TO MANGA READERS: PLEASE BOYCOTT ALL KAYONO'S WORKS
by
Edj
- Sunday, March 13, 2011
I am currently reading Royal Seventeen Manga by Kayono and stumbled upon one of the forum topics. It seems that there has been a court battle between Kayono and Takashima Kazusa (2009?).
Takashima sued Kayono because she (Kayono) plagiarized some of her works (Wildrock,. idk the others) and molded into her work Shinobi No Onna. But Takashima lost the battle because Kayono have a very famous mangaka mother, IDE Chikae and some connections. Also, the jury was bias because Takashima wrote boy love (yaoi). Takashima cannot publish any manga anymore because Kayono's mother Ide Chikae practically slammed the whole boy-love industry and said something along the lines of"Kayono cannot copy what she has not seen" (because somehow, her daughter can draw smut but doesn't read boy love). Along with that, there is a blacklist in the art industry for people who plagiarize. Yes, Kayono did plagiarize but she won her case, so the loser of the case Takashima, is blacklisted from many magazines. So even if she did draw, no one would accept her drawings. Having a mangaka who lost a plagiarizing case makes the magazine look bad. Takashima is unable to publish because Kayono used her connections with Ide Chikae as her mother and basically plagiarized Takashima's work and then winning her case, forced Takashima out of a livelihood since now Takashima cannot publish manga.
This is the proof:
To know more about this:
http://forums.mangafox.com/showthread.php?t=130944
If you want to help Takashima Kazusa, please sign this petition.
I am not a fan of Yaoi but I feel for Takashima. I also don't want my works & ideas being copied by other people. So if you have read this, please DON'T READ OR BUY any of Kayono's work. Thank you.