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Gurazeni Spinoff, New Manga by Kakegurui's Kawamoto Among 8 New Manga Launching in Evening Magazine
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official Evening magazine announced on Sunday that it will launch eight new manga in the months.
Gurazeni: Natsunosuke no Seishun (Gurazeni: Natsunosuke's Youth) spinoff manga in the magazine's seventh issue on March 10.
Writer Homura Kawamoto (Kakegurui) and artist Yasoko Momen will launch the Legal Egg manga in the magazine's ninth issue on April 14. The manga follows a young legal apprentice who has a monthly salary of 135,000 yen ($1,230).
The other six new manga include:
- Shuryō no Yumeka by Ryō Kobu (starts in fifth issue on February 10)
- Saiyōki by Yukiko Fuyumori and Kaoru Ichinose (starts in sixth issue on February 25)
- Battō by Zabiera Hasegawa (starts in eighth issue on March 24)
- Dakara, Hyakki wa Yoru wo Tsumugu by Sayori Tanuma (starts in 10th issue on April 28)
- New work by Sōichi Sumoto (in 11th issue on May 12)
- Love of the second & fourth Tuesday (Dai-ni Dai-yon Kayōbi no Koi) by Comic Days website)
Moritaka and Gurazeni baseball manga focuses on a baseball team that operates as a highly-stratified society, where the player's performance determines his annual salary. The story follows an eight-year relief pitcher with an odd left-handed side-arm throw named Natsunosuke Banba as he fights to survive under the team's strict system.
Writer Moritaka and artist Adachi began serializing the series in 2010. The manga series Gurazeni: Pa League-hen launched in March 2018.
The original manga inspired two television anime series, which premiered in April 2018 and October 2018. Crunchyroll streamed both anime as they aired.
Kawamoto and streaming the series in June 2019.
The manga also inspired a 10-episode live-action show that premiered in Japan in January 2018. Netflix is premiered in March 2019, followed by a live-action film in May 2019.
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