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NEWS: Kakegurui Writer Homura Kawamoto's Isekai Revenge Manga Canceled After 1 Chapter

I’m just...dumbfounded at this entire situation. Kakegurui is so good! How could the author even manage to make something like this?! The former series has such great writing (the characters are especially well-written), but...this series is a whole other story.

This whole situation is just one big farce. The author should just stick to Kakegurui for now and then, if they want to eventually launch a new series in the future, go ahead with an actual good idea the next time around.

glafrun wrote:

Yea, sarcasm, parody, dark humor etc.... Don't work in Japan at all. Walking on eggshells trying any of that out there. Maybe like 5% of the population understand that type of thing, but the rest will force you out.

(Formerly) Super sarcastic guy that once lived in Japan here that can confirm.
They took everything I said at face value and it made my life very difficult. Because I'm a big dummy on the spectrum, it took me too long to realize what I was doing to myself.

To this day, I still avoid saying sarcastic or dark humor.

Censorship still going strong over there, I see!

mrsatan wrote:

glafrun wrote: Yea, sarcasm, parody, dark humor etc.... Don't work in Japan at all. Walking on eggshells trying any of that out there. Maybe like 5% of the population understand that type of thing, but the rest will force you out. (Formerly) Super sarcastic guy that once lived in Japan here that can confirm. They took everything I said at face value and it made my life very difficult. Because I'm a big dummy on the spectrum, it took me too long to realize what I was doing to myself. To this day, I still avoid saying sarcastic or dark humor.

Classic beginner move After a while, you get used to it and mainly troll them to their faces without them even noticing. As Rick would say, it just gets darker (and lonelier since you're basically making private jokes that that are so private that nobody except for yourself understands, but...).Yeah, Japan is no fun at all and too serious, in a bad, self-justificating and "always taking the highroad" way. Who wouldn't want to slay all the Isekai characters, honestly?

This wasn't censorship, it's a wake up call against edgy for the sake of edgy.

Making the Shin lookalike a spoiler[rapist] made absolutely no sense

and I shudder to think what he had in store for the other characters, since in these kind of scenarios things usually tend to escalate as the story progresses.

I imagine it was only an issue once readers started reacting/complaining about it.

mangamuscle wrote:

jroa wrote: It seems silly to cancel the entire project so quickly instead of following another path. What is more important, continuing a manga project (every year most of them will get axed) or prevent your publishing company from being sued by nine different copyright holders, mhhh, decisions, decisions.

If you put it that way...but in practice, enough differences would reduce the changes of being sued.

Kawamoto has never struck me as a malicious or mean-spirited writer before this either, so I'm actually quite curious if this series would've actually ended up as just a pure revenge fantasy or would've become something different halfway through.

Suxinn wrote:

Kawamoto has never struck me as a malicious or mean-spirited writer before this either, so I'm actually quite curious if this series would've actually ended up as just a pure revenge fantasy or would've become something different halfway through.

I mean, it started with the main villain being an unrepentant rapist. No way to come back from that.

Covnam wrote:

I imagine it was only an issue once readers started reacting/complaining about it.

If the cancellation had anything to do with public outcry, where is the public tweet or press conference asking for forgiveness? The japanese are well known for this kind of acts.