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Elex Media Licenses Kindaichi R, Bonnouji, Chocolate Girl Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on Tuesday that it has licensed the Kindaichi R (Kindaichi Shōnen no Jikenbo R), Bonnouji, and Chocolate Girl manga series.
Seimaru Amagi and Fumiya Sato's Kindaichi Shōnen no Jikenbo R mystery manga centers around a high school boy named Hajime Kindaichi who usually seems dull, but when there is a case, he demonstrates remarkable deductive skills inherited from his famous detective grandfather.
Amagi and Sato launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Manga magazine as a continuation of Yōzaburō Kanari and Sato's original Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo (Kindaichi Case Files) manga in 2013. Kodansha published the manga's seventh compiled book volume on September 17. The manga has inspired a 26-episode television anime adaptation, which premiered in Japan in April 2014, and a currently-airing second season that premiered in Japan on October 3.
Akieda's Bonnouji romantic comedy manga centers around Ozawa, an office lady who recently broke up with her boyfriend of five years, and is so low in spirits that she begins drinking. One day, while coming home from drinking, she asks a man named Oyamada if she can use his toilet. She takes an interest in Oyamada's cluttered apartment filled with things his brother sends him, and Ozawa ends up visiting his apartment more and more in her free time.
Akieda launched the series in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Flapper magazine in 2008, and published it irregularly for most of its run until she ended the series in 2012. Kadokawa published the manga's third and final compiled book volume in July 2013.
Yuki Yoshihara's Chocolate Girl romantic comedy manga follows the relationship between a negative-thinking entertainment manager named Kyōko and Riku Tezuka, a stern actor whom Kyōko meets while scouting new talent.
Yoshihara launched the manga in Shogakukan's Petit Comic magazine in 2010, and ended it in October 2011. She also published an additional chapter titled Chocolate Girl EXTRA in the same magazine in 2012. Shogakukan published the manga's third and final compiled book volume in December 2011, and the Chocolate Girl EXTRA volume in November 2013.
