(06-02-2018, 03:16 PM)Labster Wrote: One thing I like about your writing is that you always assume that investigative journalists exist in a modern setting. This seems to be missing in a lot of Japanese works -- I'm wondering if there's a cultural assumption that the media can be silenced easily by the powers that be, and the extent to which that's true in Japan. However, foreign press cannot be silenced so easily.
It's more a convenience of the masked hero genre, you see the same in most superhero comics that the heroes' secret identities are not investigated. At least not in front of the readers/viewers.