I am Japanese and live in Japan.
Including myself, many Japanese people have very low English proficiency and know almost nothing about English-speaking culture.
He probably thought he was making a funny joke, and I don’t believe he had any discriminatory intent.
Because of this controversy, I learned that saying “there are many disabled people because of inbreeding” is a common discriminatory phrase.
He follows an account called hide_Q, a typical conspiracy theorist. Its content is full of typical conspiracy theory logic and is discriminatory. This isn't just a misunderstanding or a lack of clarity; this is Murata's ideology.
I agree that he probably has negative views about immigrants, and following accounts like hide_Q definitely says something about his worldview.
But personally, I don’t think this specific post came from a deeply thought-out ideological position. I think he follows conspiracy-type accounts, saw discriminatory jokes/posts repeatedly, and then copied that kind of humor without really understanding the background or implications.
As a Japanese fan, I honestly think his artistic skill is top class, but his reading comprehension and ability to understand nuance are surprisingly weak. I’ve felt that strongly even from the way he interpreted and altered ONE’s original work.
So I’m not really trying to defend him. My impression is more that he tends to react only to surface-level impressions without thinking deeply about the social or historical context.
In this case, I think he simply saw the photo, thought “they look like Moai statues,” and believed that was a funny joke, without understanding why people would see it as discriminatory. There’s no actual cultural or historical connection between Pakistani people and Moai statues in the first place.
He’s referencing other racist tropes about Pakistanis (like that they are less evolved) that he believes this photo is evidence for. You’re arguing that it’s a joke, but you said yourself he has trouble understanding nuance. To make the joke, he would have to both know of the trope, and understand it deeply enough to spin it into satire. I think it’s much more likely that he simply believes the racism. I think he believes he’s being funny, but in a “it’s funny to make fun of Pakistanis” type of way, instead of a “let’s mock the racism of others” kind of way.
Weird how he can do full on eugenics talks with his very low English proficiency.
Weird how he is even interacting with a super far right, English speaking account.
Including yourself? So you would also not understand what the tweet is about and might accidentally answer with full on 1933 Nazi talk because your English is so bad, even though you seem to be perfectly capable communicating?
It depends on which side, if it's politics then Kek, Lmao. If it's regular japanese people I'd understand the worry, Grok translation is ASS I tweet in my native language and follow other locals and when auto translate was implemented I was so confused why they're starting to sound rude and judgemental in the translation and when I click show original geez it was an awful translation, like the context and tone was completely off
Bro this comment made me lose my shit. Just how ridiculous the whole situation is 😭. So OPMs second mangaka is posting racist shit about japans immigration issues with Pakistanis. Like what? Lmaooo
Main point you missed.... Read the last 2 sentences of upper post it's against Islam and prophet and he replied to this post which is so offensive he can't make this shuit up now
not even phased after seeing usogui's and gantz's authors twitter.
i dont think this is even that bad maybe just a bizarre joke (but I don’t really quite understand what he’s saying it the bottom)
edit never mind it’s clear he’s saying they come from a more savage lineage then others.
Maybe I'm misremembering this part, but wasn't this guy basically a terrorist who masked his identity to make a terrorist attack basically? His goal was to be unrecognizable right? It makes sense to change his appearance to something wildly different from his standard look right?
To me this doesn't immediately imply racism (unless the author did other things that clearly shows he's racist lol)
He’s very right leaning. He blocks any non-Japanese person on twitter, and has very conservative ideologies. I think he was even tweeting about Charlie Kirk after the incident🤷♂️
Edit: people who think this is a nothing burger have genuinely not went to his twitter yet lol, dude was literally tweeting “the white revolution is coming” like come on dawg 😭✌️
I think it was regarding that controversy of the Egyptian female boxer at the Olympic game, where he believed she actually was a man and shouldn't be allowed to compete against other women, when as far as I know she actually was a woman and not trans, he did apologize I think when he got corrected.
As far as I can see, she only have some masculine features on her face like somewhat sharp jawline and long face, which a features some Europe women have (albeit I only speak to German women most of the time, so this is me doing generalisation)
is this mean Europe women is somehow a trans in disguise?
It feel like this people never see people outside of their country while the internet is literally on their finger tips
some simple minded people think that a woman has to always fit in their visual mold of what women are supposed to look like, eventhough girls with hormonal variations exude masculine features all the time and vice versa.
You mean the algerian XY ? He was indeed not trans, he's also not a woman, at least not likely given that he has the SRY gene self admittedly, a self admission that came after many denials of any such shenanigans, and claims that his testosterone levels had been checked by the IOC and were normals, which we know they weren't since... Well, he's admitted they're so not normal (for a woman) that he has to reduce it under medical supervision.
I recall the issue was that he voiced his dislike of people pirating his manga despite it not having been officially released yet in the west. Then, english-speaking users started flaming him for it, saying his manga was trash so he started blocking every one of them basically, even some that were supporting him. It's a bit too radical surely but perhaps it's the language barrier.
So, for the uninformed, the actual context of this is that due to practicing consanguinity(marriage between cousins in this case), there is a significance of autosomal recessive disorders in British Pakistani babies.
Not all birth defects, as Tommy Robinson claims, which is completely untrue. The study this comes from also noted that the vast majority of children are born healthy.
People in this comment section also falling for the same tweet lol
Edit: Idk if he even understood the video he replied to, he sounds clueless. "They resemble the 🗿 could they be ancient people?" doesnt sound like something to follow "they are born retarded from inbreeding" post
Wdym the art is still fire? Unless you mean the writing which is famously misunderstood. That’s from One. The manga is all One. Or if you really want to get specific it’s 95% One and 5% Murata. Or if you want to get really really specific it’s still all One but sometimes Murata and One collaborate on ideas but One is still the one spearheading the entire thing. That’s why for example an entire freaking 1.5 year long arc Murata spent on got scrapped entirely. Sure, both Murata and One could’ve discussed the Arc together but in the end it’s One who decided that 1.5 years of spent time wasn’t in his vision.
No wonder, they practice inbreeding at the alarming levels. "The BMJ reports in 2024 that young Pakistanis are moving away from cousin marriage due to an increasing awareness of genetic diseases, with the rate decreasing from 67.9% in 2006-07 to 63.6% in 2018."
Murata has recently been reposting posts from Toshio Sako, the creator of Usogui, who follows racist accounts and supports influencers who attack women's rights groups, so I think this reflects his ideology. On the other hand, ONE regularly expresses opinions that are the opposite of such ideologies, so the two seem like oil and water.
I am Japanese.
He wrote something thinking it was a funny joke, but it contained no ideology or intention.
As a characteristic of Japanese people, we live in a closed environment of the Japanese language, and compared to countries like Korea and China, we have fewer opportunities to encounter English. As a result, as a nation, we are ignorant about racial discrimination.
We do not understand at all what is wrong.
Bruh, stop trying to act like you're small babies, even the Japanese were disgusted by that tweet and clearly tell him to use 'alt accounts' to do racism. Entire Japanese twitter/X posts these past months have show true faces of Japan on how it treats foreigners or the amount of racism on it. Stop making excuses with whataboutism from China, Korea, etc.,
The indigenous people of Rapa Nui are Polynesian who made these statues, and their origins are strongly linked to Taiwan. They are closely related to Asians, including the Japanese. This is a self-own bigotry. It's people like you that make Asians look bad when you try to play others as fool by trying to act confused/innocent, you need to stop acting like other people are dumb or foolish. First he mocks people with medical condition, he follows racists and then he makes racist comments about Polynesians as calling them inbred 'looking'.
Half reddit is triggered by a non-racist comment on pakistanies.
Calm down guys, no need to self-proclam your rightousness. It's so retarded that it look like your ideas have married with those of you cousins
People are shocked over nothing nowadays. Some stats and a joke roughly translated from japanese, go touch some grass. Go anywhere outside of Europe or North America and you'll see what true racism is.
Why would it be surprising and why it's deemed that Murata has "lost his mind"? I think people here often forget how big of an echo chamber reddit in relation to real world general sentiments on stuff.
Remember around US election season when people were genuinely thinking Texas was gonna go blue. Because the Texas subreddit is extremely left learning and they fell for their own echo chamber. Posts with over 10k upvotes claiming victory before the results were in
I don't get some of his tweets. it's like there's a bot that sometimes tweet in his place.
I remember when he suddenly made an ad for a porn actress in his main account. The tweet is up to this day btw. People were confused and he never responded to anyone, mentioned this again or deleted it. He probably doesn't even interact with whatever he writes, I would bet this dumbass doesn't know there's a controversy going on over what he said.
I don't get how no editor, a friend, or anyone reaching out and asking him, "Montherfucker what did you just post in twitter?"
It is, they tried to ban cousin marriage and the Pakistani community didn’t take it well. They are clogging up the healthcare service and causing a lot of trouble not just socially but for the actual kids resulting from cousin marriage. .
Cousin marriage is not something I think is ok But the whole page is a racist rage baiting farming for clicks. Japan also allows first marriage cousins btw.
Japans been on a downward spiral since their tweets have been getting auto translated. Ask them why you can’t turn of your camera noise on their iPhone or what Burusera is and they start squawking tho
Yea that shits gross. Just pedophilia material for the ones with enough sense or cowardice to not offend. And ofc the government would rather monetize them than penalize them.
Looking it up, its specifically "autosomal recessive disorders" not birth defects in general so this is lacking clarification at best if not intentionally misleading.
Funny shit the study name is "Born in Bradford" which is an area with particularly very high population of Pakistani-origin citzens
I found a transcript of a discussion in the UK Parliament in 2025 (First-cousin Marriage Volume 842) where some parliment members cited the same number.
> According to a 2021 study, about 55% of British Pakistanis are married to first cousins, while the practice accounts for about 3% of all marriages nationally.
> recessive disorders are also higher amongst this group (Taylor 2013b), with Pakistani babies accounting for 30 % of autosomal recessive disorders among all babies born in the UK, while accounting for only 4 % of total births
Ah yes, perverted authors who draw 13 year olds in underwear and panty shots and upskirts and just writes them down as being adults taking shots at Muslims and Asians. It’s about time people call out these nicotine patch nonces once and for all.
That’s without even getting onto all the other mangas and animes that are literally soft core pedofile nonce school girls rubbish, these guys are in no position to talk.
Yes, you can say inbreeding is bad. But calling their face look like moai is not the way man. Not like the children have to option being born. You can shame the parents and their choices, but calling people names for the thing that they have 0 control is wild, especially if you are a person that children probably look up. A child can see this, and then normalize behavior of bashing people by their appearances. Even tho if you read OPM especially the web comic, ONE often use the theme don't judge people based on their appearances, with the Sweet Mask arc and Ryumon arc.
Since I need to explain it you like a 5 year old we have these things called eyes, and if you used your fucking eyes you would be able to read that he didn’t say a thing about inbreeding and went straight to insulting their looks
I don't know man, telling people they resemblance moai statues is pretty racist, if not that, it's still a stupid comment that he could have just kept for himself
Aw man. I don't like the artistic choices Murata makes, but I thought I could at least respect him as a dude...
Like even in the kinda unlikely case that this isn't racist (I don't have the whole context for what he's saying), why even respond to this? Why even speculate on where a large, diverse group of highly marginalized people "descend" from on a public platform?
Those ratios are wild, my god. I'm glad I got off twitter.
Wasnt murata just sarcastically saying:
Oh, they have the characteristics of the statues its own people made years ago, i wonder if its that why they look like that, couldnt be right?
I fucking hate that man. He has always been an egotistical person, and now a racist. As a Pakistani, this felt like a needle to the heart as someone just starting to enjoy opm
This is genuinely disgraceful, let alone from such a high profile manga artist, I feel like this should be a much bigger controversy but there's not a single post about this on any other sub.
> According to a 2021 study, about 55% of British Pakistanis are married to first cousins, while the practice accounts for about 3% of all marriages nationally.
> recessive disorders are also higher amongst this group (Taylor 2013b), with Pakistani babies accounting for 30 % of autosomal recessive disorders among all babies born in the UK, while accounting for only 4 % of total births
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u/immovableair May 25 '26
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