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Kaori Tsurutani's Arrogance and Virtue Manga Listed as Ending in 3rd Volume
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Tsurutani (BL Metamorphosis) launched the manga adaptation on Asahi Shimbun Publications' Shōsetsu TRIPPER literary magazine's website web TRIPPER in June 2024. Asahi Shimbun Publications published the second volume on June 20.
The novel centers on Kakeru Nishizawa and Mami Sakaniwa, two people who find each other through a dating app, and decide soon after to get engaged. After their engagement, Mami suddenly disappears. In trying to find her, Kakeru must confront a side of Mami's past that he might not have wanted to know.
Tsujimura published the novel in tankōbon format in March 2019, and in bunko format in September 2022.
The novel inspired a live-action film adaptation that opened in Japan in September 2024.
Tsujimura penned the original novel of A School Frozen in Time, which Naoshi Arakawa adapted into a manga. Kodansha USA Publishing releases the manga in English.
Tsujimura also penned the novels Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Yami-hara, and Anime Supremacy!. Doubleday released the Lonely Castle in the Mirror novel in English in April 2022. The novel inspired both a manga adaptation in 2019, and an anime film adaptation in 2022. Seven Seas is releasing the manga in English, and GKIDS released the film theatrically and on home video in 2023. Yen Press is releasing the Yami-hara novel in English. Vertical released Tsujimura's Anime Supremacy! novel in English in October 2017, and the novel inspired a live-action film adaptation in May 2022.
Tsurutani launched the BL Metamorphosis (Metamorphose no Engawa) manga on Kadokawa's Comic Newtype website in November 2017, and ended it in October 2020. Kadokawa published the manga's fifth and final volume in January 2021 along with Tsurutani's 2007-2015 short story collection. Seven Seas Entertainment has released the manga in English.
The manga topped the list of manga for female readers in the 2019 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook. The manga ranked sixth in the 12th Manga Taisho in 2019, and also earned the New Face Award in the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in 2019.
The manga inspired a live-action film adaptation in 2022.
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