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Elex Media Licenses Shin Kurosagi Kanketsu-hen, Onya no Ko Darling Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced last Friday that it has licensed Airi Sano's Onya no Ko Darling, and Takeshi Natsuhara and Kuromaru's Shin Kurosagi Kanketsu-hen manga. The publisher will release the first volume of Shin Kurosagi Kanketsu-hen, as well as the one volume of Onya no Ko Darling, on September 28.
Sano's Onya no Ko Darling centers on a girl named Ritsu. She is irritated and annoyed at Masahiro Kanzaki, a boy who goes to the same cram school as her, because he always seems to get higher grades. One day, Ritsu finds out that her cute best friend Kanna has someone she likes. Itching to know who the mystery person is, Ritsu tails Kanna one day, and soon enough sees Kanna and Masahiro with matching bracelets.
Sano published the manga in Shogakukan's Sho-Comi magazine in 2014. Shogakukan published the manga's one compiled book volume in October 2014. Elex Media previously published Sano's Suki Suki Daisuki Daikirai!! manga with the title Benci tapi Cinta in April 2015.
Natsuhara and Kuromaru's Kurosagi manga series focuses on Kurosaki, whose father was tricked by a shirosagi, a man who defrauds others. Having lost their family savings, the father murders Kurosaki's mother and sister before committing suicide himself. Since then, Kurosaki has studied to become a kurosagi, a swindler who only defrauds other swindlers. He is pursued by Tsurara Yoshikawa, a law student who dreams of becoming a prosecutor, but begins to fall in love with Kurosaki.
Natsuhara and Kuromaru serialized the first manga series Kurosagi in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday from 2003 to 2008, with 20 compiled book volumes. The next series, titled Shin Kurosagi, launched in Weekly Young Sunday, but switched to Big Comic Spirits after Young Sunday ceased publication in 2008. The sequel manga ran until 2012, with 18 compiled book volumes. Shin Kurosagi Kanketsu-hen began in 2012, and ended in 2013, with four compiled book volumes. The manga was adapted into a live-action television series in 2006.
Elex Media published all 18 volumes of Shin Kurosagi manga.
