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Elex Media Licenses Million Girl, Les Misérables, Blushing Love Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on Wednesday that it has licensed the Million Girl, Les Misérables, and Blushing Love (Sugoku, Akaku, Shitai) manga series. Elex Media published the first volumes of each manga on Wednesday.
Kotori Momoyuki's Million Girl manga centers on Sachi Kohaku, a rich girl who lost her parents as a child and was taken in by her uncle. At her school Teitō Academy, she receives an invitation to a "money game" gambling enterprise by Reon Shirogane. With little interest in gambling, Sachi disregards the offer, but comes home that day to find that her uncle has driven the company he was managing bankrupt, and that she must produce 100 million yen as security for a loan. Desperate, she returns to Shirogane, intent on playing the "money game" to gather the money she needs.
Momoyuki (Ōjisama no Tsukurikata, Pink Innocent) launched the manga in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine in 2009, and ended it in 2010. Kodansha published three compiled book volumes for the manga.
Takahiro Arai's Les Misérables manga retells the classic Victor Hugo novel of the same name. In France, former prisoner Jean Valjean remakes his life as a factory owner. He becomes involved in the affairs of a woman named Fantine, whom Valjean's efforts to protect brand him an enemy of the law once more. He takes the now-dead Fantine's daughter Cosette with him to Paris to escape the law, pursued by the dogged Inspector Javert, who can see Valjean as nothing more than a petty criminal deserving punishment.
Arai (Cirque du Freak) launched the manga in Shogakukan's Gessan magazine in 2013. Shogakukan published the manga's sixth compiled book volume on October 9.
Yakko Kaga's Blushing Love (Sugoku, Akaku, Shitai) manga collects five one-shot romance manga written and drawn by Kaga. Besides the collection's title story these manga include, "Micha Dame!" (Don't Look!), "Mōken ni Chūi" (Beware of Wild Dog), "Han Sode Love" (Half Sleeve Love), and "Ikura Dashitemo Kimi ga Hoshii" (No Matter How Much Money You Put Out, I Still Like You).
Shogakukan published the one-shot manga collection in Japan in May 2012.
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