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Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer Manga Gets Spinoff

This year's November issue of Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine published on Friday a spinoff of Satoshi Mizukami's Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer (Hoshi no Samidare) manga titled "Sono Ato no Hero" (The Hero Afterwards). Ichiri Seto wrote the 37-page spinoff, and Mizukami supervised the work.

The spinoff follows Shinonome Mikazuki after a climactic battle. While training, Mikazuki meets a young boy who wants to join a gang and who does not believe that there are heroes in real life.

The manga inspired an anime that premiered on July 8 on MBS and TBS' "Animeism" programming block. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs, and it is also streaming an English dub.

Nobuaki Nakanishi (Koihime Musō, Mahōjin Guru Guru, Kasimasi - Girl Meets Girl) is directing the anime. Original author Mizukami is credited for series composition, alongside Yūichirō Momose (My First Girlfriend is a Gal, Infinite Dendrogram, So I'm a Spider, So What?). NAZ is animating the series with production cooperation by Jumondo. Hajime Hatakeyama (animation director for No Guns Life, Sing "Yesterday" for Me) is the character designer, and Takatsugu Wakabayashi (Majin Bone, PriPri Chii-chan!!) is composing the music. Other staff members include Minoru Okochi as art director, Ryūsuke Araki as color designer, Toshikazu Kuno as director of photography, and Yuichi Imaizumi as sound director at Sonilude. Rina Koguchi is in charge of editing and Yasuyuki Konno is in charge of sound effects.

Mizukami previously indicated the anime will cover the entire manga "until the end."

Mizukami (Spirit Circle, Planet With) launched the manga in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine in April 2005, and ended it in 2010. JManga once carried the manga, and Seven Seas Entertainment later licensed and released the manga in print in North America. Crunchyroll also published the manga digitally. Crunchyroll describes the manga's story:

Asamiya Yuuhi was an ordinary college student... until the day a lizard showed up and asked him to help save the world. The next thing he knows, he's been given a ring and special powers, plus an enemy stalking him. However, he's saved in the nick of time by the Girl Next Door, Samidare, who's planning... WHAT kinds of things?! This is an unconventional story that mixes ordinary life with the bizarre and supernatural!

Sources: Young King Ours' Twitter account, Comic Natalie