Galko-chan Creator Kenya Suzuki Found Guilty, Gets 3 Year Suspended Sentence

The Nagoya District Court docket’s Okazaki Department has discovered Please Inform Me! Galko-chan writer Kenya Suzuki was responsible after the trial on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, for violation of Japan’s Customs Act and possession of kid pornography from Germany. Suzuki has been sentenced to a one-year and two-month jail time period on a three-year suspended sentence.

Based on Decide Ishii, the crime was “a malicious act that promotes the sexual exploitation of youngsters and impairs the soundness of society.”

He’s solely given a suspended sentence considering social sanctions stemming from the crime.

On his official Twitter, the 40-year previous mangaka acknowledged that he has no intention of submitting an enchantment and “admitted the info charged by the prosecution.”

The Aichi Prefectural Police arrested Suzuki on December 2021, on suspicion of possessing youngster pornography. Kadokawa‘s ComicWalker service introduced on Dec 24, that they suspended the serialization of Suzuki’s Please Inform Me! Galko-chan (Oshiete! Galko-chan) manga and its related pages on the identical day of the arrest.

Suzuki allegedly obtained six picture collections from Germany by way of worldwide mail on two separate events in September and October of final yr, violating Japan’s Customs Act.

Suzuki informed the officers after his conviction that he “desperately wished to amass nude photographs of international youngsters that can’t be acquired in Japan.”

Suzuki launched the manga, Please Inform Me! Galko-chan (Oshiete! Galko-chan) on Kadokawa’s ComicWalker digital manga service in June 2014, however revealed on Twitter earlier than that. The manga impressed a tv anime that premiered in January 2015.

Supply: Sankei Information, Twitter