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M&C! Licenses The Deepest Blue, 'I Won't Ever Like You, My Senpai' Manga

Indonesian publisher M&C! announced on Wednesday that it has licensed Hatsuharu's I Won't Ever Like You, My Senpai (Suki ni Naranai yo, Senpai), Ema Toyama's Simple Love (Jimikoi), and Saya Fuyume's The Deepest Blue (Saihate no Ao) manga.

M&C! will release the first volume of I Won't Ever Like You, My Senpai, all two volumes of The Deepest Blue, and the one volume of Simple Love on October 12.

I Won't Ever Like You, My Senpai centers on Iku, who is a junior high student at the beginning of the story. She attends a cultural festival at a high school and instantly falls in love with an art club student there named Sōki. She immediately resolves to enroll in the same school for high school, and join the same club. When she gets there, however, she finds that the upperclassman she admires has turned into a very different, dangerous person. Very soon, she's had it with associating with him, but is at a loss as to what to do.

Hatsuharu launched the manga in Kodansha's Bessatsu Friend magazine in March 2015, and ended it on June 13. Kodansha published the manga's fourth and final compiled book volume on July 13.

M&C! previously published Hatsuharu's I Wake Up With Your Kiss (Kimi no Kiss de Me o Samasu) manga in August 2015.

Simple Love collects four manga one-shot stories that Toyama published in Kodansha's Aria, Nakayoshi, and Nakayoshi Lovely magazines in 2014. The title story centers on Wakana, a flashy girl who likes plain, normal boys to balance her out. When she meets Kagano, she's convinced that he is that boy. And to her surprise, when she confesses to him, he says that he will think about it. But Wakana's flashiness may still be her undoing.

Aside from the title story, the book contains the one-shot manga "Columbus no Yūtsu," "Mimimoto ni Kimi no Koe," and "Gojōzaka-sanchi no Kirei na Himitsu."

Kodansha published the book in November 2014.

The Deepest Blue's story begins at "Sphere," a research lab located in a remote area. There, scientists work to train "Blue Children," children granted special powers. But an accident destroyed the laboratory three years ago. The story centers on Haru, a boy living with his guardian Kiriyū. Haru lost his memories after a traffic accident three years ago, but when a school field trip takes him and his friends across an abandoned laboratory, he discovers the secret life that he had before the "accident."

Fuyume launched the manga in Ichijnsha's Zero-Sum Ward magazine in 2014, and ended it in July 2015. Kodansha published the manga's second and final compiled book volume in August 2015.