{"id":65639,"date":"2026-04-23T14:10:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=65639"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:25:33","slug":"japanese-manga-author-issues-statement-clarifying-they-dont-endorse-their-fictional-story-events-actually-happening-in-real-life-after-being-harassed-into-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/nongaming-news\/japanese-manga-author-issues-statement-clarifying-they-dont-endorse-their-fictional-story-events-actually-happening-in-real-life-after-being-harassed-into-leaving\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese manga author\u00a0clarifies they\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0endorse their fictional story events\u00a0actually\u00a0happening\u00a0in real life after being harassed into leaving X\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>HERO\u2019s Web, the digital manga platform that hosts&nbsp;the&nbsp;<strong>Go&nbsp;for It, Nakamura!<\/strong>&nbsp;(Ganbare, Nakamura-kun!) boys\u2019&nbsp;love comedy manga series, has published a statement from&nbsp;the title\u2019s author&nbsp;Syundei.&nbsp;This comes a week after&nbsp;Syundei&nbsp;announced&nbsp;they&nbsp;would be&nbsp;deleting&nbsp;their&nbsp;X account&nbsp;amidst&nbsp;alleged&nbsp;online harassment, causing an uproar among&nbsp;fans.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u6625\u6ce5\u5148\u751f\u304b\u3089\u3054\u4f1d\u8a00\u3092\u9802\u304d\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<br>\u4e0b\u8a18\u304c\u3054\u4f1d\u8a00\u306e\u5185\u5bb9\u306b\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3059\u3002<br><br>\u300cTV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u300e\u30ac\u30f3\u30d0\u30ec\uff01\u4e2d\u6751\u304f\u3093\uff01\uff01\u300f\u7b2c\uff15\u8a71\u306b\u3066\u3001\u6559\u5e2b\u3068\u751f\u5f92\u304c\u500b\u4eba\u7684\u306b\u9023\u7d61\u5148\u3092\u4ea4\u63db\u3059\u308b\u6f14\u51fa\u304c\u306a\u3055\u308c\u3066\u304a\u308a\u307e\u3059\u304c\u3001\u2026<\/p>&mdash; HERO&#39;S Web (@heros_1101) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heros_1101\/status\/2046876675841945853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To give some background, the Go for It, Nakamura!\u00a0manga recently got an anime adaptation, which is currently airing\u00a0on Crunchyroll in the West. Along with the boost in popularity the original manga received thanks to the anime,\u00a0there\u00a0were\u00a0also\u00a0people\u00a0who took issue with\u00a0specific scenes\u00a0(like\u00a0a perceived suggestive\u00a0interaction\u00a0between a high school student and a teacher)\u00a0and\u00a0took to\u00a0criticizing\u00a0the author directly\u00a0through social media. This soon escalated, with the hate spreading to non-canonical\u00a0pieces of artwork\u00a0Syundei\u00a0posted, as well as some of\u00a0their\u00a0previous\u00a0works\u00a0depicting\u00a0age-gap\u00a0and student-teacher\u00a0relationships.\u00a0Users also took issue with a comedic (non-explicit) \u201ctentacle scene\u201d\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0only present in the manga.\u00a0The complaints\u00a0eventually\u00a0got so\u00a0severe\u00a0the author said they\u00a0\u201cdidn&#8217;t\u00a0see the point in continuing as a manga creator\u201d\u00a0(source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/interest\/2026-04-14\/go-for-it-nakamura-kun-creator-leaves-x-after-dealing-with-alleged-harassment\/.236345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ANN<\/a>), and promptly\u00a0deleted\u00a0their\u00a0X\u00a0account.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their new statement&nbsp;shared by HERO\u2019s Web,&nbsp;Syundei&nbsp;addressed some of these points.&nbsp;They comment,&nbsp;\u201cIn Episode 5 of the TV anime Go for It,&nbsp;Nakamura!,&nbsp;there is a scene where a teacher and a student exchange personal contact information. However, this is intended solely as suggestive&nbsp;BL-style depiction&nbsp;and carries no deeper meaning.&nbsp;The author and the anime production team do not endorse teachers and students exchanging&nbsp;personal&nbsp;contact&nbsp;information.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1358\" height=\"758\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1358px) 100vw, 1358px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260423-65639-001.jpg\" alt=\"Go for It, Nakamura!\" class=\"wp-image-65642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260423-65639-001.jpg 1358w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260423-65639-001-380x212.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260423-65639-001-768x429.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Syundei&nbsp;also&nbsp;notes that there were some things they&nbsp;specifically requested&nbsp;from&nbsp;the anime\u2019s&nbsp;production team, like:&nbsp;making sure&nbsp;the relationship between&nbsp;the male lead&nbsp;Aiki&nbsp;Hirose his teacher Sou&nbsp;Otogiri&nbsp;is depicted within the&nbsp;appropriate&nbsp;limits of a teacher-student relationship, avoiding scenes that are&nbsp;sexually exploitative of the female students,&nbsp;and overall&nbsp;modifying&nbsp;the manga\u2019s&nbsp;&#8220;vulgar\u201d&nbsp;scenes so that they&nbsp;would be&nbsp;suitable&nbsp;for viewers of all ages.&nbsp;Syundei&nbsp;says&nbsp;that the anime production team honored their wishes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhat shockingly, the mangaka also announces that, although some of their past&nbsp;titles&nbsp;have&nbsp;depicted tropes like age-gap relationships and student-teacher pairings,&nbsp;they will no longer be using such themes in their future work.&nbsp;The decision comes&nbsp;in light of&nbsp;a \u201crecent surge in horrific crimes committed by adults against minors,\u201d according to&nbsp;Syundei.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syundei, the author of the Go for It, Nakamura! manga series, has made a new statement following their departure from X last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":65641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-65639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nongaming-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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