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Penerbit Haru Licenses Honobu Yonezawa's Goodbye Fairy Novel

Indonesian publisher Penerbit Haru announced on Saturday that it has licensed Honobu Yonezawa's Goodbye Fairy (Sayonara Yōsei) novel.

The mystery story is set in 1991, and begins when the protagonist, a high school boy named Michiyuki Moriya, meets a foreign girl named Maja who is taking shelter from the rain. Together, they spend their days until Maja eventually has to return to her country. After she leaves, Moriya is then embroiled in a great mystery, the solution to which lies in his and his friends' memories.

Yonezawa published the novel in 2004. The book is the first in his Beruf Series of novels, which is followed up by Ō to Circus (The King and the Circus) and Shinjitsu no 10-mētoru no Mae (10 Meters Before the Truth), both of which debuted in 2015.

Yonezawa is best known for his Kotenbu (Classic Literature Club) novel series, which began with Hyōka in 2001. The Credit Roll of the Fool (Gusha no Endroll) novel then followed in 2002, Kudryavka no Junban in 2005, Tōmawari Suru Hina in 2007, Futari no Kyori no Gaisan in 2010, and Imasara Tsubasa o Iwaretemo in November 2016. Penerbit Haru released the Hyōka novel in December 2017, followed by Credit Roll of the Fool and The Kudryavka Sequence in 2018, and The Doll that Took a Detour last year.

Kyoto Animation and late director Yasuhiro Takemoto adapted some of the stories in the series into a 22-episode television anime series titled Hyōka in 2012.

Source: Penerbit Haru's Instagram account