PEOW2 announced during the “Fred Schodt and Matt Alt: From Manga! Manga to Pure Invention” panel at Anime NYC on Saturday that the company has licensed Hisashi Eguchi’s Stop!! Hibari-kun! manga. Volume 1 will ship in fall 2025.
The company describes the series:
Stop!! Hibari-kun! is one of the OG transgender protagonists leading this classic romantic comedy manga by one of Japan's most iconic artists, Hisashi Eguchi.
Eguchi launched the series in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in October 1981 and the series ended in November 1983.
The series inspired a 35-episode anime adaptation in 1983.
Source: Fred Schodt and Matt Alt panel at AnimeNYC (Deb Aoki)
