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Elex Media Licenses Akizuki-san wa Otona ni Narenai Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Elex Media announced on Friday that it has licensed Yu's Akizuki-san wa Otona ni Narenai (Akizuki Won't Grow Up), Saki Kanoto's Akazukin wa Mō Nigerarenai?! (Little Red Riding Hood Can't Run Away), and Kyō Yamazaki's Shikeishū Sōsakan Akutagawa Gai no Jikenbō (Death Row Investigator Gai Akutagawa's Case File) manga. Elex Media will begin releasing all three manga on January 3.
Akizuki-san wa Otona ni Narenai centers on Yusa, a 25-year-old nursery school teacher. Yusa's boyfriend is Akizuki, a 32-year-old president of a toy company. Akizuki is handsome and capable, but he unfortunately still behaves in childish ways. When they begin living together, their everyday lives become more and more strange.
Yu launched the manga on Shogakukan's Manga ONE app in July 2015, and ended it in February. Shogakukan published the manga's fifth and final compiled book volume on March 10.
Akazukin wa Mō Nigerarenai?! collects six one-shot manga that Kanoto published in Shogakukan's Sho-Comi magazine in 2014 to 2015. The title story centers on Akari, a girl who has been chosen to star in the leading role of her school's "Little Red Riding Hood" play for the cultural festival. Opposite her is Yūto, who suddenly starts approaching her during practice one day. When she rebuffs him, he suddenly kisses her, and never takes his eyes off her.
Shogakukan published the book in March 2016.
Shikeishū Sōsakan Akutagawa Gai no Jikenbō centers on the titular Gai Akutagawa, a death row convict who committed murder when he was 16 years old, but maintains his claim of innocence. Akutagawa's intelligence and skills of deduction are beyond reproach, and so he has a deal with the police that his date of execution is moved by one year for every case he solves. And so he uses his charm and intelligence to solve crimes that the police cannot solve on their own.
Yamazaki published the manga's first book volume on January 12, and published the fourth and final volume on November 10.
