History RoleEndingMisdemeanor / AnimeAndManga

* ''New Life+: Young Again in Another World'' was supposed to get an anime adaptation, but development on the series was shelved on June 6, 2018, after its author MINE was caught making sinophobic and (allegedly) koryophobic comments on his Twitter account several years prior, alongside multiple people discovering the controversial contents of the protagonist killing 3,000 people in the second Sino-Japanese War and an additional 2,000 afterwards, both of which he apologized for the day prior. While work on the original light novels were put on indefinite hold, the Manga continued production until 2021.

* Tom Wayland, best known for his work on ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' among others, was accused of rape in 2014, which led to him exiting the show one year later; Creator/LisaOrtiz replaced him as the ADR director. Several of his voice roles were also recast, starting with Ash's Goodra being recast to Creator/JasonGriffith, and currently unidentified voice actors taking over as Ash's Gible and Ash's Boldore.

** Anthony [=DiMascio=], voice of main protagonist Fudo Aikawa/Red Gelato in ''Manga/LoveAfterWorldDomination'' lost his job after numerous sexual allegations arose.

* Tom Wayland, best known for his work on ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' among others, was accused of rape in 2014, which led to him exiting the show one year later; Creator/LisaOrtiz replaced him as the ADR director.

** Anthony [=DiMaschio=], voice of Fudo in Manga/LoveAfterWorldDomination lost his job after numerous sexual allegations arose.

** Creator/AlisonViktorin, best known for voicing Kuroko Shirai in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Conan Edogawa in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' and QT in ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' among others, retired from voice acting in March 2021 due to her posting (and then deleting) several comments in support of the controversial pro-UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Capitol Riots to her public social media accounts, as well as the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Viktorin has since been working on her personal blog.

** Creator/ScottFreeman was arrested and convicted for possession of child pornography in 2015. He was dropped by Funimation and all of his ongoing roles were recast, especially his most famous ones as Issei Hyoudou from ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' (who was replaced by Creator/JoshGrelle from ''[=BorN=]'' onwards), Ian Dietrich from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' (who was recast with Garret Storms in ''Manga/AttackOnTitanJuniorHigh'') and England from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' (played by Creator/TaliesinJaffe in the ''World Twinkle'' dub). Even though Freeman was eventually paroled in December 2016 and moved to Nebraska a few years later, fellow Funimation voice actor/producer Creator/JustinCook said Freeman would likely never be invited to voice act again.

* Pop singer Blake Lewis, the runner-up on the sixth season of ''Series/AmericanIdol'', was dropped from his role as lead character Kasuka Heiwajima on ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' after he announced his return for the second season on Twitter in late February 2015. Announcing news like this before Aniplex of America confirmed that there would even be a dub was a violation of the non-disclosure agreement all voice actors must sign. When the cast was officially announced that March, Kasuka was recast with Creator/VicMignogna.

* Voice actor Creator/TakahiroSakurai was dropped from his role as lead character Haruaki Kurama on ''Ayaka: A Story of Bonds and Wounds'' in March 2023 after ''Shūkan Bunshun'' revealed his 10-year-long extramarital affair seven months earlier. The role was eventually recast with Creator/KosukeToriumi.

** Creator/AlisonViktorin, best known for voicing Kuroko Shirai in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Conan Edogawa in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' and QT in ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' among others, retired from voice acting in March 2021 due to her posting (and then deleting) several comments in support of the controversial pro-UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Capitol Riots to her public social media accounts, as well as the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Viktorin has since been working on her personal blog.

** Creator/AlisonViktorin, best known for voicing Kuroko Shirai in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Conan Edogawa in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' and QT in ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' among others, retired from voice acting in March 2021 due to her posting (and then deleting) several comments in support of the controversial pro-UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Capitol Riots to her public social media accounts, as well as the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. Viktorin has since been working on her personal blog.

* Voice actor Creator/TakahiroSakurai was dropped from his role as lead character Haruaki Kurama on ''Ayaka: A Story of Bonds and Wounds'' in March 2023 after the ''Weekly Bunshun'' reported his 10-year-long extramarital affair seven months earlier. The role was eventually recast with Creator/KosukeToriumi.

* Pop singer Blake Lewis, the runner-up on the sixth season of ''Series/AmericanIdol'', announced on Twitter in late February 2015 he was reprising his role of Kasuka Heiwajima for season 2 of ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''. Announcing news like this before Aniplex of America confirmed that there would even be a dub was a violation of the non-disclosure agreement all voice actors must sign. When the cast was officially announced that March, Kasuka was recast with Creator/VicMignogna.

** For nearly 20 years, Creator/VicMignogna was one of the most famous people in the voice-over industry, appearing in a wide variety of works for well over a decade as an actor, singer, and voice director. But his career was abruptly halted in February 2019 when a string of allegations spanning back at least a ''decade'', if not longer, regarding Mignogna engaging in sexually inappropriate behavior towards fans and his fellow voice actors arose, led to the hashtag [=#KickVic=]. This led to Creator/{{Funimation}}, Creator/BangZoomEntertainment and Creator/{{Studiopolis}} dropping Mignogna from their ongoing projects and recasting his roles. Mignogna sued Funimation and several individuals that April for defamation and tortious interference. The case was initially dismissed in October of that year, and the judge ruled that Mignogna had to pay over $200,000 in attorney fees while granting Funimation right to continue charging him for any further investigations on their end, but then [[https://nyannet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Appellants-Brief.pdf moved to the Court of Appeals]] in February 2020. The appeal was [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LRWjemdsYa3ptIOKX667MablHzqnAUCc/view?usp=sharing_DFRhNXWosqA eventually rejected]] two years later, with paying even ''more'' to the people he sued, ''and'' he was later denied a court re-hearing in October 2022. He appealed to the [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uugqRrTxbxvD5ow2H5IlwD84IUO-lYRY/view?usp=share_link Texas Supreme Court]] in November and [[https://www.txcourts.gov/supreme/orders-opinions/2022/december/december-30-2022/ denied]] in December.

** Chris Thurman, who played Daiki Kurosawa in the English dub of ''[[Literature/KingsGame King's Game: The Animation]]'' among others, was dropped by Funimation in October 2020 after he admitted in a since-deleted Twitter post that he sent nude photos to an underage fan.

* After Jinkaku Radio vocalist Yuuki made disparaging remarks about Creator/YuiHorie in December 2011, the band disassociated themselves from the animated adaptation of ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'', which means the song "Hikizan", which was intended as the show's closing theme, was replaced by Amesaki Annainin's "O-hi-sama". "Hikizan" was supposed to have its own single releasing in February 2012 to go along with the anime but got canceled. However, it was included in their album ''Yui''.

* In November 2014, animator Yumi Kuroiwa was dropped by Creator/ProductionIG for posting explicit artwork on ''Manga/{{Haikyuu}}'' characters and complaining about her working atmosphere at the studio on Twitter (which has since been taken down).

* Shojo mangaka Yuki Suegetsu's career was temporarily halted in 2005 when it was discovered she had plagiarized Creator/TakehikoInoue in multiple places, leading to her series ''Flower of Eden'' being canceled and pulled from store shelves. Suegetsu would spend the next two years struggling to find work before [[CareerResurrection she made a comeback]] with the publication of ''Manga/{{Chihayafuru}}'' in 2007.
* Voice actor and singer Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki went into a brief hiatus in August 2021 after ''Shūkan Bunshun'' revealed he cheated on his wife, J-Pop singer [=LiSA=], along with allegations of breaking NDA. Because of this, several of his roles for that year were recast. Though he eventually resumed to his voice acting career with very few roles in March 2022, his band OLDCODEX disbanded at the end of May.
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' creator Creator/NobuhiroWatsuki [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-11-21/rurouni-kenshin-creator-nobuhiro-watsuki-charged-with-child-pornography-possession/.124308 was charged for possession of child pornography]] after the police discovered [=DVDs=] with nude footage of young girls in their early teens in his office in Tokyo back in October 2017. As a result, Shueisha put the then-ongoing ''Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc'' on a hiatus. After Watsuki posted bail in April 2018 and expressed regret for his actions, Shueisha allowed him to continue working on the manga. However, his fandom remains divided whether they'll continue to support his work or not, and Viz has ceased publication of his manga in the English version of ''Shonen Jump''.

* After ''Manga/ActAge'' writer Tatsuya Matsuki was arrested in August 2020 on suspicion of groping two middle school students (which he admitted to), Shueisha immediately cancelled the manga after discussing the matter with the artist Shiro Usazaki. This was when the manga's popularity was rapidly rising and a stageplay adaptation (as well as, purportedly, an anime) was already in the works.
* ''Anime/KemonoFriends'' director (and widely agreed [[MyRealDaddy true father of the franchise]]) TATSUKI was fired by Kadokawa in September 2017 over a special episode he made for fans without Kadokawa's permission, despite using his own money for the production and having the permission of character designer Mine Yoshizaki. This combined with Kadokawa's perceived cowardly moves in response to the incident (including getting the voice actors to apologize for "hindering" Kadokawa) led to a furious backlash, with the hashtag #[=NoTatsukiNoTanoshi=] trending on Japanese twitter for days.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the anime and manga industry has entertained a lot of people and made billions of dollars. But sometimes, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor jobs, roles and careers have been destroyed with one or more misdemeanors]]. Here are some cautionary tales for people wanting to work in the industry:

* In 2021, Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki went into a hiatus due to health reasons; however, tabloids revealed that he was cheating on his wife, J-Pop singer [=LiSA=], along with allegations of breaking NDA. Because of this, several of his roles in 2021 were recast. Though he did return to his voice acting career with very few roles, his band OLDCODEX disbanded at the end of May 2022.

* In 2021, Creator/TatsuhisaSuzuki went into a hiatus due to health reasons; however, tabloids revealed that he was cheating on his wife, J-Pop singer [=LiSA=], along with allegations of breaking NDA. Because of this, several of his roles in 2021 were recast. Though he did return to his voice acting career with very few roles, his band OLDCODEX disbanded at the end of May 2022.

** For nearly 20 years, Creator/VicMignogna was one of the most famous people in the voice-over industry, appearing in a wide variety of works for well over a decade as an actor, singer, and voice director. But his career was abruptly halted in February 2019 when a string of allegations spanning back at least a ''decade'', if not longer, regarding Mignogna engaging in sexually inappropriate behavior towards fans and his fellow voice actors arose, led to the hashtag [=#KickVic=]. This led to Creator/{{Funimation}}, Creator/BangZoomEntertainment and Creator/{{Studiopolis}} dropping Mignogna from their ongoing projects and recasting his roles. Mignogna sued Funimation and several individuals that April for defamation and tortious interference. The case was initially dismissed in October of that year, and the judge ruled that Mignogna had to pay over $200,000 in attorney fees while granting Funimation right to continue charging him for any further investigations on their end, but then [[https://nyannet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Appellants-Brief.pdf moved to the Court of Appeals]] in February 2020. The appeal was [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LRWjemdsYa3ptIOKX667MablHzqnAUCc/view?usp=sharing_DFRhNXWosqA eventually rejected]] two years later, with paying even]] ''more'' to the people he sued, ''and'' he was later denied a court re-hearing in October 2022. He appealed to the [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uugqRrTxbxvD5ow2H5IlwD84IUO-lYRY/view?usp=share_link Texas Supreme Court]] in November and [[https://www.txcourts.gov/supreme/orders-opinions/2022/december/december-30-2022/ denied]] in December.

** For nearly 20 years, Creator/VicMignogna was one of the most famous people in the voice-over industry, appearing in a wide variety of works for well over a decade as an actor, singer, and voice director. But his career was abruptly halted in February 2019 when a string of allegations spanning back at least a ''decade'', if not longer, regarding Mignogna engaging in sexually inappropriate behavior towards fans and his fellow voice actors arose, led to the hashtag [=#KickVic=]. This led to Creator/{{Funimation}}, Creator/BangZoomEntertainment and Creator/{{Studiopolis}} dropping Mignogna from their ongoing projects and recasting his roles. Mignogna sued Funimation and several individuals that April for defamation and tortious interference. The case was initially dismissed in October of that year, and the judge ruled that Mignogna had to pay over $200,000 in attorney fees while granting Funimation right to continue charging him for any further investigations on their end, but then [[https://nyannet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Appellants-Brief.pdf moved to the Court of Appeals]] in February 2020. The appeal was [[https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1560435490112897026?s=20&t=NrnpZ7dJWW_DFRhNXWosqA eventually rejected]] two years later, with [[https://twitter.com/AuraOfAzure/status/1560435083735072768?s=20&t=NrnpZ7dJWW_DFRhNXWosqA Mignogna paying even]] ''more'' to the people he sued, ''and'' he was later denied a court re-hearing in October 2022.

* After Jinkaku Radio vocalist Yuuki made disparaging remarks about Creator/YuiHorie, the band disassociated themselves from the animated adaptation of ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'', which means the song "Hikizan", which was intended as the show's closing theme, was never used as such and was replaced. Hikizan was supposed to have its own single releasing in February of that year to go along with the anime but got canceled. However, it was included in their album "Yui".
* The serialization of ''Pro Wrestling Superstar Retsuden'' ended in 1983 after co-creator and writer Creator/IkkiKajiwara was arrested for assaulting his editor. During the trial, Kajiwara's history of violence resurfaced, and many of his manga subsequently went out of print. Kajiwara only had one other notable work after his arrest, an autobiography entitled ''Otoko no Seiza'' ("The Constellation of a Ban"), which was left unfinished after succumbing to cancer in 1987. It wasn't until the mid-1990s, several years after his death, that his works got critically reevaluated and his past manga started getting reprinted again.

* Pop singer Blake Lewis, the runner-up on the sixth season of ''Series/AmericanIdol'', announced on Twitter he was reprising his role of Kasuka Heiwajima for season 2 of ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''. Announcing news like this before the anime's publisher confirmed that there would even be a dub was a violation of the non-disclosure agreement all voice actors must sign. When the cast was officially announced, Kasuka was recast with Creator/VicMignogna.

* Tom Wayland, best known for his work on ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' among others, was accused of rape in 2014, which led to him exiting the show one year later; Lisa Ortiz replaced him as the ADR director.
* ''Manga/RecoveryOfAnMMOJunkie'' director Kazuyoshi Yaginuma was dropped by animation studio [=Signal.MD=] following the discovery by fans in 2018 that he had been posting, retweeting, and liking anti-semitic, Holocaust-denying, and pro-Hitler tweets (that have since been deleted) since joining Twitter in 2011.

** During the production of the second season of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', Carly's first season voice actress, Li-Mei Chiang, was rumored to be a member of the Roma Sophie Association, a real-life dangerous cult that was at the time under investigation by Japanese authorities. This led to Carly being recast with Aki Kanada and the production staff panicking to cover up anything that might make the series seem pro-occult, like Aki's powers or the existence of Psychic Duelists on a whole, and several parts of the story were quickly hit with retcons to remove the occult nature of the backstory. However, the show's GenreShift from sci-fi/fantasy to sci-fi outright was already underway before the discoveries were brought to light, so it only reinforced the choice. Unfortunately, this meant that both Aki and Carly had to be DemotedToExtra to get around these aspects, with the latter's entire development with Jack having to be hit with amnesia to justify her downplayed importance.

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Here are [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor some cautionary tales]] for people wanting to work in the anime and manga industry:

** Kenji Yamamoto, the composer for ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' and many ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' video games (such as the popular ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai Budokai]]'' series), was dropped from his agency, Office Two One, in 2011 after it was revealed he'd been plagiarising tracks going as far back as 1991. This resulted in Yamamoto's score for ''Kai'' being replaced by the original Shunsuke Kikuchi score from ''DBZ'', both in later episodes and in DVD releases, as well as the ''Budokai'' [[UpdatedRerelease HD Collection]].

** For nearly 20 years, Creator/VicMignogna was one of the most famous people in the voice-over industry, appearing in a wide variety of works for well over a decade as an actor, singer, and voice director. But his career was abruptly halted in February 2019 when a string of allegations spanning back at least a ''decade'', if not longer, regarding Mignogna engaging in sexually inappropriate behavior towards fans and his fellow voice actors arose, led to the hashtag [=#KickVic=]. This led to Creator/{{Funimation}}, Creator/BangZoomEntertainment and Creator/{{Studiopolis}} dropping Mignogna from their ongoing projects and recasting his roles. Mignogna sued Funimation and several individuals that April for defamation and tortious interference. The case was initially dismissed in October of that year, and the judge ruled that Mignogna had to pay over $200,000 in attorney fees while granting Funimation right to continue charging him for any further investigations on their end, but then [[https://nyannet.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Appellants-Brief.pdf moved to the Court of Appeals]] in February 2020. The appeal was [[https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1560435490112897026?s=20&t=NrnpZ7dJWW_DFRhNXWosqA eventually rejected]] two years later, with [[https://twitter.com/AuraOfAzure/status/1560435083735072768?s=20&t=NrnpZ7dJWW_DFRhNXWosqA Mignogna paying even]] ''more'' to the people he sued.

* MINE, the author of the web novel ''[New Life+] Young Again in Another World'', got in ''very'' hot water in June 2018 when it was discovered that he had a long history of racist tweets towards both the Chinese and South Koreans, a controversy further exacerbated by the protagonist of his novel Renya Kunugi being a reincarnated Imperial Japanese Army war criminal who unapologetically murdered thousands of Chinese during and after World War II, [[KarmaHoudini who escaped retribution for his crimes]]. MINE apologized and deactivated his Twitter account, and the majority of the staff for the anime adaptation resigned, resulting in the production committee deciding to cancel the adaptation altogether. Additionally, shipments of the print version of the novel were halted effective immediately, with English distributor J-Novel doing the same just a week later.

* Nozomi Ginyoku's light novel series ''I Chose to Leave Because I Was Threatened with Expulsion from the Party Unless I Became the Sex Slave of the Female Hero'' was [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-02-25/light-novel-about-sex-slave-cancelled-after-author-heated-tweets-against-illustrator/.143852 canceled]] in February 2019 after he posted a series of volatile and abusive tweets directed at series illustrator Monety.

** Ai Takabe, who was primarily an on camera actress, but also voiced characters such as Fumi Manjome from ''Manga/SweetBlueFlowers'' and Agiri Goshiki from ''Manga/KillMeBaby'', got arrested in October 2015 on charges of cocaine possession. In response, she was terminated from her agency Oscar Promotion and was dropped from her above mentioned role as Agiri Goshiki. Though the charges were dropped, the damage was already done and Takabe left the entertainment industry altogether. Agiri was recast with Creator/MinamiShinoda for ''Kirara Fantasia''.
** Kenji Yamamoto, the composer for ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'' and many ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' video games (such as the popular ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai Budokai]]'' series), was fired by Creator/{{Toei}} in 2011 after it was revealed he'd been plagiarising tracks going as far back as 1991. This resulted in Yamamoto's score for ''Kai'' being replaced by the original Shunsuke Kikuchi score from ''DBZ'', both in later episodes and in DVD releases, as well as the ''Budokai'' [[UpdatedRerelease HD Collection]]. Yamamoto's agency, Office Two One, dropped him shortly thereafter.

** Co-founder Takami Akai left his position during the airing of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' in 2007. This occurred because, during the show's run in Japan, the fourth episode, "Does Having So Many Faces Make You Great?" received heavy criticism from fans over at 2ch due to the OffModel animation choices made during the episode, and during a discussion on said episode made [[DearNegativeReader very negative comments]] towards the viewers and critics. Once this was revealed to the public, he resigned.

** Ai Takabe, who was primarily an on camera actress, but also voiced characters such as Fumi Manjome from ''Manga/SweetBlueFlowers'' and Agiri Goshiki from ''Anime/KillMeBaby'', got arrested in October 2015 on charges of cocaine possession. In response, she was terminated from her agency Oscar Promotion and was dropped from her above mentioned role as Agiri Goshiki. Though the charges were dropped, the damage was already done and Takabe left the entertainment industry altogether. Agiri was recast with Creator/MinamiShinoda for ''Kirara Fantasia''.

** Actress/idol Creator/AiTakabe, best known for her work as Fumi Manjome from ''Manga/SweetBlueFlowers'', was arrested in October 2015 on charges of cocaine possession. In response, she was terminated from her agency Oscar Promotion and was dropped from her role as Agiri Goshiki from ''Manga/KillMeBaby''. Though the charges were dropped, the damage was already done and Takabe left the entertainment industry altogether. Agiri was recast with Creator/MinamiShinoda for ''Kirara Fantasia''.