The Apothecary Diaries' Manga Artist Has Been Sentenced To 10 Months In Prison for tax evasion
The Apothecary Diaries' Manga Artist Has Been Sentenced To 10 Months In Prison for tax evasion
The Fukuoka District Court handed down a verdict to the manga artist Erika Ikeda, whose pen name is Nekokurage who is known for illustrating manga, The
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Oh, anime news? That’s neat. Lemmy isn’t huge on discussing media of any sort.
…Manga Artist
It was child pornography
…Has Been Sentenced
I knew it. That industry needs to be burned to the ground. It’s endemic and utterly unacceptable. I’m glad they caught them.
…To 10 Months In Prison
A slap on the wrist like that samurai artist? How can Japan tolerate this?
…for tax evasion
Oh. Well now I feel foolish. Good thing no one was privy to my insane leaps in logic.
69 3 ReplyHonestly, finding out it was tax evasion and not CP is actually kinda relieving.
51 1 Reply"Thank God! I mean, shit, but..."
8 0 ReplyThought you were gonna say "refreshing".
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Dude I went through the exact same thought process
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Something people are missing just based on the headline is that this is a "suspended sentence." So, there is a period of three years where, as long as she doesn't commit any similar offenses, she will have been considered as having served her time without actually going to prison.
33 0 ReplyTIL You can get jailed for tax evasion in Japan
EDIT Okay this concerned deliberately taking away ¥47mil (€281k / $305k) from the government, maybe that was justified.
15 1 ReplyBased 😌
I always felt that that writer was cool.
Too bad they were caught 🥲
9 1 ReplyThe person who was caught is the artist of the manga adaptation and not the writer of the original light novel.
(Also both the ln-writer and the manga-artist are female.)
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Based as fuck uwu
7 0 ReplyPlay stupid games, win stupid prizes
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