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Apr 1, 4:16 AM
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Erika Ikeda, known professionary as Nekokurage, has been indicted for tax evasion by Fukuoka Regional Taxation Bureau. Manga likely cancelled.
Apr 1, 4:52 AM
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You had me. I was sad for a moment, when I realised it has to be an April Fools thing.

It's an April Fool joke, right?
Apr 1, 5:39 AM
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I had to google this and nothings coming up so it best be an April fools!
Apr 1, 6:15 AM
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MDR- said:

It's an April Fool joke, right?

Nope, it appears to be real. There’s no reason to believe the manga is cancelled, though. The artist has apologized and clarified on twitter that they’re working with a tax accountant to figure out how to fix the issue.

https://twitter.com/nekokurage_/status/1774734767893942341
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Apr 1, 8:30 AM
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Unless the author is expected to be serving jail time, there is no particular reason to expect the series to be canceled.
Apr 1, 6:01 PM
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Reply to Ri-chan
MDR- said:

It's an April Fool joke, right?

Nope, it appears to be real. There’s no reason to believe the manga is cancelled, though. The artist has apologized and clarified on twitter that they’re working with a tax accountant to figure out how to fix the issue.

https://twitter.com/nekokurage_/status/1774734767893942341
Artist seem to be in denial. She's been indicted for tax evasion. That means Tax Agency has concluded that what she did was intentional and malicious after investigating her. Last year, every indictment for tax evasion lead to prosecution. And every prosecution for tax evasion resulted in conviction. She is getting convicted for tax evasion, there is no way to fix that. The manga is getting cancelled.
Apr 1, 9:27 PM
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kecri said:
Artist seem to be in denial. She's been indicted for tax evasion. That means Tax Agency has concluded that what she did was intentional and malicious after investigating her. Last year, every indictment for tax evasion lead to prosecution. And every prosecution for tax evasion resulted in conviction. She is getting convicted for tax evasion, there is no way to fix that. The manga is getting cancelled.

Even if everything else you’re saying is accurate, which it likely isn’t, just because the artist is unable to continue the series doesn’t mean it wouldn’t continue. For a series this successful they’d probably hire a new artist to take over the adaptation.

But in all likelihood they will get some fines, at most a suspended sentence. They were indicted over a month ago (Feb 29th) and it was only made public by people looking through paper work from the tax board. This is not the big scandal you seem to think it is.

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47 MILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 31, 11:41 PM
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^ That’s a ton 😳 At least the LN is the source material

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That’s about what 300,000 dollars isn’t it
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^^

Phew, right. The manga's nice to have with all the added visual material. But whatever happens to it, not the real deal and not that devastating. LN is where its at.
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