The Weekly Flash magazine reported on its website and April 19 issue that Shueisha removed Mariko Kikuchi‘s “Kami-sama” no Iru Ie de Sodachimashita ~Shūkyō 2-Sei na Watashi-tachi~ (A Home Life With God ~We Children Born Into Religion~) manga from the Yomitai web media platform in February, following alleged backlash from the controversial religious organization Happy Science (Kōfuku no Kagaku).
The anthology essay manga tells a different story about a different faith every chapter, and centers on children who were born into a religion due to having parents practicing the faith, and who had no choice in their entry into the religion. Kikuchi (also the creator of A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad’s an Alcoholic) draws from her own experience of being born into a religion and interviews she conducted with former members of religious groups.
The manga launched on the Yomitai…
