{"id":53092,"date":"2025-10-17T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=53092"},"modified":"2025-10-17T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:22:15","slug":"manga-cancelled-over-authors-child-pornography-arrest-resumes-publication-after-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/manga-cancelled-over-authors-child-pornography-arrest-resumes-publication-after-4-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga cancelled over author&#8217;s child pornography arrest resumes publication after 4 years\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The official X account of the <strong>Please Tell Me! Galko-chan<\/strong> manga announced on October 15 that the series has resumed publication. This comes about four years after the manga was cancelled in response to author Kenya Suzuki being arrested for possessing and attempting to import child pornography.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u300e\u304a\u3057\u3048\u3066\uff01 \u30ae\u30e3\u30eb\u5b50\u3061\u3083\u3093\u300f\u9023\u8f09\u518d\u958b\u3044\u305f\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<br>116\u8a71\u66f4\u65b0\u3055\u308c\u3066\u304a\u308a\u307e\u3059\uff01<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CqJPfD1f95\">https:\/\/t.co\/CqJPfD1f95<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%AE%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AB%E5%AD%90%E3%81%A1%E3%82%83%E3%82%93?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30ae\u30e3\u30eb\u5b50\u3061\u3083\u3093<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%89%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30ab\u30c9\u30b3\u30df<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u304a\u3057\u3048\u3066\uff01 \u30ae\u30e3\u30eb\u5b50\u3061\u3083\u3093\u516c\u5f0f\u30a2\u30ab\u30a6\u30f3\u30c8 (@galko_official) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/galko_official\/status\/1978385402902860136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Please Tell Me! Galko-chan is a comedy manga about the daily lives of high school girls. It was originally self-published through Suzuki\u2019s X account, but later got picked up by major Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten. It was serialized through Kadokawa\u2019s webcomic platform ComicWalker until December 2021, when news of Suzuki\u2019s arrest broke. Although the page hosting the manga itself had been delisted the whole time, it is now back (under Comic Walker\u2019s Apanda label) with a new chapter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suzuki, 40 at the time, had been arrested on suspicion of violating Japan\u2019s Customs Act by importing six volumes of child pornography photo books from Germany. He reportedly admitted to the charges, commenting that he \u201cdesperately wanted nude photos of children from overseas that are unavailable in Japan\u201d (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sankei.com\/article\/20211220-PRH7KWKH5JPG7AT7KQ4UZRNEZU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Sankei Shimbun<\/a>). Police seized 46 books containing child pornography from Suzuki\u2019s home. Following a guilty verdict in March 2022, Suzuki was given a three-year suspended sentence (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/japantoday.com\/category\/crime\/manga-artist-kenya-suzuki-convicted-of-child-pornography-charges-given-suspended-sentence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Japan Today<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/comic-walker.com\/detail\/KC_007125_S\/episodes\/KC_0071250002200011_E?episodeType=first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">message<\/a> announcing Please Tell Me! Galko-chan&#8217;s re-publication, the title\u2019s editorial team commented, \u201cWe are keenly aware that it\u2019s not only the works themselves, but their creators too who exert a profound influence on society. Together with author Kenya Suzuki, we will strive to deliver even more compelling works. We kindly ask for your understanding.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Please Tell Me! 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