The experience of reading Ichi the Witch's first chapter was pretty emotional for me, in part because I'm so relieved that Shiro Usazaki is drawing manga again.
Most of the conversations about the manga on here that I've seen haven't really mentioned how she lost her job after the author of Act-Age was exposed for being a pedophile and sexual harasser and how Shounen Jump promised she'd get another manga only to leave her in limbo for literal years (outside of a single oneshot work soon after Act-Age's cancellation).
It was deeply upsetting for me because, while she wasn't the primary victim (and said as much in her statement offering support to the victim and basically demanding that the manga end, even though they were about to have a stage play adaptation), her work was profoundly inspiring to me.
I'm glad that she gets the chance to start again with a new collaborator in the form of Osamu Nishi and I hope this one does well!















