Thank you for sharing this. I think the only reason I have guts is because I didn't have any other choice. https://twitter.com/SlaveOfSuzumiya/status/1318191937183207426

When gamergaters attacked me over a line in Prison School that I neither wrote nor directed, my career as I knew it was over. Everything I wrote was gone over with a find toothed comb looking for any changes that could be twisted to an "agenda" I never had.

The days of adapting for shows like Panty and Stocking, Hetalia, Spice and Wolf, and others were gone. There seems to be little complaints with shows I wrote before Prison School came out. After that? Well...

I receive relentless hate for a handful of lines I wrote years ago. Overall, that's less than 1% of the lines I have ever written while adapting scripts for anime. Statistically, their complaints should be a compliment. 99% is a pretty high approval rating.

Instead, I am relentlessly criticized. If you follow anime, you've seen the memes with the changes I've made for adaptation. And while there has been some support, I've been generally left to deal with the harassment alone. It's been "my" problem.

It had also been made clear to me that if I did stand up for myself and refused to take the harassment like a good girl, I would no longer have a job. Meanwhile, the harassment grew. I was in a show that used the term "SJW". The harassers assumed I must have been behind it.

I did not write or direct that show. Like Prison School, the writers and director were men. But yet again, that did not matter. I was the one who received death threats. I was the one targeted in a continued public campaign of harassment.

And again, I was left to deal with it alone. Believe it or not, I ignore the vast majority of the harassment I receive. Before Feb 2019, I almost never responded. "Don't feed the trolls" right? Yet, my silence never silenced them or prevented them from telling me to kill myself.

That doesn't mean I didn't have strong opinions or was silent elsewhere. I was doing what I thought I was supposed to - what I was told to do - to shut them up. It didn't work. It never does. My silence has only ever empowered them.

So, if you wonder why I'm so loud, why I fight back, why I scream my opinion, it's because I have to. Otherwise, I won't be heard. And I won't let monsters online and certain elements of the industry make me feel like my voice isn't worthy of being heard. You shouldn't either.

To those who have been supportive, thank you. You kept me from feeling completely abandoned, and I will always be so grateful for your kindness and empathy. I wish there were more people like you in this world.