Solanin

New chapter will be set in 2017 showing Meki, Kao, Billy, Ai Shogakukan revealed on Friday that its new edition release of Inio Asano's Solanin manga will contain a new epilogue chapter labeled "chapter 29," 11 years after the manga concluded in 2006. The new chapter will be set in 2017, and will show the lives of Meiko, Kato, Billy, and Ai. The image right shows Meiko in the new chapter. The new A5-size edition is slated for October 30 in Japan, and will collect both volumes of the manga. The new edition will also have colored illustrations and will have over 30 new drawings. Seen below left is the tentative cover for the new edition. Viz Media released the manga in a single collected book in 2008, and it describes the story: Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo is permanently crashing at her apartment since his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the countr