Creator of Love Hina is gearing up for a run at Japan’s upper parliament house to protect freedom of expression.
Ken Akamatsu
“The days of quietly drawing whatever you like are already over”
Robul Hoque, a 39-year-old resident of Middlesbrough, England, was recently given a suspended sentence of nine months in prison for possession of child pornography when investigators found “manga” drawings of schoolgirls on his computer. The sentence is suspended so long as Hoque follows the court’s guidelines for two years, but manga artist Ken Akamatsu (Love Hina, Negima! Magister Negi Magi) disapproved of the conviction and reacted to the news on Twitter.