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M&C! Licenses Inio Asano's Solanin Manga for Indonesia

Indonesian publisher M&C! announced on Saturday that it has licensed the Solanin, Full Bloom Cheekiness (Namaiki Zakari.), Editor Editor, and The Binding Princess (Kukurihime) manga.

Inio Asano's Solanin manga centers around Meiko and Taneda, a couple who graduated from college two years ago, with no real goals. While both are employed, both feel something lacking in their lives. Taneda decides to take his band seriously and promote his music. Meiko quits her job, while Taneda decides to write his first real song. When tragedy strikes, their new directionless life will take an unexpected turn.

Asano launched the manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday Magazine in 2005, where it ran until 2006. Shogakukan published both compiled book volumes of the manga in Japan. The manga was adapted into a live-action film in 2010.

M&C! did not announce a release date for the manga.

Miyuki Mitsubachi's Namaiki Zakari. manga centers on Yuki, the manager of a basketball club, who has a crush on the team captain and her upperclassman, Kido. But Yuki is shocked when she finds out that Kido suddenly gets a girlfriend. She cries at her misfortune in a room at school, but is discovered by another upperclassman and basketball team member, Naruse, who falls in love with her. Yuki tells Naruse to keep quiet about her secret so she can maintain her cool image, but it proves difficult when she and Naruse are in the same club.

Mitsubachi published the manga as a one-shot Hakusensha's The Hana to Yume magazine in 2013, before launching it as a full-fledged series in Hana to Yume magazine in the same year. Hakusensha published the manga's fifth volume on September 18.

M&C! will release the manga's first Indonesian volume on October 21.

Nasato Ekuni's Editor Editor manga centers around the comedic relationship between Yuuki Morisaki and Keiji Hisayama. Yuuki is an up-and-coming manga creator still in junior high school, who has been the talk of many publishers due to already having a slew of awards under her belt. Keiji Hisayama is a new editor for a publisher that cannot stand a genius.

Ekuni published the manga in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume Online website in 2013. Hakusensha published the manga's first and only compiled book volume in May 2014.

M&C! will release the manga's first Indonesian volume on October 21.

Haru Himeno and Yuma Mizuki's Kukurihime manga centers around Kukuri, a priestess born with a twin sister, also named Kukuri (but with different kanji). They are only the latest in a long and legendary line of cursed twins. The protagonist Kukuri escapes from her village of Himekami, and for 11 years, has worked as a priestess in training under the priest Kamiya Mikado in Kandani shrine. But when her twin arrives at the shrine and harms priest Mikado, she decides to go back to her village, heeding the call of her twin sister who never left, to end their sad legend.

Himeno published the manga as an entry in the Everystar manga contest in 2012. After winning the prize, Futabasha began publishing the manga as a series in 2013, with Mizuki drawing the art. Himeno and Mizuki concluded the series in 2014. Futabasha published the manga's third and last compiled book volume on January 22.

M&C! will release the manga's first Indonesian volume on October 21.

[Via Kaori Nusantara]