Overview
- On Feb. 27, the Manga One editorial department suspended online distribution of the serialized manga '常人仮面' ('Jojin Kamen') and stopped shipments of its collected volumes.
- Shogakukan apologized, stating the author should not have been hired and acknowledging failures in its selection and verification processes, with a direct apology to the victim.
- The Sapporo District Court on Feb. 20 ordered the credited author, 一路一, to pay ¥11 million in damages in a suit brought by a former student alleging sexual violence.
- The author is a former private high‑school teacher in Hokkaido who was arrested in 2020, received a summary fine, and saw his earlier serialization '堕天作戦' ended at that time.
- Despite the 2020 case and a civil suit filed in July 2022, a new serialization began on Manga One in December 2022 under a different name, changing from 山本章一 to 一路一.