Yuasan has apparently just removed his twitter. My japanese is not good enough to figure out exactly what's going on. It's possible he has stopped updating pixiv too :(
Yuasan has apparently just removed his twitter. My japanese is not good enough to figure out exactly what's going on. It's possible he has stopped updating pixiv too :(
Pixiv account also deleted now. Wonder what happened here.
All I know is there was mention in comments to his latest uploaded picture that there'd been some kind of harassment going on. My japanese isn't too good so I relied a lot on google translate when reading.
A gang of internet hooligans who name themselves "Koshinkyo Followers" somehow made this artist their victim, and dug out all his personal information.
It seems that the key problem is, that this artist once bought himself a personal site domain. Those "Koshinkyo Followers" found out this domain, and used the whois information to track down his real name and mail address.
So after that, this artist had to clear up his twitter to prevent further leakage of his personal information, or maybe he was just threatened to do so with his personal information held in "Koshinkyo Followers"'s hands. _____________________________________ The "Koshinkyo Followers" were named after a notorious lawyer's "Koshin" law firm, and "kyo" means cult or order. The lawyer's most notorious act, was to put some the otakus into jail for humiliating him, after he illegally dug out their personal information.
So many otakus who also enjoy digging other's personal information, call this lawyer their "MASTER", and head of the "Koshin" cult. So they name themselves the followers of that cult.
After some further investigation into the Koshinkyo Follower's discussion, maybe things are much more than what I've dug out before.
According to them, Yuasan has been notorious for not only one type of wrongs:
(1) He showed off the cash inherited from his uncles or some other relatives on twitter, with very little respect to the dead.
(2) He sold Kancolle artwork at a Touhou-only event, and showed off such wrong deeds with photos on twitter. Facing others' blame for that, he just called them "Touhou cops" with scorn, and a strange pride of victory.
(3) He called himself a "teitoku" but turned out to be a fake-fan, who didn't even know who Kisaragi was, and called her an "original character" when every one was watching those episodes of the Kancolle TV anmie.
(4) He has made himself quite a name as a copycat who always stole other's ideas and netas ever since the Touhou time. Just like his deeds above, far from feeling ashamed for that, he somehow got quite proud of showing off those ideas and netas he had stolen, and even used them in his profitable works.
In a word, according to several Koshinkyo Followers: You would never imagine that he could be such a shameless bastard from his works.
And obviously, the (4) is the main reason why the Koshikyo Followers has long been trying to hunt him down.
The more I investigated into, the more I feel that those Koshinkyo Followers are more like those civilian-super-heroes in "Kick-ass".
And their name "Koshin" means "persistence, insistence, patience" in Japanese and Chinese, that suits them really well from their performance in Yuasan's case: they could wait patiently for more than a year until their prey finally gets struck by their "justice".
After some further investigation into the Koshinkyo Follower's discussion, maybe things are much more than what I've dug out before.
According to them, Yuasan has been notorious for not only one type of wrongs:
(1) He showed off the cash inherited from his uncles or some other relatives on twitter, with very little respect to the dead.
(2) He sold Kancolle artwork at a Touhou-only event, and showed off such wrong deeds with photos on twitter. Facing others' blame for that, he just called them "Touhou cops" with scorn, and a strange pride of victory.
(3) He called himself a "teitoku" but turned out to be a fake-fan, who didn't even know who Kisaragi was, and called her an "original character" when every one was watching those episodes of the Kancolle TV anmie.
(4) He has made himself quite a name as a copycat who always stole other's ideas and netas ever since the Touhou time. Just like his deeds above, far from feeling ashamed for that, he somehow got quite proud of showing off those ideas and netas he had stolen, and even used them in his profitable works.
In a word, according to several Koshinkyo Followers: You would never imagine that he could be such a shameless bastard from his works.
And obviously, the (4) is the main reason why the Koshikyo Followers has long been trying to hunt him down.
The more I investigated into, the more I feel that those Koshinkyo Followers are more like those civilian-super-heroes in "Kick-ass".
And their name "Koshin" means "persistence, insistence, patience" in Japanese and Chinese, that suits them really well from their performance in Yuasan's case: they could wait patiently for more than a year until their prey finally gets struck by their "justice".
There is a fine line between: 'justice' and 'extreme vigilantism'. I can say these people are NONE of the former and border on obsessive madness of their own ideals. Regardless, I really doubt they truly exist and it seems more like it would be a random mob of harrassments than an 'organised' bunch of hooligans.
Well.. It still didn't justify their magnitude of actions.. Although reason 1 and 4 is quite good enough to wanting to give someone a knuckle sandwich, it's not good enough to make it into a 'hunt' of this scale.. Just finish that personally, talk it off face to face.. Too many facade floating around in the net..(and so do i wear one too..)
Keo said:
Oh shit! Does that mean I'm a fake fan too? I never even known half the DDs since I don't pay attention to the ones that I don't like. If you give me a picture of the Kagerou classes I probably won't even know them.
I didn't think being a Teitoku was such serious business that I have to even remember Shibafu's Fubuki 1, Fubuki 2, Fubuki with long hair and Fubuki with slightly shorter hair.
Oh man...now I'm scared.
Some people take it to an extreme, some take it casually.. Focusing on solely something you like isn't wrong, just another personal perspective.. It's like being in advertising world, you're good at arts, focus and you'll be a good art director.. You're good at writing, focus and you'll be a good copy writer..
They both stay at their own respective corridor, and will be someone good in their own path.. Perhaps, you'll someday make something great with the DDs you like..
(4) He has made himself quite a name as a copycat who always stole other's ideas and netas ever since the Touhou time. Just like his deeds above, far from feeling ashamed for that, he somehow got quite proud of showing off those ideas and netas he had stolen, and even used them in his profitable works.
If this is true, that makes me quite sad, as I enjoyed a lot of his art. Still doesn't excuse the vigilantism, but yeah... art/idea thievery is not cool.