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Elex Media Licenses Secret, Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on Wednesday that it has licensed Yoshiki Tonogai's Secret manga and Nozomi Uda's Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge manga. It has set a tentative release date for the first volumes of both manga on March 9.
Secret focuses on six people who survive a bus crash, but wake up together as part of an elaborate and cruel game. A voice tells them that among the six, three are murderers. The murderers must find a way to atone for their crime within one week, or details of their crimes will be released to the police.
Tonogai launched the manga in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan magazine in 2013, and ended it in 2014. Square Enix published two compiled book volumes for the manga.
Tonogai previously published the manga Judge in Monthly Shōnen Gangan from 2010 to 2012. A live-action film adaptation of Judge was released in 2013.
The Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge youth comedy manga follows the ever-listless Tanaka and his taciturn classmate Ōta, who can't leave Tanaka alone.
Uda launched the series on the Gangan Online website in 2013, and Uda published the manga's 55th chapter on November 12. Square Enix published the manga's fifth compiled volume on November 21, and the company also published the "volume 5.5" official fanbook on the same day. The manga has more than 1 million copies in print.
The manga will get a television anime adaptation, which will premiere in April. Shinya Kawamo (.hack//GIFT, Kokoro Connect, Non Non Biyori) will direct the anime at SILVER LINK, and Akemi Omode (Getbackers, Kyo kara Maoh!, Tales of the Abyss) will oversee the scripts. Haruko Iizuka (Umi Monogatari, Ōkami-san & Her Seven Companions, Little Busters!) will design the characters for animation, while Kusanagi will provide the art direction. Hiromi Mizutani (Sunday Without God, Non Non Biyori, Shomin Sample) will compose the music.
