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The story
The manga artist behind Hajime no Ippo apologized to the creator of Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! on X (formerly Twitter), and the news became a hot topic on 5ch. It started when an exchange on social media apparently snowballed into a dispute out of nowhere; in the thread, the dominant opinion was “if the two of them have settled it themselves, outsiders have no business making noise about it.” At the same time, the discussion branched out into whether famous manga artists should even be using social media in the first place, and whether any artist has actually seen sales grow after getting dragged through a flame war — shifting the conversation from judging the apology itself to the broader theme of “manga artists and social media.”
What people said
Apology
it's not like we G-board regulars need to pile on.
At this point he shouldn't post anything except stuff about himself.
Agreed.
Sneering about it is the lamer move.
the bottom-feeders in the peanut gallery don't need to make noise.
George Akiyama's the bottom tier, you know (a nod to the cult manga artist George Akiyama, famous for extreme/underground work).
I scrolled back through the tweets wondering what set it off, and it wasn't even an anti-fan tweet — just an ordinary one that suddenly blew up into a fight. Kind of scary how it escalated between those two.
how many people have had their mask slip because of it by now?
Whether he does it or not is fine either way, but
why do people try to ban other people from using X?
If you hate it, just don't look — yet people go out of their way to watch and complain.
It's not about going out of your way to look — the info reaches you whether you want it or not.
Most people end up embarrassing themselves, that's why it's being said.
Nobody's saying don't do it.
The point is: if you can't keep the information straight, don't go talking about other people.
Is it true sales were already good before that and haven't really changed since?
The anime adaptation was announced right after that, so it must have already been popular enough to get an anime greenlit even before then.
Can't help it — the world's full of people who can't even apologize these days.
These days it feels like almost nobody can even manage that much… 🥺
Old folks can't apologize.
The only one I can clearly point to as having been torched by feminists is the Tawawa guy.
Toriyama Akira?
The tax evasion thing blew up.
Why are manga artists so cocky on there?
Pro baseball players aren't really like that.
his X account is pretty spicy.
Not interested in the author of garbage manga.
For celebrities and politicians especially, I really think they should properly decide on social media training and how it's going to be run (like whether they'll reply to people) before they start, and whether their agency will check posts.
Way too many people end up losing out because it turns into a slap-fight.
I heard that back in the day, light-novel writers were told at their debut not to quit their day job and to use social media for promotion — wonder how it is now.
Might even be "don't use social media" these days.
and yet he even forgets to post promo for Tough's new volume.
Saru-sensei apparently hates social media —
even during the Ahab arc, someone who came up through the Factory said as much and promoted it on his behalf instead.
Isn't it wild how he never forgets to retweet his disciple's new release, but forgets to announce his own book?
Even so, the ones who won't apologize are the real old-guard dinosaurs.
Well, when the author and the work get mocked that hard online, and the manga pages get illegally uploaded like crazy, of course it's not going to make anyone grow fond of it…
Though for some reason a lot of us convince ourselves we're just ribbing the author and the work out of love.
His disciples are clearly treating it as a joke too, right? Kind of unsettling.
"I paid money and read it!" — like that makes you some kind of hardcore fan mob.
Treating people who actually pay to read it as casuals is wild.
Take notes from Tamaru Hiroshi on how to use social media.
Did the Gantz author do something?
Well, between the nonstop slap-fights, it's rare to find someone worse than a Himasora Akane believer (fans of controversial online figure Himasora Akane, known for lawsuits and flame wars).
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The relationship between manga artists and social media has repeatedly made headlines before, and the thread itself brings up past cases — like the “Tawawa” controversy and the reporting on Toriyama Akira’s tax evasion — where flame wars and apologies affected a work’s sales or reputation. Opinions on this particular apology were split: some took a harsh view, saying “the bar is too low if just apologizing earns praise,” while others defended it, arguing “these days, most people can’t even manage to apologize.” Worth noting is that the thread’s posts alone don’t reveal the specific details of what led to the dispute between the two — the conversation drifted from judging this one apology into the broader question of whether manga artists should be on social media at all.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nanka Jikkyo G) thread “Hajime no Ippo Creator Apologizes to Uzaki-chan Artist lololol.”
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