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Someday's Dreamers' Yoshizuki Ends 8-jō Carnival Manga

This year's 23rd issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine revealed on Wednesday that Kumichi Yoshizuki will end his 8-jō Carnival (Carnival from 8 Tatami Mats) manga in the magazine's next issue on May 16.

The manga centers on Ryokuta Hanazawa, a high school boy who is so low-key that he remains unnoticed by most people even in class. Shio Mizuno, one of the smartest and most talented girls in school, sits next to him. One day, he spots Mizuno filming herself dancing in costume with a mask on at a lonely part of a local park. Ryokuta finds out that Mizuno uploads her dances to video sites under the pseudonym Smile, and he gets the idea to do his own anonymous dance videos to express himself, filming his dances from his own room.

Yoshizuki launched the manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine last November. Kodansha published the manga's second compiled book volume on April 17.

Yoshiyuki ended his Kimi to Boku no Ashiato ~Time Travel Kasuga Kenkyūsho~ (Your and My Footprints: The Time Travel Kasuga Laboratory) time-traveling romance series in Shueisha's Oh Super Jump seinen magazine in 2012. He then ended his Colomb Fille manga in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2013, and ended his Magi no Okurimono manga in Shueisha's Grand Jump Premium magazine in 2014.

Yoshizuki launched his previous manga, Kimi to 100-kai Me no Koi (The 100th Love With You), in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine in April 2016, and ended it in February 2017. Shueisha published the third and final compiled book volume of the manga in the same month. The manga adapts the live-action film of the same name, which opened in Japan in February 2017.

Tokyopop published Yoshizuki's Someday's Dreamers magical slice-of-life manga in North America. The manga is adapted from a story by Norie Yamada. The series inspired two television anime, two spinoff manga, and a live-action film. Sentai Filmworks released both anime series on home video in North America.