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Thank you for sharing this. I think the only reason I have guts is because I didn& #39;t have any other choice. https://twitter.com/SlaveOfSuzumiya/status/1318191937183207426">https://twitter.com/SlaveOfSu...
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& #39;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& #39;ve seen the memes with the changes I& #39;ve made for adaptation. And while there has been some support, I& #39;ve been generally left to deal with the harassment alone. It& #39;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& #39;t feed the trolls" right? Yet, my silence never silenced them or prevented them from telling me to kill myself.
That doesn& #39;t mean I didn& #39;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& #39;t work. It never does. My silence has only ever empowered them.
So, if you wonder why I& #39;m so loud, why I fight back, why I scream my opinion, it& #39;s because I have to. Otherwise, I won& #39;t be heard. And I won& #39;t let monsters online and certain elements of the industry make me feel like my voice isn& #39;t worthy of being heard. You shouldn& #39;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. 
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