Please Tell Me! Galko-chan author, Kenya Suzuki, has been arrested on suspicion of importing child por*ography from Germany and breaking Japanese customs laws. The 40-year-old author is also being investigated on suspicion of violating Japanese child prostitution and por*ography laws.
The police searched Suzuki’s home in July and confiscated 46 books containing child por*ography. He imported 6 in September and October of last year, and that’s what triggered the investigation. According to Kyodo, he said that he “really wanted the photos, but couldn’t find them in Japan”. The report adds that he also purchased them for his personal collection, and not for selling.
Suzuki was also missing for a while before the arrest. Battan, the author of Nijiiro Complex and Kemutai Ane to Zurui Imouto, initially reported the news, while asking people to help contribute. Later on, he posted an update, saying that Suzuki was safe. Kouta Matsuda (Ah! Warera ga Myao Shogun author) also assisted with the search, but later tweeted about receiving death threats, after some users confused him with Suzuki.
Kenya Suzuki is best known as the author and artist of Please Tell Me! Galko-chan manga. KADOKAWA’S Comic Walker started serializing it in 2014. The manga currently has 5 volumes and over 110 chapters. Suzuki also worked on anthologies, such as Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro one. K. Galko-chan is his only work to get an anime adaptation. Studio feel. animated the series, which aired in Winter 2016 season. The anime adaptation had 12 8-minute long episodes. A 28-minute long OVA focusing on a side-story also exists. Crunchyroll streamed the anime.
Seven Seas licensed the manga in English and describes the plot as:
Gyaruko-chan always speaks her mind, which may not be the wisest decision in all cases, but it’s never short of entertaining! Meet the exuberant and unbelievably busty high schooler, Gyaruko, as she traverses the ups and downs of adolescence with spirit and verve, alongside her best friends–the anti-social loner, Otako, and the unpredictably honest, Ojou.
Source: Kyodo, Asashi
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