Azuki also added Kotonoha, Ryoji Renjo: Gourmet Detective, Sweeter Than Cake, Dreamnautes manga
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Azuki announced during its panel at Anime NYC on Friday that it is teaming up with Scholastic Graphix to release full-color editions of Mai Matsuda's Hikaru in the Light! and Yoshino Koyoka's Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms manga. The first full-color volume of the former will be released in March 2025, and the latter will be released in April 2025.
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The company also added the following manga from MediBang: Kotonoha by Kisugae, Ryoji Renjo: Gourmet Detective by Tadashi Kato, Sweeter Than Cake by Yuga Kuromiya, and Dreamnautes by Yasuyuki Oshima.
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Matsuda launched the Hikaru in the Light! manga in Manga Action in May 2021 and ended it in August 2022. Futabasha has published four compiled book volumes for the manga. Azuki has licensed the manga and released all four volumes in English.
Azuki describes the manga:
Middle school student Hikaru Ogino is known as the “songbird” of her family’s bathhouse in Tokyo. But when her best friend Ran—a former girl group idol—invites her to try out for a pop star “survival camp,” her talents will be put to the test. Can Hikaru overcome her opponents and make her debut on stage, or will she fail?
Yoshino Koyoka (Aria the Scarlet Ammo) launched a manga adaptation of Mecha-Ude on the LINE Manga and ebookjapan services in September 2022. Azuki began releasing the manga in English under the title Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms in July 2023. The manga has four volumes.
Sae Okamoto's official anime Mecha-Ude Project will premiere in October. Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs under the title Mechanical Arms.
Azuki describes the manga:
Kita-Kagami City is a fairly normal town… except that some people have taken on a life of their own. They get their hands on Mecha-Ude: powerful, sentient, mechanical creatures that attach themselves to human hosts and have amazing abilities. When middle school student Hikaru accidentally activates Alma, a Mecha-Ude robotic arm with no memories of its past, they must work together to uncover the mystery of Alma's identity and prevent the powerful Mecha-Ude from falling into the wrong hands.
Pony Canyon announced in September 2022 that the project would receive an official anime series. Anime Expo hosted the world premiere of the anime's first episode in July 2023.
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