CATDOLL: The manga "A World Without Boundaries" that "changes gender at will" was cut short. It turns out that we can't mess around.

If you can freely choose your gender when you turn 18, would you want to change it? The manga "A World Without Boundaries (界のないセカイ)" created by Ji Ye Daikokudo is about such a world with a strange setting. However, the serious theme of exploring gender issues seems to have put great pressure on the publisher, so the first work was cancelled before even a single volume was published! Sure enough, the idea of ​​changing from male to female at will is still too avant-garde in this era.

At the beginning of the story, the male protagonist Yuji received news that his cousin Keitaro, who he had grown up with, was coming to visit him. Unexpectedly, he turned out to be his cousin Keiko. This is the "gender selection system" in the story, which allows people to freely change their gender after turning 18. Of course, there is no need to ask about the mysterious technology used in it. However, Keiko kept teasing and flirting with Yuji at the beginning. The seemingly happy story gradually revealed the reason why Keiko chose to be a girl (cousins ​​in Japan can get married!), and the story became more and more heavy and serious...

How painful is it for Keiko to choose to change her gender? Although the world in the play has a "gender selection system", not everyone can accept others changing their gender. Therefore, this system not only fails to solve the gender problem, but makes the gender problem more complicated, and it has also aroused heated discussions among netizens!

With such great attention, Kodansha originally decided to release the first volume of "A World Without Borders" on March 9, and the author Ji Ye Daikokudo was also happy to promote it. Unexpectedly, one week before the release, the author suddenly announced the suspension of the publication of the volume... How could the publication be suddenly announced to be suspended one week before the release! ?

Then last weekend, the author announced sadly that the serialization of "A World Without Boundaries" on the comics APP platform would be terminated. According to interviews with Japanese media, it seems that the lines in the play that divide the responsibilities of men and women, such as "Men should do their men's work and women should do their women's work", put pressure on the editors of Kodansha and decided to stop publishing to avoid causing controversy...

Many Japanese netizens expressed their dissatisfaction on the author's Twitter account, saying that since the story is about gender issues, it is natural to include controversial lines! Some people also believe that this has something to do with the fact that the author, Ji Ye Daikokudo, was a manga artist who was banned for 18s...