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Shining Rose Media to Publish Zero's Familiar Novels in Indonesia
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Shining Rose Media announced last Friday that it has licensed late author Noboru Yamaguchi's alternate-world fantasy light novel series Zero's Familiar (Zero no Tsukaima) light novel series. The publisher is also offering a preview of the novel's first chapter.
The series centers around a young witch named Louise Francoise le blanc, although her ineptitude in magic makes her more commonly known as "Louise the Zero" in her magical academy. Like all witches and wizards, she must summon a familiar that will serve her for life, but "fails" when she instead summons Saito, a teenage Japanese boy. Now stuck together because of their magical bond, both Louise and Saito blunder into various adventures, often involving classmates, while trying to figure out their situation.
Yamaguchi passed away in 2013 before finishing the series, although according to publisher Media Factory, he dictated the remaining plot of the series, including its ending, from his sickbed and entrusted it to the editors. Sou Yurugi, editor-in-chief of Kadokawa's (Media Factory) MF Bunko J imprint (under which the series was published) announced last June that the light novel series will continue, and MF Bunko J published a new 21st volume for the series last Thursday, written by an as-yet unnamed ghostwriter, but with Eiji Usatsuka returning for the novel art.
The 21st volume is the first volume of the series that MF Bunko J has published in five years since the 20th volume's release in February 2011. Before passing away, Yamaguchi had planned 22 novels for the series. Zero no Tsukaima F, the fourth and final television anime series adaptation of the novels, premiered in 2012. Elex Media Komputindo publishes the manga adaptation of the novels in Indonesia.
[Via Kaori Nusantara]
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