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Live-Action Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko Series Gets Sequel on June 26
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
MBS revealed on Friday that it is producing a sequel series to the live-action series adaptation of Sal Jiang's office girls-love manga Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko (Ayaka-chan wa Hiroko-senpai ni Koishiteru). The series will premiere on MBS and TV Kanagawa on June 26, on TV Saitama on June 30, on Gunma TV on July 1, on Tochigi TV on July 2, and on Chiba TV on July 3. The series will have six episodes.
Shiho Katō (right in visual above) and Kanna Mori (left) return as Ayaka Usagida and Hiroko Kanō, respectively.
Yūka Eda will direct the first three episodes of the series, while Yūho Ishibashi is directing the latter three episodes. Ayumi Shimo is returning to pen the scripts.
NTT Solmare Corp's MangaPlaza digital service publishes the manga in English. The company describes the story:
Soft and bubbly office lady Ayaka is madly in love with her senior at work, Hiroko! Two lovestruck coworkers who both think the other is straight totally crush on each other... popular Twitter artist Sal Jiang's latest office rom-com!
Jiang launched the manga on Futabasha's Web Comic Action manga website in June 2020, and ended it in March 2023. Futabasha published the manga's third and final volume in the same month.
Jiang's Black and White: Tough Love at the Office (Shiro to Kuro: Black & White) manga debuted on Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha's manga website Comic Ruelle in March 2020, and ended with its third volume in May 2023. Seven Seas licensed the manga in English and published its first compiled book volume in October 2022. The manga's second volume will ship in October 2024.
Sources: MBS' website, Comic Natalie
