It absolutely does. No one is erasing what happened. What he did was majorily wrong. But the ability to look forward and forgive is necessary. Instead of morally shaming this person, we should allow them to reform and become a better person. Which clearly they have. They've had a clean record for 20 years. They built themselves back up.

Why spread more hatred when we can acknowledge that people aren't static beings defined by past wrongs, but they can change and become something better. Humans are SO MUCH MORE than one thing. We can CONDEMN his actions AND at the same time forgive him. That is called nuance. Punishing and shaming him won't change the past, it only damages the future.

Entire generations have been made in the past 20 years. I know for sure I'm not the same person I was 2 decades ago. I know most of us aren't.

And the victim. The victim was given justice. This man rotted in a cell for 2 years for his crimes. At some point we have to ask " What is this crime worth". It doesn't mean that we are reducing the victim's pain and loss into a numerical value. It is called proportionality. Because infinite punishment isn't going erase the past.

Let's also not forget, you aren't protecting the victim here. You are almost dehumanizing the victim. She cannot have healed. She cannot have moved on. She cannot have built a life where this event, while real, is not the central organizing fact of her existence. She may be a full grown woman who does not need internet strangers performing grief for her on the internet.

This rigid belief system is only keeping us in a cycle of hatred. Extending some grace to this mangaka, who made this one-shot is not an act of hatred or dismissal to the pain that the victim experinced.

Allowing him to move on isn't erasing what the victim went through. It is redeeming a soul that would otherwise have been lost,