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Futari H Creator Aki Katsu's Wasurenazuma no Kimi to Manga Ends in June
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The manga's story begins in the modern day 21st century, with the elderly couple Towako and Kazuki. Kazuki loses his reason to live after her wife Towako passes away, having suffered from dementia in her final years. In despair, he tries to commit suicide by drowning with his wife's body. But he does not wake up to the afterlife, but instead to his second year high school days in 1966. With a second chance at a relationship with Towako, he will try to do it all over again.
Katsu launched the manga in Monthly Big Comic Spirits in March 2024. Shogakukan published the manga's first compiled book volume in November 2024, and will publish the second volume on June 30.
Katsu (Psychic Academy, The Vision of Escaflowne) has been drawing Futari H (Manga Sutra), which describes itself as a "love bible" or a "user's manual" for people in love, in Young Animal and Young Animal Arashi since 1997. Hakusensha published the manga's 92nd compiled book volume in November 2024.
Katsu launched a spinoff manga titled Futari H Another on Hakusensha's new Harem manga website in November 2018.
The original Futari H manga inspired two original video anime (OVA) series in 2002 and 2014, a live-action series in 2000, and three live-action films between 2011 and 2012. It then inspired another two live-action film adaptations in April and May 2019.
Tokyopop published Katsu's The Vision of Escaflowne, Psychic Academy, and Manga Sutra in North America. Media Blasters licensed and released the 2002 Futari H OAVs on DVD in North America under the title Step Up Love Story.
Katsu launched the 3 Partner Hajimemashita!! (We Started a Threesome!) on Shogakukan's "e Big Comic 4" website in 2018. Seven Seas licensed the series for English publication in March 2023.
Source: Monthly Big Comic Spirits July issue
