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LDK's Ayu Watanabe Launches New Manga
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The August issue of Kodansha's Kiss magazine revealed on Wednesday that manga author Ayu Watanabe will launch a new manga titled Kokoro, Ai ni Arazu. (Kokoro is not in love.) in the magazine's next issue on July 25. The manga centers on Kokoro, a woman who is a bit feared by her younger co-workers, but ends up living with a younger bartender in her own apartment.
Watanabe launched the LDK manga in Bessatsu Friend in 2009, and ended it in August 2017. Kodansha published the manga's 24th and final compiled book volume in October 2017. Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in North America. Watanabe launched a sequel to the manga titled LDK Pink in Bessatsu Friend in February 2022, and the manga is serialized irregularly.
LDK inspired a live-action film starring Ayame Gōriki and Kento Yamazaki in April 2014. LDK Hitotsu Yane no Shita, "Suki" ga Futatsu (Two Loves Under One Roof), a new live-action film adaptation of the manga with a different cast, opened in Japan in March 2019.
Source: Kiss August issue
