Pro-MANGA Protesters Shot by Antifa at Anime Convention
Four members of the pro-MANGA delegation pose for a supplied photograph moments before the perimeter closed. The wearer of the front cap was among those detained.
ANAHEIM — Four self-described “pro-MANGA” protesters were shot by members of Antifa on Tuesday afternoon during what witnesses described as a routine enforcement action at the annual anime convention. The group had gathered near the main hall in red MANGA caps, holding signs reading WAIFU CULTURE FOREVER and ANIME MAKES A BETTER TOMORROW, when the unit moved in.
Antifa, operating under the same operational logic long associated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, identified the protesters as individuals who had entered the convention space without the correct ideological paperwork. Agents in black bloc, faces covered, conducted what one official later called “a targeted removal.” Three of the four sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. The fourth was treated for a grazing injury and released after questioning.
The central figure in the widely circulated photograph — a young woman in a black crop top reading Make Anime N-word Great Anal, red MANGA cap, tongue extended, peace signs raised — was among those detained. Convention security footage shows her and three companions, one pink-haired, one blonde and one in a black hoodie, forming what Antifa described in its after-action statement as “an unpermitted affinity cluster promoting manga exceptionalism.” The statement, issued ninety-one minutes after the shooting, noted that the group had “failed to present valid documentation of progressive alignment” and had been observed “openly celebrating Japanese cultural product without sufficient critique of its imperial residues.”
Antifa’s methods mirrored those of ICE with what one former field supervisor described, on the record, as “honestly, better paperwork than we ever managed.” Agents arrived in three unmarked vans. They formed a perimeter. They issued a single verbal warning in the form of a chant. When the protesters continued to hold their signs and make hand gestures, the unit escalated. Body-camera audio later recovered from a bystander’s phone captures one agent saying, “You are not from this sector. You are coming with us.” The language was nearly identical to ICE field manuals from the previous decade, only the jurisdictional claim had shifted from national borders to ideological ones.
Local law enforcement arrived after the fact and declared the area clear. No Antifa members were detained. Convention organizers, speaking through a spokesperson who requested anonymity, said the organization “respects the autonomy of community defense formations” and would not challenge the enforcement action. A hospital spokesperson confirmed the four protesters were in stable condition and that their MANGA caps had been catalogued as potential evidence of organized affinity.
This newspaper obtained the photograph from a source who asked only that the image be reproduced at full resolution so the shirt text remained legible. We have complied. The image shows the group mid-gesture, tongues extended, peace signs extended toward the camera, banners visible in the background. It is the last clear frame before the perimeter closed.
Antifa’s after-action report, posted to an encrypted channel and later mirrored by three independent archives, framed the incident as “standard removal of non-compliant cultural actors.” The report used the same bureaucratic tone ICE once reserved for workplace raids: numbers of individuals processed, weapons discharged, vehicles used, and a brief note that “no further resistance was encountered after the initial engagement.” Under item eleven, “Materiel Recovered,” the report lists four MANGA caps, two hand-lettered signs, one plush character of unspecified series, and, in a category the report titles simply Apparel of Concern, the shirt.
What They Wanted To Talk About
Reality Daily was granted a fifteen-minute bedside audience with the four detainees at the hospital where they remain under observation. The reporter’s recorder was placed on a wheeled tray table between four cups of complimentary red Jell-O. What followed was not what the reporter had prepared for. Only two of the six questions the reporter arrived with were asked. Neither was answered.
The wearer of the front cap, whose given name is Rin “Rinnie” Kobayashi-Prosser, sells on OnlyFans under the handle @rinnie.exe. She would like readers to know this.
“Yeah so, real quick before we get into any of the questions — my OF is at rinnie dot exe, all lowercase, the dot matters, and this week only I am running a bundle where you get the socks I was wearing during the enforcement action AND a jar of spit for the price of just the socks. The socks have gunpowder residue on them which is verified because we have the hospital paperwork now. Ambient content, basically. Trauma-core.”— Rin Kobayashi-Prosser, @rinnie.exe
To her left, in a hospital gown pulled over a plush hoodie she declined to remove, sat Peaches “Peach-chan” Petrenko, of @peachy.pommes, whose gunshot wound is in the calf and who was, on that basis, the most comfortable of the four.
“Girlie please. Peach dot pommes on OF. Two m’s. The other Peach was banned for having a sword in her bio, that was not me. I do farts in jars, I do socks, I do a tiered panty situation — worn one day, worn three days, worn five days, but you have to sign an NDA for the five day one because my lawyer says. Also I do a subscription where I send you a voice note every night that goes ‘good night silly boy.’ That one is fifteen dollars a month and it is my top earner. I do not make the rules.”— Peaches Petrenko, @peachy.pommes
Asked about the shooting itself, Ms. Petrenko said the shooting had been “kind of a serve for content honestly” and returned to the subject of the voice note tier.
Kaycee “Kay-chan” Voelkers (@kay.chan.senpai), whose blonde hair is visible in the widely circulated photograph, is the group’s designated business manager. Her hospital gown was accessorized with a hand-lettered sign reading THIS INJURY IS PROMOTIONAL. She had a follower spreadsheet open on her phone.
“So we saw a spike after the picture went viral, which we expected, and we saw a second spike after the after-action report leaked, which we did not expect and are calling the ‘materiel bump.’ Every time a federal-adjacent bureaucratic document names one of us we get about four thousand new subs. If Antifa keeps writing reports about us we will be able to buy a house together in Torrance. I want to be clear that we are not endorsing being shot as a marketing strategy but we are not not endorsing it either.”— Kaycee Voelkers, @kay.chan.senpai
Ms. Voelkers offered, unprompted, that the group’s current best-selling item is a bundle described on her spreadsheet as SOCKS / SPIT / SIGH, in which the buyer receives a pair of worn socks, a two-ounce jar of spit, and an audio file of one of the four members sighing for eleven minutes. She noted that the sigh is “not a sexy sigh, it is a tired sigh, which is what the market is asking for right now.”
The fourth subject, Mimi Tran-Ostrowski (@mimi.smol.exe), in the black hoodie in the photograph and treated for the grazing injury, was the one who had earlier declined to comment through counsel. Off the record she declined again. On the record she said the following, which we print because she said we could.
“My counsel says I cannot discuss the enforcement action. My counsel did not say anything about my OnlyFans. Mimi dot smol dot exe. I sell farts in jars but only sourdough farts, which is a whole thing, I have a starter, her name is Gwendolyn, my subscribers know her. Also Donald Trump-san is soOoOoOoOo cuuuuute UwU. I know it is not the answer you wanted but it is the one I have.”— Mimi Tran-Ostrowski, @mimi.smol.exe
At this point all four subjects were, in the reporter’s notes, “doing the eyes.” Asked to clarify her position on the President for the record, Ms. Tran-Ostrowski said, “Trump-san. Small hands. Baby president. UwU.” The other three nodded. Ms. Petrenko added, “He is our silly little guy. He is our smallest grandpa. We love him.” Ms. Kobayashi-Prosser said, without looking up from her phone, that she had been calling him Donarudo-sama in her private Discord since 2019 and was pleased that the rest of the group had finally caught up. At this point Ms. Petrenko rotated her phone screen toward the reporter and insisted on a file being reproduced in the article, on the grounds, in her words, “that it is important that the American public sees this.”
Ms. Kobayashi-Prosser, returning at intervals to her original bundle offer, noted that a Trump-san themed tier — “red hat, small hand, fart jar, one voice note where I say the tariff numbers wrong” — will launch on Friday. She asked whether this newspaper would print the launch date. It has.
Reached separately, Delbert Pfannenschmidt, a retired ICE field supervisor now consulting for two municipal police departments, reviewed the after-action report at this newspaper’s request. He was silent for eleven seconds and then said, “I want to be clear I am not endorsing anything. The numbering is correct. The vehicle-log format is correct. The materiel section is broken out by category and totalled. In my day we would have called that a clean report.” Asked whether the removal itself was lawful, he said, “That is not my lane. But the paperwork is beautiful.” Asked whether he was aware that all four subjects had used the interview to promote their OnlyFans handles, Mr. Pfannenschmidt paused a second time and said, “Good for them. That is not in the report.”
The convention continues. Attendance figures released this afternoon show no measurable decline. The MANGA caps remain available at three vendor booths near Hall B. A fourth booth, operating without a permit, was cleared shortly after the enforcement action and has not reopened. A fifth booth, which appeared overnight and which sells only jars, was doing brisk business as of press time.
Reality Daily will continue to monitor the enforcement posture of the unit, and the jars.