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Elex Media Licenses Terajima's Ace of Diamond Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on Monday that it has licensed Yūji Terajima's Ace of Diamond (Daiya no A) baseball manga. Elex Media is currently editing the first volume's translation, and will publish the first volume in December.
The story of Yūji Terajima's original manga begins with eijun Sawamura, a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Kōshien championships through hard work and determination.
Terajima launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2006, and the manga won the shōnen category of the 34th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2010. Kodansha published the manga's 47th volume in Japan on August 17. The manga was adapted into a 75-episode television anime series that premiered in October 2013. It got a second season, which premiered on April 6, and is currently airing.
[Via Kaori Nusantara]
