Chihayafuru

Manga adapts 4-volume novel series This year's 20th issue of Kodansha's Be-Love magazine announced on Saturday that a Chihayafuru spinoff manga titled Chihayafuru Chūgakusei-hen (Chihayafuru Middle School Arc) in the next issue on October 13. Oto Tōda is drawing the manga. The manga adapts Yui Tokiumi's spinoff novel series for Yuki Suetsugu's Chihayafuru manga. Kodansha released a total of four volumes between 2012 and 2015. The novels feature a series of stories detailing various characters' lives in middle school. (The original manga begins when they are in elementary school and skips to high school.) Suetsugu launched the ongoing manga in Kodansha's Be-Love magazine in December 2007, and Kodansha will publish the 36th compiled volume on November 13. Da Vinci magazine ranked it #7 in its "Book of the Year" list last year. Kodansha has released bilingual editions of the manga's compiled volumes in Japan, and Kodansha Comics is releasing the manga digitally in English.

By Yuki Suetsugu. Released in Japan by Kodansha, serialization ongoing in the magazine Be Love. Released in North America digitally by Kodansha Comics. Translated by Ko Ransom.The sign of a good series is that you care about the characters as if they were real people, and take joy in their triumphs and grieve at their setbacks. This can sometimes backfire, however, when you see the setbacks coming and think to yourself “Oh noooooo!”. The moment I saw Chihaya’s head throb, I knew immediately what was going to happen by the end of the volume, and it hurt. This is why this review is running somewhat late, because I really did not want to read what I knew was going to happen. It comes after a half volume of small triumphs and achievements, as they quality for the National Tournament, win over their faculty adviser, and slowly come together as a team, each character getting a little bit more to do and more for us to identify with. Then I saw that throbbing head. And I said “…she’s sick.” An

New poster visual also unveiled for 3rd live-action film The official website for the live-action films of Yuki Suetsugu's Chihayafuru manga unveiled a new teaser video and poster visual for Chihayafuru: Musubi (Chihayafuru: Conclusion), the upcoming sequel film, on Friday. The video reveals the film's March 17 opening date. The film will take place two years after the first two films. The film will depict Chihaya, Taichi, and Arata in their third year of high school. The cast members returning from the previous films include: Suzu Hirose as Chihaya Ayase Shūhei Nomura as Taichi Mashima Mackenyu as Arata Wataya Mone Kamishiraishi as Kanade Ōe Yūma Yamato as Yūsei Nishida Yūki Morinaga as Tsutomu Komano Hiroya Shimizu as Akihito Sudō Mayu Matsuoka as Shinobu Wakamiya Miyuki Matsuda as Taeko Miyauchi Jun Kunimura as Harada The new cast includes (from left to right): Mio Yūki as Sumire Hanano, a girl who falls in love with Taichi on first sig