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Ya Boy Kongming!'s Yuto Yotsuba, Assassins Pride's Yoshie Katō Launch New Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The manga is set in the modern world, 25 years since elements of a fantasy world have begun encroaching on it. Since this process began, people have discovered ways to measure their various individual strengths and rankings against each other on a worldwide scale. The story centers on Kinoko Kino, a girl from Gunma who recently moved to Tokyo to go to high school. She makes it her goal to overcome her lack of social skills and make friends despite her worst fears, not knowing that she is ranked #1 in the world for an as-yet unknown category.
Yotsuba and Ryō Ogawa launched the Ya Boy Kongming! (Paripi Kōmei) manga in Kodansha's Comic Days website in Japanese in December 2019, and also began running in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine in November 2021. Yotsuba writes the story and Ogawa draws the art. The manga inspired a television anime in April 2022. HIDIVE exclusively and simultaneously streamed the series, and also streamed an English dub. Sentai Filmworks licensed the anime and released it on home video in April 2023. The Paripi Kōmei Road to Summer Sonia compilation film for the anime series screened in Japanese theaters in March 2024.
The live-action series based on the manga premiered in September 2023 on Fuji TV's "Shinsui 10 Drama" timeslot and ended in November 2023. Ya Boy Kongming! the Movie, the live-action film, opened in Japan on April 25.
Katō launched the manga adaptation of Kei Amagi's Assassins Pride light novel series in Shueisha's Ultra Jump magazine in May 2017, and ended it in August 2022.
Source: Tonari no Young Jump
