US EditionPublisher to Investigate Its Hiring of Two Manga Artists Convicted of Sex Crimes
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Big manga artists pull work from publisher after it rehired sexual offender
Over the past weekend, details emerged of a serious scandal that is rocking the manga world, leading to major authors removing their works from Manga One, the digital reading app of publisher Shogakukan. It has been revealed that the publishing house, one of the biggest in Japan, rehired an author who had been arrested in 2020 for sexual assault of an underage girl under a false name to work on a new manga.
A Manga Publisher Secretly Rehired A Writer Convicted Of Sexual Abuse, Sparking A Long Overdue Industry Revolt
On Friday, news broke that Shogakukan's Manga One, a manga publishing company, had secretly hired two mangaka convicted of sex abuse crimes, publishing their works under new pen names. The news resulted in two released statements from the company, the first of which big-name creators found so insufficient that they requested the halting and removal of their series in the vertical. Once this was revealed, it rocked the industry on Twitter, leadin…
Just when we thought Shogakukan couldn't fall any lower after it was discovered that Shoichi Yamamoto's child molester was protected and covered up, the publisher decided to take a shovel and continue digging his own grave.
It has been discovered that Matsuki Tatsuya, the original author of the manga "Act-Age," has been working under a different name for the manga "Seisou no Psychologist," currently being serialized on Shogakukan's manga app "Manga One." This was revealed by an internal investigation conducted by Shogakukan following a sexual assault scandal involving Yamamoto Shoichi, the author of the manga "Datenten Sakusen." In a statement released on Monday, M…
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