After Shonen Jump officially dropped Act-Age after the arrest of disgraced manga writer Tatsuya Matsumoto (AKA Tatsuya Matsuki), a number of his old tweets have surfaced that are now a bit more painful to read after his very real sexual harrassment of two teenage schoolgirls.

In January 2017, before Act-Age even began, he said:

“Manga and movies about sento [shared bathhouses] are popular these days, so I thought of an idea for a new sento manga. In each chapter, a group of junior high boys will introduce methods you can use for peeping at actual sento that exist in reality. What do you think? It’d cause a commotion, wouldn’t it?

“Research and verification [of the peeping methods] would be important, so it would be necessary for me to try them out for myself ahead of time…”

At the time, many would've dismissed this as a joke in bad tase. Sure, voyeurism in fiction is fine because no one ultimately gets hurt, but knowing that the guy is an IRL pervert makes you read these tweets in a different light. And it gets worse from here, after he remembers that public baths in Japan are more popular with the older demographic and decides to switch the genders:

"Now that I think about the ages of people at sento, though, I just don’t feel all that motivated, so instead I’ll make it about two junior high school girls who want to look at naked men! Wow, now that sounds really fun…”

“Every episode would end with them failing to see any naked guys, getting heat exhaustion from the bath, and taking a long drink of milk. But the readers would get to see scenes of the two girls in the bath, so it’d be OK. The ¥460 [US$4.30] sento admission cost is kind of a lot for junior high students to have to part with, and portraying that is probably something guys who have a thing for young girls would find stimulating. Yeah, I’d want to read that manga!”

On paper, this is a decent concept for an ecchi comedy series, but his fixation on junior high school girls that led to his arrest means these tweets haven't aged very well. Speaking of things that didn't age well, he also wrote this in the author's comments section of Shonen Jump earlier this year:

Yikes

So, what do you guys think? Edgy humor or a foreshadowing look at Matsuki's deviant tastes? Assuming a series with the same premise was made with no connections to any real life nonces, would you read it? Let us know as always!