Shogakukan’s Manga ONE editorial department issued a statement and an apology on Friday regarding manga creator Shōichi Yamamoto, after the editorial department had allowed Yamamoto to publish a new manga on the service under a penname after he had been arrested and convicted of a sex crime. ……

The sad thing is, the author became writer of a manga with an artist drawing it, and the artist was not informed of the writer’s past offence. Now this manga is pulled from distribution and the artist is caught in this mess through no fault of their own.

Multiple mangakas has halted or pulled their works from the Manga One app in protest.