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This article is from the misc anime FAQ, by nikkou with numerous contributions by others.

2.1. Was it Whosis took Whatsis and got canned along with _Dragon Half_?

(Thanks so much to Mark Neidengard.)

Funny how the oddest rumors resurface at the oddest times. The author of the Dragon Half manga, MITA Ryuusuke, was never accused or convicted of any drug-related offense. After finishing all seven tankoubon worth of Dragon Half (of which the anime covers like maybe one or two), he went on to do the seven volume series "Kurokami no Captured" and is AFAICT still writing.

My understanding is that it was the then-president of Kadokawa Shoten, Haruki who was sent to jail for possession of cocaine, although recent news reports cast the actual jail time in some doubt. What is indisputable is that something narcotics-related caused a reshuffling at the top of Kadokawa Shoten, which is now run by Haruki's brother(?) Tsuguhiko. Kadokawa Shoten is the parent company of Fujimi Shobo, the publisher of Dragon Half and Captured (although his latest, "Aiten Myou-ou Monogatari", is in Afternoon KC).

And, given the timing, I don't think the narcotics thing had anything to do with Dragon Half only being two episodes. The series that suffered directly were the Silent Mobius/Arslaan Senki double feature movies... had Haruki not gotten into trouble, it is likely that both series would have continued in movie format instead of the shelving that SM got and the low-budget OVA treatment Arslaan got. -- /!\/!ark /!\!eidengard, EE Grad, VLSI. http://keyframe.cjas.org/~mneideng/ "Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Maigo no Daigakuinsei, Cornell U. "Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark Elves!" -Pirotess, _Record_of_Lodoss_War_ Shadowrunner and Anime Addict

 

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