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'I See Your Face, Turned Away' Manga Returns from Hiatus, Ends in Next Chapter

The January 2026 issue of Kodansha's Bessatsu Friend magazine revealed on Friday that Rumi Ichinohe's I See Your Face, Turned Away (Kimi no Yokogao o Miteita) manga will end in its next chapter in the magazine's next issue on January 13. The manga also just returned on Friday from its hiatus.

The manga went on hiatus in September 2024 due to production reasons. The scheduled early 2025 release of the manga's fifth compiled book volume was also postponed.

Kodansha USA Publishing licensed and publishes the manga in English, and describes the story:

From the creator of My Sweet Girl comes a new manga about four teenagers and their four stories of unrequited love. When you don't want to lose a friendship but long for something more, the only thing you can do is gaze at your beloved's face, turned away...

One might call Hikari extraordinarily ordinary. One day, she takes up a new hobby--imagining what a romance would be like between her pretty friend Mari and the cute guy in their class, Otani. It's all in harmless fun, until the roles start to get tangled in Hikari's mind. Does she really have to be just the best friend in this love story? And just who is on Otani's mind when his eyes drift? 

Ichinohe launched the manga in Bessatsu Friend in April 2022. Kodansha published the manga's first volume in September 2022, and the fourth volume in August 2024.

The manga was nominated in Kodansha's 48th annual Manga Awards in 2024.

Ichinohe launched the My Sweet Girl (Kimi wa Kawaii Onna no Ko) manga in Bessatsu Friend in 2015, and ended it in February 2021. Kodansha published the manga's 13th and final volume in April 2021. Kodansha USA Publishing published the manga in English.

Source: Bessatsu Friend January 2026 issue