was depicted versus criticizing the protagonist’s personality and the author’s lack of research, with the latter view being the majority position. Works cited for comparison, such as ‘Ushijima the Loan Shark’ and ‘Stardust Prince,’ were praised for being grounded in actual research despite similarly shock-value subject matter, framed as the key difference from this work. At the same time, some posts conflated this criticism with a separate controversy over the author’s past discriminatory remarks tied to a different work — worth noting for readers, since the two are distinct incidents.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Manga artist: ‘I wrote a manga where a disabled person just gets tormented nonstop’ Editor: ‘Nice, let’s serialize it!!’ — this.”
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