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Girls' High's Oshima Launches Daishinyū Manga on June 4
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
High School Girls manga creator Towa Oshima revealed on her Twitter account on Tuesday that she will launch the Daishinyū (Best Friends) manga series in the July issue of Shonengahosha's Young King Bull magazine on June 4.
The story will center on two junior high school girls who first met in elementary school. They do not get along or like each other whatsoever. Despite that, a bond strangely develops between them.
Oshima and and Shibukichi Chabashira launched the Shitamachi Sentō Kazoku (Shitamachi Bath House Family) manga in Shonengahosha's Young King magazine in April 2017. The series ended in the fourth compiled book volume, which shipped on October 22.
Oshima launched the Joshi Kōsei Girls-High manga in Futabasha's Weekly Manga Action magazine in 2001 and ended its first run in Comic High! in 2007. She then started Joshi Kōsei Girls-Live, a sequel set several years later, in the inaugural issue of Futabasha's Comic Sumomo magazine in 2010 before moving that series to Comic High! (after Comic Sumomo ended publication in 2013). Oshima launched the second run of Joshi Kōsei Girls-High in March 2014 in Comic High!, and ended it in 2016.
Comics One licensed Joshi Kōsei Girls-High in 2004, and DrMaster published all nine volumes of the manga under the title High School Girls between 2005 and 2008. Jmanga also hosted the first volume of the series before ceasing operations. The manga inspired a television anime series in 2006, and Media Blasters licensed the series under the title Girl's High for North America that same year.
Source: Towa Oshima's Twitter account
