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M&C! Licenses 5 New Manga for Late February

Indonesian publisher M&C! announced on Tuesday that it has licensed the following manga:

• Saki Aikawa's Is This Feeling Love (Kore ga Koi to Iu naraba, pictured at right)
• Mie Washio's If You Fall in Love in Our Cafe (Koi wo Suru nara Bokura no Cafe de)
• Kaoru Igarashi's Ijime Twisted Heart (Ijime Ibitsu na Kokoro)
• Erika Kurahashi's Brand Peace
• Takako Yamazaki's Preparations for Love (Junbichū.)

Is This Feeling Love centers on Sora, a girl who hates always being compared to her beautiful, intelligent, and perfect older sister. She purposefully entered a far away high school to try and distance herself from her sister, but there she meets Kataoka, a sadistic upperclassman.

Aikawa launched the manga in Shueisha's Margaret magazine in 2012, and ended it in the same year. Shueisha published two compiled book volumes for the series. M&C! will release the first and second volume simultaneously on February 24.

If You Fall in Love in Our Cafe centers on a tsundere girl who is searching for a part-time job to get some time away from her uncomfortably intimate childhood friend. Because she had only given the plan a cursory thought, she was having no luck, until she walks into a cafe to take a break, and informs them she needs a job.

Washio published the manga in Shogakukan's Betsucomi magazine in 2012. Shogakukan released the manga's one compiled book volume in the same year. M&C! will release the volume on February 24.

Ijime Twisted Heart contains four short manga. The title story focuses on a classroom where the students practice a game of "pretend bullying," and the target of bullying changes every week.

Igarashi began publishing the Ijime series in 2007 in Shogakukan's Ciao magazine. Ijime Twisted Heart is the 10th installment in the a series of short manga stories centering on themes of bullying. Igarashi published Ijime Twisted Heart in 2014. The series so far has 13 installments, with the latest being Ijime: Kokoro no Kizuato, published last year. The latest compiled book volume is Ijime: Karisome no Kyōshitsu, which Shogakukan published last June. One of the stories, Ijime: Ikenie no Kyōshitsu, was adapted into an OAV in 2012. M&C! published other manga in the series, including Ijime Memorial Selection, Ijime Light and Shadow, Ijime Silent Prison, Ijime Cold Class, Ijime If I Have Enough Courage, Ijime No Need to Cry, Ijime Undefeated Guts, Ijime Escape From Hell on Earth, and Ijime The Invisible Malice.

M&C! will release the volume on February 24.

Brand Peace centers on Mii Sarashina, who has just entered middle school but has no experience with men. She wants to get a boyfriend, but her new class is divided along gender lines. She ends up liking Yashiro from her class, but asking him out might prove to be trouble.

Kurahashi launched the manga in Shueisha's Ribon magazine in 2007, and concluded it in 2008. Shueisha published two compiled book volumes for the series. M&C! will publish the manga's first and second volumes on February 24.

Preparations for Love centers on Nissei Yamato, who can't find anything to occupy himself with, and so he coasts through his everyday life. He has friends, a part-time job (that he was recently fired from), and spends his time in the school's shōgi club sleeping. He's worried that life may just feel like this forever, until he meets Yasaki, a girl who becomes his natural rival. Suddenly, his life is upended.

Yamazaki launched the manga in Shogakukan's Flowers magazine in 2012, and ended it in 2014. Shogakukan published four compiled book volumes for the series. M&C! will publish the first volume on February 24.