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Tsuredure Children Creator's Latest Manga Hits Its Mark Online

Toshiya Wakabayashi, the creator of the recently ended romantic comedy manga Tsuredure Children is publishing a web manga that's winning scores of fans online.

Kanako's Life as an Assassin follows the titular Kanako, a former office lady that becomes an assassin by accident. Wakabayashi is publishing the manga on Twitter and via their pixivFANBOX account. The debut chapter was published on October 28 and amassed over 115,000 retweets and 317,000 likes. Wakabayashi quickly posted the chapter again, this time in English, with all the pun jokes translated.

Kanako leaves her toxic workplace but finds herself in an interview to become an assassin...and they even have a 401k?

The manga has three chapters online so far and Wakabayashi compiled the chapters into a 28-page dōjinshi. The dōjin was sold at this year's Comitia event on November 25.

The four-panel Tsuredure Children manga is dedicated "to those of you who can't say 'I love you.'" The manga chronicles a series of short school romance stories in an omnibus format.

Wakabayashi launched the manga online in October 2012, and then also began serializing it with new material in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2015. Kodansha published the 11th compiled book volume on March 16. Kodansha Comics is releasing the manga digitally in English.

The manga inspired an anime that premiered last July. Crunchyroll streamed the series with English subtitles as it aired, and Funimation streamed an English dub. Each episode is 15 minutes long.

Source: Toshiya Wakabayashi's Twitter account

Thanks to Kim Pham for the news tip