Sq. Enix has confirmed that they haven’t any plans to serialize The Pharmacists’ Diaries manga regardless of the current conviction of its creator, Nekokurage. This was revealed to ITmedia NEWS on July 24, 2024.
“We’re not contemplating ceasing serialization of ‘The Apothecary Diaries’.”
The assertion got here after the Fukuoka District Courtroom discovered the manga’s artist, Nekokurage, responsible of violating the earnings tax regulation that very same day.
Nonetheless, it has not been specified whether or not the manga will go on hiatus or not.
The Fukuoka District Courtroom sentenced the artist to 10 months in jail, suspended for 3 years, and fined him 11 million yen.
The courtroom discovered Nekokurage responsible of failing to report roughly 260 million yen in earnings from 2019 to 2021, ensuing within the artist evading roughly 47 million yen in earnings taxes. The artist did not file tax returns by the deadline, resulting in the fees of tax evasion.
Decide Takeda identified that Ikeda’s manga all of the sudden grew to become standard and earned her a big earnings, however that she put her work and private life forward of assembly her tax obligations.
Though the artist had paid the total quantity, together with any penalties, she was persistently late in submitting her tax returns, combining a number of years of returns into one.
She continued to take action regardless of her editor and the unique writer of The Apothecary Diaries urging her to honor her tax obligations.
The Pharmacists’ Diaries manga adaptation by Itsuki Nanao and illustrated by Nekokurage started within the sixth challenge of Sq. Enix’s Month-to-month Huge Gangan, launched on Could 25, 2017. Sq. Enix has collected the chapters into particular person tankobon volumes.
The primary half was printed on September 25, 2017. As of March 25, 2024, 13 components have been printed.
Supply: ITmedia Information, Livedoor Information
