Ken Akamatsu is the 1st manga artist to be elected to the upper house of the Japanese Diet.

>Shortly after 20:00, the press announced that the winner had been confirmed in the ordinary election for the House of Councillors. This confirmation means the birth of the first manga artist to become a Member of Parliament. Japan will change! I think. I will work hard to fulfil my promises so that I don't betray the voters who voted for me and so that I don't disgrace myself as a 'representative of all the people'.
>freedom of expression in manga and anime
>importance of anime and manga as japan's cultural export
>throughout his career as an artist and activist helped the doujin sub culture a lot, even helping with the website that showed digital manga and doujinshi that were out of print, helping the authors
>warned about the dangers censorship influence coming from overseas

his tweet expressing gratitude to his followers: https://twitter.com/KenAkamatsu/status/1546099560933904384

tl;dr: he was worried about censorship in media for some time now and is promising to prevent that.

 

[No0neKnows]

a handful number of mangakas are expressing their gratitude to him:

MiA author
https://twitter.com/tukushiA/status/1546112253015228416
And a comment on how he used to doodle nipples over akamatsu's manga
https://twitter.com/tukushiA/status/1546122796971229184

BASTARD!! mangaka
https://twitter.com/v007hag/status/1546133530098663425

Murata - artist
https://twitter.com/NEBU_KURO/status/1546103390815817728

hajime no ipo has been retweeting support for him
https://twitter.com/WANPOWANWAN

Zatch bell author
https://twitter.com/raikumakoto/status/1546088680301133825

 

[Lone MacReady]

Hopefully he doesn't have the same proclivities as Kenshin's mangaka.

 

[Wintersun]

I have no idea what a "Japanese Diet" is, so I thought that this article was gonna be about some cannibalism fetish a manga author had.

I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or relieved.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

The mad lad actually did it, holy shit.

 

[Retink]

Null's day is irrecoverably ruined.

 

[Desu Mountain]

He actually did it. What a madlad.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Null's day is irrecoverably ruined.

His day is always ruined unless he has Pizza, Ralph fucks up, or Chantal finally leaves that Arab guy and jumps in his bed so he can feed her all the banana peppers he has pickled and inhale her pepper braps.

 

[Bum Driller]

Does this mean that we can finally have Japanese porn without those ridiculous blurred blocks over cocks?

 

[Maurice Caine]

Please Mr. Akamatsu, give money to SHAFT so they can finish the Madoka movie! C'mon, they adapted Negima in the 2000's! Remember that?

 

[MightyMorphin'Willbender]

I read Akamatsu, and had some brain fart thought: Is this the "Akumetsu" manga dude?
It's not, sadly.

It would be VERY surprising to see THAT guy get elected to anything in Japan, because if anything manga/anime is actually BASED, Akumetsu is pretty up there. It has some Death Note edgelord vibes to it but the writer did use his time to talk a bit about some of the irl biggest corruption scandals in Japan.



ETA: What the fuck the elected guy is literally the Love Hina/Negima!. Fucking just end me.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Hopefully he doesn't have the same proclivities as Kenshin's mangaka.

That case's difficult for me to remember off-head, but wasn't it that he had pornography involving late teens... back when that was (somehow) still legal in Japan?

 

[MoffAlbert]

God speed, you crazy bastard. God speed.

 

[Thomas Talus]

Akamatsu is one of the rare mangaka that understands and cares about both the artistic AND the business sides. If any of them have what it takes to deal with legislation, he would be the one, provided that he understands he can't take extended "research breaks" with his cosplayer wife while the legislature is in session.

 

[Johnny Salami]

Love Hina ruined my life. Should not have watched it when I did

 

[frozenrunner]

Hopefully he doesn't have the same proclivities as Kenshin's mangaka.

"I would like to take this random opportunity to tell everyone pedophiles are bad and I stand against them."

Okay.

 

[Clownish]

This is really interesting.

He is against censorship in Manga and Anime, and understands that it is a cultural export of Japanese culture to the rest of the world. Hopefully this is another barrier against Western PC culture corrupting the sub-genre.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Negima was rad. Good for him.

 

[Haramburger]

Negima was rad.

Harry Potter But He Teaches(!!) At The All-Girls-School. It started to drift off into naruto territory pretty quickly with the fight tournaments and a vampire loli teaching aura control in the tundra.

Love Hina was unlikely but a more grounded, believable premise.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Harry Potter But He Teaches(!!) At The All-Girls-School. It started to drift off into naruto territory pretty quickly with the fight tournaments and a vampire loli teaching aura control in the tundra.

Love Hina was unlikely but a more grounded, believable premise.

I liked the Naruto-esque stuff better. Harem shenanigans get boring after a while.