with that reasoning, isn't it a good thing that it got dropped, then? why would you want the creator to pick it back up and jump right into the line of fire again?
they couldn't or didn't want to take the heat, so they got out of the kitchen.
I want the author to bring it back! And tell all the people who got it canceled to go to hell.
If she hadn't been harassed, there would have been no need to withdraw.
Just shut up
People are allowed to criticize a story they find offensive. That’s not the same thing as “harassment.”
If a story builds a romance around a Black slave and a white master using a real history of slavery, people are naturally going to have strong reactions. That’s a predictable consequence of choosing such a sensitive subject.
The author also had every right to withdraw the project if they didn’t want to deal with the backlash. That was their decision. But readers also had every right to say they found the premise offensive. Criticism isn’t censorship just because you disagree with it.
No one is entitled to a positive reception, especially when a story uses a real history of racial oppression as the foundation for a romance. Freedom to create also means people are free to criticize what you create.
What are you talking about? Even in the first comments here, they were organizing a boycott to go and mess with the author's official page.
They pretend to respect opinions, but when people disagree, they act like they have the entitlement to make demands, regurgitating the same argument over and over. As if they couldn't just ignore it and leave it to the people who actually have the capacity to understand and realize that not everything is black and white. They're also asking for the first chapter to be deleted and dare to say that's not censorship.
If you're thin-skinned and lack the resilience to even grasp the idea of a possible fictional story about an interracial couple set in a time of slavery, then you should shut your mouth and go to therapy instead of complaining.
Bitch You’re conflating criticism, boycotts, and harassment as if they’re all the same thing—they aren’t.
If some people harassed the author personally, I don’t support that. Personal attacks and harassment are wrong.
But publicly criticizing a story, refusing to support it, or organizing a boycott because people find the premise offensive isn’t automatically censorship. Consumers have always been free to decide what they do or don’t want to support.
And the issue was never “an interracial couple.” Most people weren’t objecting because the couple was interracial. They were objecting because the romance centered on a master/slave relationship rooted in a real history of racial oppression. Those are two very different things.
If this had simply been an interracial romance in the 19th century, there likely wouldn’t have been the same level of backlash. The controversy came from using a system of slavery and colonial oppression as the backdrop for the romance, not from interracial love itself.
You don’t have to agree with that criticism, but dismissing everyone who disagrees as “needing therapy” doesn’t address the actual concerns people raised.
And of course, criticism is welcome, but that's not all they did. Do you read through your own butt cheeks?
They also keep repeating the same thing in every response and justification: "We're too sensitive and mentally unstable to let the rest of the world decide what to consume." Which makes no sense. Go sort out your mental farts. If your sensitivity is so inflexible, get help, and maybe someday you'll have an ounce of resilience.
The only reason it was cancelled is because the author and everyone behind the manga didn't want to have to deal in the future with all the inept people who would scrutinize every last detail just to have something to complain about and feel attacked, or have to be the knights in shining armor defending the weak and misunderstood in their eyes.