Inclusion Japan: Japanese Association of/for People With Intellectual Disabilities has published a joint opinion about the upcoming adaptation of Mii-chan and Miss Yamada.

In it, the association challenges previous statements made by the production committee as well as several figures involved with the anime adaptation. While the controversy behind Azuki Nene's previous pen name Diana was already known, it is now alleged that several members of the Kodansha editorial department were caught on film saying such things as "Stories about people being unhappy are really fun."

All of this causes the organization to doubt whether or not the original work truly has enough meaning to adapt into animation, as stated previously by the production committee. What's important to note here is that this is not a call to scrap the anime entirely; rather, to reconsider the approach and provide more details to dissuade widespread criticism. The commitment to bring on board experts and use content warnings still lacks critical detail, for example.

Even though this is not the first opinion to be issued about Mii-chan and Miss Yamada, it is the first to come from such a high ranking body. Inclusion Japan was formed in 1952 and is arguably the most influential advocacy organization for people with intellectual disabilities in Japan today. Just how the anime will respond to this latest critique remains to be seen.