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Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store Offers Chance to Appear in Manga
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Hashimoto and Matsukoma's Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store is holding a Twitter campaign to give fans a chance to appear in the manga. The contest is marking the release of the series' seventh compiled book volume, which shipped on Thursday. The three sevens in the release date and volume number are a reference to the name of the fictional convenience store 777 (pronounced "three seven") in the manga.
To participate, fans must use the campaign hashtag on Twitter to post an image of a panel or page of the manga they like. Each person can participate only once. The person whose entry is retweeted the most times will win the right to appear in the manga as a new part-time worker at 777 or a customer at the store.
The manga held a similar Twitter campaign in February.
The original comedy manga follows a male part-time late-night convenience store worker named Matsukoma, and the new part-time worker he trains named Tomoharu Nii, nicknamed Nietzsche-sensei. Tomoharu is a university student in the school's Buddhism department. When an angry customer screams at Tomoharu, "Customers are gods!," he replies, "God is dead." The manga follows the part-time worker life of Matsukoma and Tomoharu, the latter of whom continuously baffles his customers and co-workers at the convenience store with his odd ways.
Matsukoma and Hashimoto launched the manga in Monthly Comic Gene in August 2013 as an adaptation of a series of popular Twitter posts chronicling real-life exploits of convenience store staffers. The manga inspired a live-action television series in 2016, and Crunchyroll streamed the series. The manga also inspired a drama CD, which Kadokawa released in February 2015.
Source: Comic Natalie
