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Elex Media Licenses Arakawa Under the Bridge, Blue Box Manga

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
1st volumes of both manga ship on March 23

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Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on March 10 that it has licensed Hikaru Nakamura's Arakawa Under the Bridge manga, and Kōji Miura's Blue Box (Ao no Hako) manga. It will release the first volume of both manga on March 23.

Arakawa Under the Bridge centers around an upper-class young man named Ko "Riku" Ichinomiya. He meets a beautiful homeless girl named Nino from the banks of Arakawa River, where many of Tokyo's most unusual residents live.

Nakamura serialized the manga in Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine from 2004 to 2015. Square Enix released 15 compiled book volumes for the manga.

The manga was adapted into a 13-episode TV anime series in April 2010, with a second 13-episode season airing in October of the same year.

The manga was also adapted into a live-action television drama in 2011, and a live-action film in 2012.

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Viz Media is releasing Miura's Blue Box manga in North America, and it describes the story:
Taiki admires Chinatsu from afar, but he doubts that she sees him in the same way. Yet somehow, he musters up the courage to tell her to never give up on her dreams! After such a bold declaration, will Taiki's fleeting high school romance finally begin?

The manga launched in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in April 2021. Shueisha released the manga's ninth volume on February 3.

Source: Elex Media's Twitter account via Kaori Nusantara


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