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Elex Media Licenses One-Punch Man, Sonna Mirai wa Uso de Aru Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on Thursday that it has licensed the following manga:
- ONE and Yuusuke Murata's One-Punch Man
- Coharu Sakuraba's Sonna Mirai wa Uso de Aru
- Ai Morinaga's Nanpū - Jitensha no Tabikoi
- Seiko Nakamura's Black Heart Star
- Hiroshi Fujimoto's Dobinson Hyōryūgi and Chinpui
- Keisuke Motoe's Hanamura Nagisa no Keisan Note
Elex Media will begin releasing all seven manga sometime between August 10 and 16.
The One-Punch Man manga adapts ONE's original web comic of the same name, with art by Murata. The original web comic debuted in 2009, while Murata's remake debuted in 2012.
The series revolves around the titular super hero who has trained so hard that his hair has fallen out, and who can overcome any enemy with one punch. However, because he is so strong, he has become bored and frustrated with winning all his battles so easily.
The manga inspired a television anime adaptation that premiered last October. The manga was nominated for an Eisner Award last year, and a Harvey Award this year.
Sakuraba's Sonna Mirai wa Uso de Aru manga revolves around two classmates: Akane Satō and Mitsuki Ōhashi. Akane can immediately tell a if someone is lying, and Mitsuki can see a little into someone's future when she meets their eyes. By chancing a glance at Akane through a mirror, Mitsuki knows that Akane will end up marrying their classmate Takayama. But as soon as Mitsuki knows it, the future begins to change. Regretting what she instigated, Mitsuki desperately tries to correct the future to the way she saw it without Akane knowing.
Sakuraba launched the manga in the first issue of Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in September 2009, and ended it on July 9. Kodansha published the fifth and final compiled book volume of the manga on the same day. Sakuraba has published several manga that were later adapted into anime, including Minami-ke and Kyo no Gononi.
Morinaga's Nanpū - Jitensha no Tabikoi is a tie-in manga with the similarly titled 2014 film Nanpū. Both the film and the manga's plot center on journalist Aiko, who heads to Taiwan to cover a cycling competition. There, she meets Tonton, the daughter of the bicycle rental shop she visits, as well as Yū, a handsome but silent cyclist. Together, on bikes, they head to Taiwan's Sun Moon Lake.
Morinaga launched the manga in Hakusensha's LaLa Melody Online web manga site, and published the manga in a book in 2014.
Nakamura's Black Heart Star centers on a girl named Sora. Although she lives a normal life, she dreams of being a magical girl. She is abducted by two handsome men, who will use her to power the awakening of an evil witch, the leader of their group.
Nakamura published the manga one-shot in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine in 2013. Hakusensha published the manga in a book in December 2013.
Fujimoto's Dobinson Hyōryūgi centers on the titular Dobinson, a pod alien boy who meets with an accident during a trip, and is forced to make an emergency landing on Earth. To him, Earth is just another untamed planet on the edge of known space. With his advanced tools crafted from mysterious science, Dobinson begins his life on Earth.
Fujimoto serialized the series in Ie no Hikari Kyōkai's Kodomo Ie no Hikari magazine from 1971 to 1972.
Chinpui centers on Eri, a tomboy who is visited by the alien Chimpui to inform her that she has been chosen to be the bride of the first prince of the planet Mahl. Chimpui acts as her manager as she is tutored on royal life.
Fujimoto serialized the manga in Fujiko Fujio Land from 1985 to 1991. Fujimoto planned 60 chapters for the series, but never finished the last two chapters before he passed away in 1996. The manga inspired a 112 episode television anime series by Shin-ei Animation that aired in TV Asahi from 1989 to 1991. The manga also inspired the Chinpui: Eri-sama Katsudō Daishashin anime film in 1990.
Fujimoto, whose author pseudonym is Fujiko F. Fujio, is perhaps better known as the other half of the duo that created the iconic Doraemon manga. He created the manga alongside Motoo Abiko, and they worked under the pseudonym of Fujiko Fujio. When the duo split up, Abiko took the pseudonym Fujiko Fujio (A), and Fujimoto took the pseudonym Fujiko Fujio (F), later renamed to Fujiko F. Fujio. He passed away in 1996. Shogakukan reissued Dobinson Hyōryūgi and Chinpui as part of its "The Complete Works of Fujiko F. Fujio" line in 2010-2011. Elex Media also released Fujimoto's Jungle Kurobe and Mira・cle 1 manga on June 1, as well as his Pajama Man manga on June 8.
Motoe's Hanamura Nagisa no Keisan Note is based on Aito Aoyagi's mystery novel series of the same name. The series is set in a Japan where mathematics has been removed from the regular curriculum. Opposing this is the group of math terrorists known as the "Black Triangles," led by Doctor Pythagoras. The police, who are all unskilled in math, are supported by a second-year middle school genius named Nagisa Hanamura. Nagisa sets out to solve a case of serial killings that the Black Triangles are purported to have carried out in Nagano.
Motoe launched the manga in Kodansha's Shonen Sirius magazine in 2013. Kodansha published the manga's eighth compiled book volume on June 9. The original novel series by Aoyagi debuted in 2009, with art by Hajime Kirino. Aoyagi published the novel series' seventh book last August.
