The release of volume 5 of the Manga scheduled for early 2025 was also postponed
© Rumi Ichinohe, Kodansha
The official website of Kodansha's Bessatsu Friend magazine announced on Monday that Rumi Ichinohe Manga's I See Your Face, Turned Away (Kimi no Yokogao o Miteita) will be on hiatus due to production reasons. Additionally, the release of the manga's fifth compilation volume scheduled for early 2025 will be postponed.
Kodansha USA has licensed and published the manga in English, and describes the story:
From the creator of My Sweet Girl comes a new manga series about four teenagers and four stories of their unrequited love. When you don't want to lose a friendship but long for something more, the only thing you can do is look at the turned away face of your lover…
One can call Hikari an unusually ordinary person. One day, she takes up a new hobby – imagining the romance between her beautiful friend Mari and the cute guy in class, Otani. It's all just harmless fun until the roles start to get stuck in Hikari's mind. Is she really just the best friend in this love story? And who was thinking of Otani when his eyes averted?
Ichinohe launched the manga in Bessatsu Friend in April 2022. Kodansha published the manga's first volume in September 2022 and the fourth volume on August 9.
The manga was nominated in this year's 48th Kodansha Annual Manga Awards.
Ichinohe launched the My Sweet Girl (Kimi wa Kawaii Onna no Ko) manga in Bessatsu Friend in 2015, and ended it in February 2021. Kodansha published the manga's 13th and final volume in April 2021. 2021. Kodansha USA published the manga in English.
Source: website
