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NEWS: Seven Seas Heads Speak on Nymphet Aftermath

Who was asking the questions here? Web journalism will never gain traction as a legitimate form of reporting until reporters learn to stop asking absurdly slanted questions (if you can even call it that) like the last one: "I am very disappointed that you have canceled Nymphet and will never buy from your company again."

Report the news objectively and save your opinions for a separate article.

Who was asking the questions here? Web journalism will never gain traction as a legitimate form of reporting until reporters learn to stop asking absurdly slanted questions (if you can even call it that) like the last one: "I am very disappointed that you have canceled Nymphet and will never buy from your company again."

Report the news objectively and save your opinions for a separate article.

2) How will this affect the manga market as a whole? My conclusion: I don't know; I can not predict the future any better than anyone else can, but I certainly acknowledge the possibility, however remote, that the Nymphet release could become a poster child by the mainstream media for everything that is wrong with manga. I love the manga industry and I delight in my job, and I would rather not take the risk of causing problems that could undermine this industry, especially in light of the escalating media scrutiny we have been getting on this title. (After Publisher's Weekly contacted me for an interview on Nymphet, it almost seemed like a matter of time before FOX or CNN picked up the story. Call me paranoid, but it's not outside the realm of possibility…)

3) How would this affect our company image on the whole? My conclusion: If the controversy continues to escalate further, it could reflect very poorly on Seven Seas in the eyes of not only those who oppose Nymphet within the manga community, but in the eyes of practically anyone who does not understand manga. Since we plan to release a variety of popular, mainstream titles that are geared not only towards young adults, teens, tweens, and children, the risk that this one title could sabotage the rest of our library did not seem like a sound business decision to me. Also, if our public image became severely compromised, it would surely jeopardize our ability to get further licenses from Japanese publishers.

Who was asking the questions here? Web journalism will never gain traction as a legitimate form of reporting until reporters learn to stop asking absurdly slanted questions (if you can even call it that) like the last one: "I am very disappointed that you have canceled Nymphet and will never buy from your company again."

Report the news objectively and save your opinions for a separate article.

It was not until these past few days, actually, that I personally took the time to delve more closely into the rest of the series and the specific content of the subsequent volumes. Sure, I'd flipped through them before, and what I saw on a cursory glance seemed harmless enough. But this time I sat down and read the series carefully in Japanese, and what I found in volumes two and three were very disturbing.

It was not until these past few days, actually, that I personally took the time to delve more closely into the rest of the series and the specific content of the subsequent volumes. Sure, I'd flipped through them before, and what I saw on a cursory glance seemed harmless enough. But this time I sat down and read the series carefully in Japanese, and what I found in volumes two and three were very disturbing. (Particularly, pages 129-131 in volume three, which are highly problematic.)

In the meantime, let's pray that Fox News doesn't get hold of a copy of Negima or Loveless.

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It was not until these past few days, actually, that I personally took the time to delve more closely into the rest of the series and the specific content of the subsequent volumes. Sure, I'd flipped through them before, and what I saw on a cursory glance seemed harmless enough. But this time I sat down and read the series carefully in Japanese, and what I found in volumes two and three were very disturbing.

Excuuse me, you mean you licensed a potentially controversial manga after giving it only "a cursory glance?! If you're going to even consider publishing stuff like this, you should make damn sure you know what's in it!

So come on internets, what's on pages 129-131? And can all those people claiming that it's just a harmless comedy still stand by their words after that.

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Quote: It was not until these past few days, actually, that I personally took the time to delve more closely into the rest of the series and the specific content of the subsequent volumes. Sure, I'd flipped through them before, and what I saw on a cursory glance seemed harmless enough. But this time I sat down and read the series carefully in Japanese, and what I found in volumes two and three were very disturbing. Excuuse me, you mean you licensed a potentially controversial manga after giving it only "a cursory glance?! If you're going to even consider publishing stuff like this, you should make damn sure you know what's in it!

Learn to read better. He looked through the entire first volume. Its the subsequent volumes that were not out at the time it was licensed that he only glanced through until recently.