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A Silent Voice Manga Creator Yoshitoki Oima's Jaipur Lit Fest Schedule Revealed

Super Sugoii announced A Silent Voice and To Your Eternity manga creator Yoshitoki Ōima's schedule of events for the Jaipur Literature Festival in India on January 18-19:

Panel: "Ye Dil Manga More: Art and Anime from Japan"
Location: Jaipur Literature Festival, Hotel Clarks Amer
Date: January 18
Time: 3:00 p.m. IST - 3:50 p.m. IST

Panel: "Celebrating Manga and Graphic Novels"
Location: Jaipur BookMark, Vedanta Front Lawn
Date: January 19
Date 11:00 a.m. IST - 11:50 a.m. IST

She will also take part in a book signing session in Jaipur.

Oima will also visit New Delhi and take part in the following panels and sessions at the following locations/events:

New Delhi World Book Fair 2026, January 17

• Public talk session
• Audience interaction
• Book signing session (limited slots)

Japan Foundation, New Delhi (Library Event), January 17

• Special talk session
• Cultural interaction with readers and students (limited slots)

Ōima launched the To Your Eternity (Fumetsu no Anata e) manga in November 2016 in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. The manga's first arc ended in December 2019, and the second arc launched in January 2020. The third arc began in January 2023. The manga won the Best Shōnen Manga award at the 43rd annual Kodansha Manga Awards in May 2019. The manga also ranked on the American Library Association's (ALA's) Young Adult Library Services Association's (YALSA) 2019 list of Great Graphic Novels for Teens. It ended on June 4.

The manga inspired three television anime seasons. The first season premiered in April 2021. The second season premiered in October 2022. The third season premiered on October 4.

A Silent Voice began as a one-shot that Ōima published in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2011. She then turned it into a full story with the launch of a serialization in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2013. The series ended in November 2014. Kodansha published seven compiled book volumes for the manga.

Naoko Yamada and Kyoto Animation adapted the manga into an anime film that opened in September 2016. The film earned 2.3 billion yen in Japan, and was the 19th highest-grossing film released in Japan in 2016.

Source: Super Sugoii's Facebook page