The manga industry has just
witnessed one of the most epic and justified rudeness in recent years. Tired of
dealing with absolute incompetence, writer Michiru Nakayama and
illustrator Tatsuwaipu dropped a tremendous media bombshell:
they will withdraw their manga Make Heroine wo Katasetai!! (I
Want the Losing Heroine to Win!) from its current publishing house due
to a blatant chain of lies and terrible management by their team, leaving
the community completely speechless at the dark details of
this toxic working relationship.
The level of brazenness suffered by these
creatives is worthy of a real funa. According to the explosive
joint statement, the original publisher had sworn to them that sales of the
first physical volume were skyrocketing and that serialization had a bright
future. However, the reality behind the offices was a constant hell: they
suffered absurd delays in revising scripts, the printing press replaced their
cover illustrations without notifying them, and communication was practically
non-existent. The real bucket of cold water fell when this publisher was
replaced and the new manager showed them the actual sales figures, confirming
that the original issues were mediocre and that the work was at imminent risk
of being prematurely canceled in its fifth volume.
When the authors demanded a face-to-face
meeting with the editor-in-chief to confront the liar, the company's top brass
decided to hide the former editor and remove him from the room unannounced to
protect him from the claims. Faced with this definitive mockery, the artists
made the most drastic decision possible: not only will they cut off the current
publication of the story on the digital platform on July 23, but they demanded
that the company stop distributing absolutely all of their previous works by
December 2026, including titles such as Hagure Yuusha no Isekai Bible and Tamamori
Buchou no Mousou wa Tomaranai. Thankfully, the creators promised that their
losing heroine will return to the ring under the independent label Number Nine
in early 2027
Seeing the disastrous level of professionalism
of some Japanese companies that prefer to lie to their talents rather than face
them with real numbers
