posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Manga launched in October 2022
© Jun Yokoyama, Shonengahosha
The first 2024 issue of Shonengahosha‘s Young King Bull magazine (the first issue of the magazine’s new bimonthly schedule) revealed on Monday that Jun Yokoyama‘s Mari-chan manga will end with its next chapter, which will appear in the magazine’s third issue on September 2. The manga’s third and final compiled book volume will ship in October.
The manga centers on 74-year-old Mami Inaba, who has been running a diner in a sleepy port town for 20 years. But when a nearby newly-opened apartment building also has a shopping mall within walking distance, she finds that there has been little foot traffic toward her diner. When she has a chance encounter with a supposedly-missing famous actress Hijiri Umakoshi, the pair begin to form a plan to revive Mami’s struggling business.
Yokoyama launched the manga in Young King Bull in October 2022. Shonengahosha published the manga’s second compiled book volume on February 26.
Jun Yokoyama drew a manga adaptation of Liu Cixin‘s Taking Care of God novel in Kadokawa‘s web manga site Comic Hu from June 2022 to January 2023. Yen Press released the manga in English.
Source: Young King Bull issue 1
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