Perhaps, in the Land of the Rising Sun, such a thing is normal and not considered an exotic. From the Russian people’s point of view, it looks blasphemous. Display of such comics is possible, but the Russian people should not study the works of Dostoevsky on the Japanese comics.
— Dimitri Dostoevsky, great-grandson of Fyodor Dostoevsky, feeling weirded out by the Dostevsky Museum’s exhibit dedicated to Osamu Tezuka’s Crime and Punishment manga set in Japan.








