Nothing is more darkly humorous than a troll starting grief online. A shitpost here and there can stir the pot and fan the flames of war. That was the premise of 'Honjitsu Watashi wa Enjou Shimashita', or in English 'Today I Went Up in Flames'.
The story follows a high school girl who purposely starts flame wars by shitposting to cause as much online chaos as one can from a keyboard. She does all this for e-fame and actual money. However, it became clear that the mangaka using the alias Dogeza was writing from an almost biographical standpoint. You see, the editorial department of Houbunsha, the people who were going to send Honjitsu to print found out about all the plainly toxic tweets from Dogeza and canceled the whole thing. Apparently they were very bad.
Translation courtesy of MintVoid:
[Announcement] After discussion with the mangaka, we decided that manga "Today I Went Up in Flames" serialized in Manga Time Kirara Max is going to end after the August chapter. We sincerely apologize to all the fans.
Dogeza had become pretty famous due to Honjitsu, which lead fans to pour over his twitter history, and like that guy who was canned from his comfy Hollywood job directing a movie about space heroes, he was equally canned. It turns out that Dogeza had a history of insulting Koreans, has a strong hatred for foreigners coming to Japan, and thinks that people on welfare are bad. Some of these tweets go all the way back to 2012.
Dogeza apologized for “troubling and offending certain people” with his past tweets. He and Houbunsha agreed that he would take a hiatus to allow things to blow over, but a good shitposter's work is never done. Shortly after his month hiatus ended, Dogeza went back to work and launched a series of hate-filled tweets and sarcastic replies to offended people for sending him DMs. The sudden outburst led to his twitter account’s deletion and his manga’s cancelation.
We may have just seen how Honjitsu would have ended, really. What do you make of this whole saga over shitposts? Are you going to pour over your own twitter history for potentially damning messages? Sound off in the comments below.
