Tag: soul eater

Censorship 2014: Manga and Anime Blamed for Crime

by Maren Williams • January 2, 2015 • Comments Off

Misconceptions and deliberate hyperbole about manga and anime are nothing new, but a CNN segment that aired in June was so impressively wrong that our piece on it was one of the most visited on the site this year. In…

Florida Sheriff Says Soul Eater and Slender Man Directed Teen to Kill

by Maren Williams • September 11, 2014 • Comments Off

After a Florida teen last week attempted to murder her mother and younger brother by setting the family home on fire, authorities and local media are scrutinizing her preferred reading–namely online Slender Man fic and Atsushi Ōkubo’s manga series Soul…