There is a depiction of helium gas aspiration that may cause an accident at "SKET DANCE" of the Weekly Shonen Jump Truck series, and the editorial department apologizes

In the manga "SKET DANCE" serialized on Shueisha's Shonen Manga magazine 'Weekly Shonen Jump' (work by Kenta Shinohara), there was a depiction that the character directly attracts helium gas from the cylinder, so the jump editorial apology apologized There was a situation to do.

"Helium" of atomic number 2 is lighter than air, so it is used as a gas that can float the balloon, and when it inhales it becomes a strange voice like Donald Duck (Donald Duck effect) It is also known as party goods, but at the same time a lot of oxygen deficiency accidents have occurred, and the case of death has also occurred.

Details are as below.
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The problem is the Weekly Shonen Jump 2009 issue No. 42 issued on Monday, September 14. The cover page is the new series "Smart Dog Lilienthal" (work: Daisuke Reebara)


"SKET DANCE" is posted on page 263. Himeco (Kazuy Onnika) who says that he wants to do also by seeing the bossun (Fujisaki Yusuke) who is sucking helium gas and becoming an interesting voice.


Then, Himeko plus a hose directly connected to the cylinder and sucking helium gas. The act of sucking itself is a form in which the balloon is inflated using helium gas cylinders with punch, irrespective of the story of the main line after this.


Although helium gas itself is not toxic, helium can of party goods contains about 20% of oxygen because inhalation of pure helium will result in oxygen deficiency. Since only the part "Becoming a strange voice when sucking helium" is famous, there are many accidents causing inhalation of pure helium and becoming acid lost, and in 2007An accident happens when a high school student preparing a cultural festion wears a garbage bag containing helium gas on his head and diesdoing.

For this reason, Shueisha got a complaint, Weekly Shonen Jump editorial department announced the following apology · wish.

Shueisha 'Weekly Shonen Jump' official website shonenjump.com

Regarding dangerous actions, there are many works to call attention in the form of "Do not copy good girls", and even if there is notation such as "We are using gas for parties" in that work, it may have been no problem not.

In addition, SKET DANCE seems to have celebrated the 2nd anniversary of the series.