NIPPON SANGOKU Author Deactivates X Account After Otakus Flood His Profile with Explicit Yaoi

The creator of NIPPON SANGOKU deactivated his X account after a series of posts involving fanart and interpretations of his characters sparked major discussion on social media. Before closing his account, mangaka Ikka Matsuki commented that some fan depictions were going beyond his original intentions for the series.

According to the author, certain interpretations made it feel as though his characters were being turned into “something completely different.” He also stated that he prefers to keep his distance from certain works containing sexual content and politely asked fans not to share that type of material directly with him.

NIPPON SANGOKU Author Deactivates X Account After Otakus Flood His Profile with Explicit Yaoi

Want to know exactly what happened? Well, based on what I saw Japanese users discussing, fans who enjoy yaoi and ship the male characters started sharing yaoi fanart with the author on his Twitter profile. Matsuki Ikka politely asked them not to show him sexually explicit yaoi fanart of his characters.

Do you know what happened next? Fujoshis (the name commonly given to yaoi fans) interpreted his request as a form of discrimination by Matsuki Ikka, so they started flooding his profile with even more 18+ yaoi content featuring characters from NIPPON SANGOKU.

Matsuki Ikka even said that those fans were “turning his characters into something completely different,” referring to the explicit yaoi content they were sharing.

The posts published by Ikka Matsuki were later deleted. A few hours afterward, users noticed that his official X account had been deactivated.

Let’s look at some reactions.

• Even though it has characters that seem designed to appeal to the BL audience.
• I think about 90% of this manga’s dōjinshi are about the interactions between the protagonist and Tsune-chan.
• Well, Tsune-chan also brought women home, and the protagonist is a widower. It’s just their appearance that looks like BL.
• So the fandom for this manga was really that aggressive?
• So this is how they use accusations of “discrimination against homosexuals,” huh?
• I watched the anime and thought the art style looked very much like a gay manga. So it wasn’t?
• What surprised me the most was finding out that the author is a man.
• Based on the style of the work and how politely he wrote, I was convinced he was a woman. (Oh, so he’s a man?)
• Given the style of the work, it’s obvious it was made to attract the BL audience. So it’s the author’s fault.
• Just like Uma Musume officially bans erotic dōjinshi, couldn’t they also ban BL content?
• I thought it was a yaoi manga…
• Sending erotic dōjinshi of the author’s own work directly to him… that’s something only a crazy person would do.

Anyway, I haven’t watched this anime or read the manga, but from what I could see, there doesn’t seem to be any yaoi in the work itself, and the author doesn’t appear to have that intention either.

via Esuteru