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M&C! Licenses Please Love Me, Cactus Girl Manga

Indonesian publisher M&C! announced last week that it has licensed Yuki Morita's Don't Fall in Love with My Teacher (Sensei ni wa Koi Shinai!?), Yū and Yukie Sasaki's Please Love Me (Suki wa Watashi ni Kudasai), Kujira Anan's My Alien Lover (Boku wa Uchūjin ni Koi o Shita.), and Idumi Kirihara's Cactus Girl (Saboten no Musume) manga. It will ship Don't Fall in Love with My Teacher, both volumes of Please Love Me, My Alien Lover, and the first volume of Cactus Girl on January 31.

Don't Fall in Love with My Teacher centers on Mayuka Kawai, a first-year high schooler, who has been rejected by the upperclassman she has a crush on, and who has grades so bad she is on the verge of repeating a year. She gets to know a smart but bad-mouthed classmate named Keito Ichihara through an incident at Christmas, and he takes up the offer of Mayuk'as parents of being her part-time home tutor to improve her grades.

Morita launched the manga in Shogakukan's Ciao magazine in 2015, and ended it last May. Shogakukan published the manga's fifth and final compiled book volume last August.

M&C! previously published Morita's How to be a Girl (Onna no Ko no Hajimekata), KISS, Secret x Secret (Himitsu x Himitsu), and Catching Your Love (Sawatari-san o Kōryaku Suru Hōhō) manga. It recently published the second and final volume of Morita's Be With My First Love manga last May.

Please Love Me centers on high school student Ami. Since their parents re-marriage when she was three years old, Ami has lived together with her stepbrother Kaito, who is older than her by two years. Kaito is kind, and works hard as the school student council president. And ever since she was little, Ami has had a secret crush on him. In truth she wants to keep her brother all to herself, but she knows it is the one thing she cannot say.

Yū and Sasaki launched the manga in Futabasha's Comic Mahou no iland magazine in 2010, and ended it in the same year. Futabasha published two compiled book volumes for the manga. Yū wrote the story, while Sasaki drew the art.

My Alien Lover centers on Kairi, the smartest student in his school. When his hyperactive upperclassman Nanbu, the sole member of the school's Space Research Club, gives him a lively invitation, he gets caught up in her antics. While Kairi had truly loved space once, he had abandoned that side of him ever since her mother's death. But with Nanbu's invitation, he may rediscover his love for space, and find a new love for her.

Anan published the manga in Kodansha's Dessert magazine in 2016, and Kodansha published the manga's one compiled book volume in August 2016.

Cactus Girl is set in 1985, and centers on the Iemura family, a family of seven living in the suburban outskirts of Yokohama. The father of the family maintains cacti as a hobby, and displays them proudly in the family's garden. As a result, Yūko, the eldest daughter at sixth grade, has earned the nickname of "Catcus Girl." Yūko thinks that her father doesn't consider his family too much in some things, but they still live a peaceful life.

Kirihara launched the manga in Futabasha's Comic High! magazine in 2013, and ended it in 2015. Futabasha published three compiled book volumes for the manga.

Kirihara also launched a manga adaptation of Yoru Sumino's Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai (I want to eat your pancreas) novel in Futabasha's Monthly Action magazine in August 2016, and ended it in May 2017. Futabasha published the manga's second and final compiled book volume last June. The novel is inspiring an anime film next year.