The Chara Chara Makiart unit was serializing the Harapeko Penguin Cafe and Tom to Jerry: Nanairo manga in Nakayoshi.
Publisher Kodansha announced on Tuesday that the Kyoto District Court has found a manga creator in the Chara Chara Makiart creative unit guilty of sexual assault on a female elementary school student between spring and summer of last year.
The defendant, a 45-year-old man, was sentenced on November 25 to three years in prison, but the sentence is suspended for five years.
The former launched in Nakayoshi in February 2019, while the latter launched just recently on August 3.