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I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die Manga Ends in September

Umi Shiina announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday the I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die (Aono-kun ni Sawaritai kara Shinitai) manga will end in the November issue of Kodansha's Afternoon magazine on September 25. The series will receive an epilogue after.

Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga digitally in English, and it describes the story:

I would die if it would allow me to touch you. That is my love. Airhead Yuri-chan and her boyfriend Aono-kun had a perfectly normal relationship until one day Aono-kun suddenly “passed away” … They will never be bound together, and they cannot even touch. This is their difficult and almost too sincere love story.

Shiina launched the manga in Afternoon in December 2016. Kodansha published the manga's eighth compiled book volume in May 2021, and the series entered its final arc with the volume. Kodansha shipped the 13th compiled book volume on August 22. Kodansha Comics published the 12th compiled book volume on December 24.

The manga inspired a live-action series in 2022.

Source: Umi Shiina's X/Twitter account