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the original bearer of bad news
Hi again. Original poster here.
Tohjo's blog entry is really long, but suffice it to say that after people were complaining about the lack of "mature" filters for her work (since it was a scroll-down screen for her NSFW pics), she started to receive more threatening e-mails, describing her work as an "eyesore", that she was "ruining the TF franchise", and on to death threats. People would ruin her "egaki-chat" sessions when she would show up, etc, and it reached a point she just couldn't handle the stress. Tohjo is a trained artist, and works as a free-lance illustrator. So it all boils down to people here in Japan are extremely jealous of her work, and threats are the quickest way to destroy someone's confidence, and their career - and drawing IS her career. She lives in Hokkaido, and I doubt she has much support, and while we foreigners, on our own turf, would just say STFU to jealous idiots, it's really hard to ignore people here, since circles are small and rumor travels fast, and it really could affect her chances of a job, if it hasn't already. The real irony of it all? That these started coming in after her work was posted on "large public image boards"... The very thing that helped create a fan base for her also brought out the real sh*ts in fandom, too. *sigh. Rant over*
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