The official Twitter account of the digital service Shonen Jump Plus from Shueisha announced the one-shot manga Look back from the author of Chainsaw man, Tatsuki Fujimoto, changed to “inappropriate expressions“. The changes have been made”by a desire to avoid the presentation of anything that might be related to promoting prejudice or discrimination. “
In the one-shot there is a man who claims to hear voices and a “paranoid episodeHe comes to an art school with an ax and claims that a student plagiarized his art. Although the event continues to occur in the amended version, both the references to “paranoid episode“And the motivation for plagiarism has been replaced by another text.
In the Japanese version, the line “According to him, he heard voices insulting him during an episode of paranoia“Was replaced with a line saying he intended to kill the first person he saw. The lines “You are wrong! It’s mine, right ?! It was my idea first! You plagiarized my art, didn’t you?Have been replaced with lines suggesting the artist’s creations were looking over his shoulder and making fun of him.
Although the manga was well received in Japan and received more than 1.2 million views in the Shonen Jump Plus, some readers noted the similarities between the events of the manga and the arson incident in Kyoto animationthat took place two years ago, on July 18, 2019. Concerns have also been raised that portraying a person with schizophrenia as a mass murderer could stigmatize mental illness. Finally the author’s one-shot of Chainsaw man debuted in the Shonen Jump Plus in Japan on July 19th. The English version of the manga in MANGA Plus (available in this link) has not been changed at the time of this writing.
Source: ANN
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