You have no ide how fucking salty I STILL am at ANN for getting the localization of her manga cancelled. Everybody could tell that the reasons given were bullshit, too.
>"oh, we realized that the content in later volumes would be too spicy for American audiences"
nah, let's lay it straight on the fucking table, Kodomo no Jikan, and by extension Nymphet!, fell victim to cancel culture in an era BEFORE cancel culture even existed. The reason this shit became lost media is simply that word got out in the normiesphere about the icky pedo age gap romance manga that was gonna be localized, and Seven Seas was forced to cave to public outcry.
It makes me even saltier because it happened way back when, too. I was in middle school when this shit went down. This was before you got million internet points for cancelling a Diddy anime. The only people who should have known about Kodomo no Jikan were the people who were already excited to see it localized. This was back when Narutards nd Avatar: The Last Airbender fans still argued with each other in forums and Time magazine still thought Hayao Miyazaki films were some strange and exotic thing. NOBODY outside of the contingent of weeaboos and weirdos who would have actually bought Nymphet! should have known of its EXISTENCE. We could have had it in Barnes and fucking Noble in an era when they didn't bother to wrap manga in plastic. It should have had the same level of obscurity as any random BL or yuri manga from the same publisher with like eleven readers stateside. All we had to do was play it cool and not fucking TALK to the normies about our weird anime bullshit.
Instead, ANN put out a fucking hit piece on that shit.