Black Lagoon Writer: “I Hope You Manga Pirates Get Cancer”

[Jagi]

Black Lagoon Writer: “I Hope You Manga Pirates Get Cancer”

Black Lagoon mangaka Rei Hiroe has told manga pirates in no uncertain terms that they are thieving swine and that “I hope these guys pirating manga get pancreatic cancer soon.”

He made the comments on Twitter, the Internet’s great boon to journalists looking for incendiary soundbites:

I don’t want to link there so I won’t, but what kind of upbringing did these bums asking for every volume of a manga in a zip file get? That is… Well… I hope these guys get cancer of the pancreas or something soon.

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I hope the imbeciles worshipping the imbecile who uploaded that are diagnosed with a never before seen and never to be seen again illness and die in the most ridiculous fashion, so as to be remembered only in medical annals by doctors laughing about how they died.

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Hopefully all those idiots praising him all the time for upping these get busted by the police – I’d love to see the net gloating over their miserable fate.

The cherished delusion of manga and anime pirates that mangaka are indifferent to their actions, or in more deluded cases even that they are grateful for the “publicity,” appears to be fast dissolving under a hail of outraged invective from mangaka of all kinds – most creators would clearly rather be rid of fans too cheap to support their works.

Black Lagoon has been internationally available in English for some time for those wondering, although his comments were not addressed specifically at either Japanese or international fans – doubtless he feels all pirates everywhere deserve a lingering death as cancer wracks their diseased bodies.

 

[Megazell]

LOL

Sadly, this is just an indication that they should take to the internet market better and cheaper.

Makes no sense to provide them online for the same price they are in the store though when you know full well cats are going to pirate that shit.

On top of this there are ongoing mangas that other makers are putting out for free too...

I am collecting 'Berserk' right now but I only get that shit for 99 cents a book through craiglist or STRANDs ($1.50 sometimes) or fuck it because Manga just does not sell in any of my spots.

 

[chilibrick]

that guy just shut up and count his money. if it weren't for piracy, he would be just another struggling manga artist no one would have heard about outside of japan. piracy made manga/anime popular and accessible worldwide.

 

[2nd2none]

Fuck up man. Alot of the manga I have read are "pirate" copy alot of people said was hot or in my interst cause if it was not for them I would have been done with it for a while. The ones I like I tend to buy

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[kidmegaii]

Haha, Saw the comments a couple of days ago. As angry as they want to be at pirates, if it wasn't for them they wouldn't know their is a large demand for their product outside of Japan.

 

[Jagi]

that guy just shut up and count his money. if it weren't for piracy, he would be just another struggling manga artist no one would have heard about outside of japan. piracy made manga/anime popular and accessible worldwide.

Haha, Saw the comments a couple of days ago. As angry as they want to be at pirates, if it wasn't for them they wouldn't know their is a large demand for their product outside of Japan.

if it wasnt for these free comics, i would never have heard of The Walking Dead, i then after reading it for free, went out and bought it, need to go back and get more speaking of.

 

[ansatsusha_gouki]

If it wasnt for 'fansubs' anime and manga wouldnt be huge outside of Japan