It is said that there has been a debate on the Japanese Internet recently. The origin is that a woman asked the Shueisha personnel when she went to the university to hold a briefing session: “Can women become JUMP comic editors?” Personnel replied: “Although there is no precedent, but do not understand” The heart of the teenager’s can’t be edited by the weekly magazine JUMP. The woman listened to this answer and was very resentful. She thought that the phrase “Ji Ying Society” was a discrimination against women and could not be forgiven
(Twitter account has been locked).
The woman posted the matter on the Internet, causing fierce controversy. Many people stood on her side and criticized Shueisha and JUMP. At the same time, many people did not feel that there was any problem with this
There is indeed a problem of gender discrimination in the juvenile comics’ industry. This is an undeniable fact that many female cartoonists have pointed out
Cartoonistみかわ絵子 once gave an assistant to a male boy cartoonist, the cartoonist’s gender discrimination is very serious, and two of the three assistants are women, but still It’s totally inappropriate to say something like “a young man’s cartoon drawn by a woman”, “Arakawa’s work is hard work”. The mirror that the sensible person painted, of course, was a mess of rubbish, and the work was quickly shackled, and he himself disappeared
(https://twitter.com/mikawaeco/status/1191187333720068096).
However, returning to this incident, “I don’t understand the ‘boy’s heart’, I can’t be the editor of the weekly magazine JUMP. Does it really discriminate against women? Is it not a very normal requirement for employees who develop commercial products to feel the feelings of the user community?
Female cartoonist Takahashi Hideo wrote the comics in “Weekly Juvenile JUMP”, and the editor also told her: “You can remember the youngster’s comics.” Takahashi listened to this and honestly wanted it. “Recalling the heart of a teenager,” although she did not have a boyhood to recall
According to the editor at the time, he took Takahashi’s serialized mirror to the meeting, and did not specifically mention her gender. The editor-in-chief completely misunderstood that this was something that men had drawn. It can be seen that the “juvenile heart” that the “Weekly Juvenile JUMP” requires, the woman seems to have it
Nowadays, Takahashi is no longer in the “Weekly Juvenile JUMP”, and there is no need to take into account the “juvenile heart” when drawing comics. For her, the current top priority is how to make men erotic
(https://twitter.com/sucombut).
The male cartoonist Water Wuzhi also said that just as there are countless uncles in the world who live in innocent girls, there are countless women who have hidden boys in the fifth grade. In the corner of the flower field that the society asks them to have “a woman-like”, the boy is hiding in a cardboard box, holding a stick with a good feel in his hand, and of course his knee stick is still attached to a plaster
(https://twitter.com/nekogaeru/status/1191245721665540096).
A little farther away, just a while ago, a female student asked about water: “The teacher also painted the psychological description of young women. How can we draw the psychology of the opposite sex?” Water answered: “The same human being, The things you think should not be so different.”
Water believes that the thinking of a character is influenced by purpose, environment, preferences and physical state. In addition, individual differences in personality are greater than gender differences, there will be such a man, there will be such a woman. If you describe your thinking based on personality differences, it will become blurred
The same is true for paintings. People on the water use human beings as human beings whose purpose, physical condition, environment and ethics are very different: if you live in the deep forest, you live for 300 years and eat human food. And think that this is normal, then how will you act?
(https://twitter.com/nekogaeru/status/1191350859059195906)
Some people have questions: Can personnel reflect the guidelines of the Junior Comic Book Editorial Department? Comic researcher Quan Xinxing said that the situation of different publishers is different. He was impressed by the editor-in-chief of the former “Weekly Magazine”: “Magazine” must understand the heart of a bad boy, so I told people that I wanted to be a bad teenager, but it was difficult to recruit.” (Because the employees recruited by the big publishing house are basically elites with high academic qualifications).
But this is also something 10 years ago, and I think the information is old. Maybe the current “Magazine” has gathered a lot of elite bad boys
(https://twitter.com/izumino/status/1191306417304551424)