Nippon Television mourns the death of the original creator of “SEXY Miss Tanaka” and establishes a special investigation team with Shogakukan | 4Gamers

2024-02-16 06:47:51

Nippon Television (日テレ, NTV) today (15th) paid tribute to the late original creator of the manga-adapted TV series “SEXY Tanaka” (セクシーTanaka Misaki) Ashihara Princess Miko (Ashihara Princess Miko), and announced that it will cooperate with Shogakukan and external experts to establish a An internal special investigation team, independent of the TV series, is investigating the controversy.

According to Nippon TV’s announcement, it apologized to fans, viewers, TV actors and other related parties of “SEXY Miss Tanaka” at the beginning. “We will take this incident extremely seriously.” In addition to quickly conducting an investigation and review, we will also create a platform to let the original A system for smoother cooperation among authors, screenwriters, and program production teams.

Japanese manga artist Princess Ashihara committed suicide on January 29 at the age of 50. It is said that when she took over the screenwriting of the 9th and 10th episodes of the live-action version of “SEXY Tanaka”, she wrote a long article accusing the story of being significantly changed by the crew, and that her screenwriting ability was She didn’t apologize enough and the article was deleted the next day. SheWrite in the last tweet“I didn’t mean to attack, I’m sorry.”

“SEXY Ms. Tanaka” tells the story of Ms. Tanaka, a single OL who is regarded as a weirdo by the people around her. She has an unknown sexy appearance: she belly dances in restaurants. The comic has been published in Shogakukan’s girls’ comic magazine “Sister Petit Comic” since September 2017. It continues to be serialized, and the single volume has reached the 7th volume, with cumulative sales exceeding 1 million copies. Now the ending cannot be seen due to the author’s death.

Joint statement of Shogakukan Editorial Department on February 8He expressed his condolences to Princess Ashihara and said that she was investigating the matter. The text mentioned that when she was involved in the TV series adaptation of “SEXY Miss Tanaka”, she once revealed in the seventh volume of the stand-alone book that she was worried regarding how to make the TV series into a TV series before the original work was completed. In addition to revising From the character to the plot that deviates from the original work, she is also worried that such changes will cause dissatisfaction among fans.

The Shogakukan editorial board believes that respecting the wishes of the original work is a matter of course and is by no means willful or obnoxious behavior. However, as editors, they reflect on not standing up to defend “the rights that should be protected.”

For the film and television part of Shogakukan’s subsequent works, they will prioritize the protection of the original work, discuss the specific form of negotiation between the TV series crew and the editorial department, and give relevant suggestions. “We will continue this inspection as an entire organization. , rather than holding individuals accountable.”

Whether it is the differences in the script between the original work and the live-action drama team, or the malicious slander of the original work by critics, Shogakukan’s statement seems unable to calm the controversy on social networks, and everyone is waiting for the official reaction of the production team.

It was more than two weeks following Princess Ashihara’s death that Nippon Television finally responded officially. In addition to waiting for the results of the investigation, it also hopes that a more sound cooperation model can be developed in the future of live-action animation.


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