Sket Dance author pokes fun at Political Correctness in Witch Watch
Shinohara Kenta is the author of the Kanata no Astra and Sket Dance manga, two successful manga that have been adapted into anime, and he is currently publishing Witch Watch, a romantic comedy action manga.
In the most recent chapter of the manga, chapter 95, we have a scene that simply went viral on social networks in Japan, this scene shows a teacher hitting a student.
The context of the scene is as follows, a new teacher is arriving at school and two students start making fun of her, she prepares to hit them when one of the two boys who was making fun of her says: “Come on, teachers are not allowed to become violent with the children”, in which the teacher hits one of them and says the phrase that went viral:
“Oh I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care about political correctness, I don’t care about the time or anything, just beat up bad guys”
This scene from Chapter 95 of Witch Watch went viral, a post that was made on Twitter reached 1.6 million views!
Author of Sket Dance has already been involved in “Polemic”
Some people who read this manga and saw this part are assuming that the author wanted to put some kind of response in his manga, in the past he ended up getting involved in a controversy.
At the time of all the controversy with Uzaki-chan’s blood donation poster, when feminist groups and people on social media claimed that the poster was uncomfortable for women, Kenta ended up commenting on it.
At the time he said: “Since shonen manga are made for boys, there may be job descriptions that make women feel uncomfortable”, at the time he made this comment a lot of people started complaining about him and soon his Twitter account was deleted .
The fact that Kenta left Twitter after that occasion made a hentai manga author rethink about the feminist movement attacking manga and anime, in 2020 she published the following message on her profile:
“Really, if you want to burn all anime like Uzaki-chan, most manga and anime will be burned… I’m starting to understand why a lot of people worry about this (I’ve been thinking ‘hmm?’ for a while)” .Are you feminists going to fill the manga industry with just the ideal manga you create after burning everything else?”
Anyway, does the author of Witch Watch still think about what happened at the time of Uzaki-chan’s bullshit and put what he thinks in his manga?