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MAPPA “denotes” the author for copyright reasons

The last few weeks have been full of ups and downs emotions for all the “old school” anime fans, especially for the “Rating 1/2», as they moved past the intense hype surrounding the announcement of a redo for this iconic and important work, to the anxiety for the enormous filtration of episodes that the project suffered due to mismanagement.

This time the “Ranma 1/2” remake project gives us a very curious and ironic vision situation through its author Rumiko Takahashi due to a post on his official account in «x» before Twitter, a situation that has caused a lot of laughter among anime fans on social media.

Rumiko Takashashi, author of “Ranma” 1/2, found herself in this peculiar situation that left fans in disbelief.

Autor de Ranma 1 2 sofre reveses no Twitter por causa de direitos autorais 1

It turns out that the study MAP Once again, an embarrassing moment has passed among fans of the microblogging social network now called “X”, due to the tool they have been using to detect possible copyright infringements of the anime “lying down» a publication by none other than Rumiko Takahashi author of “Ranma 1/2”.

As we can see the publication original from «@rumicworld1010» dated June 25 of this year and where he shared the official video announcing the remake of the anime along with the phrase «It has been decided to produce a completely new Ranma 1/2 anime»! !», is no longer available due to “a complaint from the copyright holder”.

That situation This is because, most likely as a result of the massive leak that this anime and several others suffered, the algorithms for searching for copyright infringements must be operating with very few parameters. strict at the moment. So, everything related to «Rating 1/2» how can it be «suspect» would be under these measures.

While this is more the fault of the algorithm used than the “author reporting herself”, it is still very curious and funny that the same woman who created the original work is suffering the ravages of “copyright infringement” on her own work. Obviously, the fans of anime on the social network it didn't take long for them to realize this and they reacted in many ways.

The vast majority of fans shared their opinions on the platform, some commenting that this was certainly very funny, as now it was necessary to be careful “not to be sued for publishing something about yourself”, on the other hand, in that same comical tone a fan said that she would be quite “crazy” for Rumiko-san would have «self-reported».

However, there were also some other fans who were not so benevolent towards MAPas they commented that this was yet another “fiasco” in their long list of moments embarrassing in the anime industry, for which themes of exploration low quality labor and works in animation.

In this same context, it was commented that this was a case of poor management on the part of the studio or the person responsible for handling these issues, and that in addition, it was a lack out of respect for the author, as well as that it is a misunderstanding, it deserved a sorry public, since in Japan this was a “very serious offense.”

This was definitely quite a moment. surreal that the anime industry has given us, so let us know your opinion on what you think happened here, but most of all, what was your initial reaction to it, whether you found it funny or whether you are one of those who believe this deserves a public apology, as some fans have pointed out.