On November 21 the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced that Nobuhiro Watsuki, manga artist/author and original creator of popular anime series Rurouni Kenshin, is under investigation for child pornography charges.
The Rurouni Kenshin Hokkaido Arc, which is being serialized in Jump Square, will be put on hiatus as of the December 4 issue.”
Nobuhiro Watsuki tells police “I liked girls between the ages of upper elementary school students to about the second year of junior high.”
Elementary school lasts six years in the Japanese school system, making second-year junior high students either 13 or 14 years old.