I doubt Watsuki or any other creator is seeing a dime on this for use of their characters. Still a shame his punishment wasn't worse.
Of course he's getting. Every mangaka have copyright of their manga and they get royalties for the licenses.
What? What? I genuinely did not expect this after what happened with Watsuki, especially in tandem with their seeming desire for it to succeed over here by pushing it at E3 of all places. It's not like there's a dearth of other samurai manga in Jump to pull from either if they wanted to put in a samurai character. I mean they have freakin' Gintama. If they specifically wanted a speedy, iaido type samurai, Kyuubei's right there.
Kenshin is the biggest samurai manga and it's also a currently series on Square Jump that it's one of the most popular manga in Japan. It's the reason for why it's there.
If Jump wants to define these characters on their own this would be a good step in doing so. They do own these characters right? If the manga was fairly popular I wouldn't blame them for wanting to still use the series and characters despite what became of the original author.
Jump is just a magazine and editorial from Shueisha. But yeah, they own the copyright of the franchise along the mangakas and also the trademark. It's how it works in Japan and why some manga change publishers since the author pretty much owns it while the publisher owns the distribution/publishing rights along license.
Kenshin isn't 30 years old one, two he barely even fucking got a sentence, much less a fine, three he is making money directly off of merchandising/licensing and is still publishing Kenshin comics with Jump.
It isn't on Shonen Jump since the end of the original serialization at the 90s, it's on Square Jump for the Hokkaido arc. Still Shueisha though.
Yep. Shueisha could have taken the high road and blacklisted the fucker since the government doesn't punish that shit but, nope...
It's not really a question of Shueisha since no publisher in Japan would do anything over it considering that the law is very recent and the stigma still was changed as well, beyond that they wouldn't want to lose him with the manga when it's very successful. It's going to be decades until this law becomes actually well made and it changes overall in perception as well.
Also, there was a case in the past with Shimabukuro with Joshikousei business in which is basically compensated date with highschool girls and he paid a sum of money to have sex with a 16 girl, was condened for 2 years, his manga at the time was cancelled and his sentence was later on suspended. He later on came back and in 2008 made Toriko in WSJ.
I don't buy things that I know pedophiles, rapists, bigots, or abusers directly profit from. Watsuki will directly get a payday from his characters being featured. If you don't see the moral quandry in supporting a pedophile when you know for a fact a fraction of your money will go to his pocket, by all means, buy it. It's true that there is no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism- it's a vile, evil thing like that. But we can at least minimize the harm we do as consumers by not supporting vile creators until they no longer profit from their work. Mmn, yeah, you're probably right that the average RuroKen fan doesn't even know what Watsuki did, let alone anything about him other than he wrote the manga, and Shueisha probably thinks we don't know or care as it was Japanese news. It's saddening.
The fact that the manga continued months after the news and the first volume of the manga sold almost 400k which is really big shows the priority and why nothing was made over it. Unfortunately, what happened didn't change anything over it.
