That carreer is probably ruined...

I wonder why he decided to make an online confession.

He doesn't mention sexual abuse in his tumblr post.

I don't know what he did that was wrong, so I can't form an opinion on this.

As for me, I honestly couldn't care less about a replaced voice actor.

It won't lessen my enjoyment of the game.

I'm not sure I understand what's going on here. If he admitted to being abusive in the past doesn't that signal that he's realized his faulty behaviour and that he's trying to correct his faults?

Besides, abuse can mean many things, more context would be needed to form an opinion. We don't know what he actually did.

I'm not a fan of removing one's credit if the person did the work, that feels like erasing history to me. Perhaps Japan is more strict about these "clean image" things then us westerners, I don't know...

-A RATHER LONG TEXT FOLLOWS, you've been warned -

Now this has nothing to do with that voice actor, but after reading some of the comments here I felt compelled to write this.

Regarding the discussion about violent behaviour in relation to autism here, maybe I can provide a bit of context. I have Asperger's myself and I'm neither agressive on purpose nor abusive towards others. I don't have many friends, but those I have I value highly and I treat them with respect as good as I can.

I wasn't diagnosed until I was 21, so throughout my entire school life I had no idea why I was acting different from others in some regards, couldn't understand or explain my own behaviour and it caused me all sorts of trouble.

The main issue I had were sudden outbursts of aggressive behaviour which nobody understood because I'm usually a very calm and friendly person.

When I do get aggressive it's always caused by stress. For example, when I'm having a conversation and other people in the room are talking at the same time then trying to focus on the words of the person I'm talking to becomes extremely stressful for me. I can't do multitasking at all, I get distracted easily and I'm also a very noise sensitive person. Eventually I might just explode and start shouting because I can't take the stress any longer.

Other (non autistic) people couldn't understand my sudden outbursts. It was a regular occurence at school and at home with my parents. Before I was diagnosed I couldn't explain myself after an outburst because I didn't understand it either. They asked me "Why did you start shouting?" or "Why did you throw over your chair and slam the door?", things like that and I stood there and didn't know what to say, even though I felt bad and was sorry for my behaviour. At school I was told to seek aggression training more than once...

I never had aggression training and I don't think it would help in my case, but with the help of my autism therapist I finally learned to handle these situations differently. Instead of thinking "I'll pull through this", nowadays when I start to notice that something is stressing me I tell people "Hey, there's too much going on at once, I'm getting overwhelmed with all this input and I don't want to explode. I'll go outside for a few minutes to calm down, ok?" (Perhaps you could word this more elegantly, but you get the idea).

My coworkers know about my Asperger syndrome and the related stress problem. I've explained the cause of these outbursts to them and how they should handle these situations. People who know me understand when I tell them that I need a bit of quietness for a moment. If the situation allows it, they'll try to keep the noise down, if not nobody is angry with me when I leave the room and go to a quiet place to calm down.

If I do shout I'm calm again within minutes if people just let me be. It is important that nobody tries to reason with me while I'm angry, otherwise I'm getting more and more worked up and it keeps getting worse. That's something my parents took a very long time to finally understand.

Also, I never focus my aggression on people. Usually I'm shouting and I run away, in really bad situations I might smash the door or throw things through the room etc. but I don't project my anger on people.

I've been thinking a lot about this and yes, I am afraid I might actually hurt somebody when I'm angry and a situation escalates too much (although it hasn't happended so far, thankfully). It's simply not possible to avoid every single stressful situation in my life but I'm doing my best to pay attention to my stress level and tell people what's on my mind instead of ignoring it until it's too late and I loose control.

If any of you reading this finds him/herself within the autism spectrum I'm sure you can relate.

Now I realized that I've been rambling on and on and that I wrote a very long message. I apologize. It's a bad habit of mine. I often don't know where to stop when the thoughts start flowing...

Anyways, I felt compelled to share my personal experience after reading through this comment section. Again, I'm sorry for stealing your time with my way too long comment.

For those who were interested enough to read to the end, I hope I managed to help you understand people within the autism spectrum a little better. We are not more and not less agressive than the "normal" (Oh how I dislike that word, nobody is 100% "normal", the world would be dead boring if that were the case) people, it's just that many of us can't cope well with stress and that the world can be lot more stressful to us than it is to non autistic people because we tend to be sensible to various stimuli like noise, light etc. and don't take well to multitasking or processing spoken words.

That's all from me.

Have a great day! Life's too short, so stop fighting and start working together, ok?

Bonus fact, instead of "normal" we call the non autistics neurotypicals. ^_^