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M&C! Licenses Extra Girl, Life at the Monster Apartment Manga

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
1st volumes of both series slated for December 30 release

Indonesian publisher M&C! announced on Thursday that it has licensed Michiyo Akaishi's Extra Girl manga, as well as Hinowa Kōzuki and Waka Miyama's Life at the Monster Apartment (Yōkai Apāto no Yūga na Nichijō) manga. M&C! will launch both manga series with their first compiled book volumes on December 30.

The Extra Girl manga begins when famous idol Shion Suzuka dies. Although it is ruled as a suicide, Shion's twin sister Kuon suspects that somebody murdered her sister. She enters the entertainment world as an actress for extra roles, and makes contact with Ryūto Fuji, her sister's young lover. Together, they continue to uncover a dark, far-reaching conspiracy in the entertainment world, surrounding a drug cartel, and an individual known only as Black Onyx. The nature of Kuon and Ryūto's relationship also slowly begins to change.

Akaishi (P.A.: Private Actress, Alexander Daiou - Tenjou no Oukoku) launched the manga in Shogakukan's Anekei Petit Comic magazine in May 2010, and ended it in June 2014. Shogakukan published the manga's fourth and final compiled book volume in October 2014.

The Life at the Monster Apartment manga adapts Kōzuki's Yōkai Apāto no Yūga na Nichijō light novel series. Both the original light novels and manga center on Yūshi Inaba, a boy whose parents died early in his life. He moved in to his uncle's house, but resolved to move in to a dormitory in high school. Those plans were dashed when his planned dormitory burned down. He eventually finds an apartment with cheap 25,000 yen rent. Yūshi finds out too late that the apartment is home to supernatural creatures such as ghosts, yōkai, and mononoke, and his daily life becomes embroiled in the eccentric apartment.

Miyama (Rocket Starter) launched the manga in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine in 2011. Kodansha published the manga's 11th compiled book volume on November 9. Kōzuki launched the original light novel series in 2003, and concluded it in 2009, with 10 volumes and one side-story.


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