Author Wandering Son's manga about girls in an opera school ran from 2011 until last March.
© Takako Shimura, Ohta Publishing House
Publisher Ohta announced on Thursday that Takako Shimura's Awajima Hyakkei manga is inspiring an anime. Publisher Ohta has not revealed any further details about the anime adaptation.
The coming-of-age series follows girls at an opera school, with each chapter revolving around a different girl.
Shimura launched the manga on Ohta Publishing's PocoPoco website in July 2011. The manga moved to Ohta Web Comic in July 2016. The manga went on hiatus in 2019 and continued three years later, published monthly in January 2022. Manga went on hiatus again in August 2022 and resumed in November 2023. Manga finished on March 15.
Publisher Ohta will release the manga's fifth and final volume on May 13.
Shimura is best known for her Wandering Son and Sweet Blue Flowers manga, both of which inspired anime television adaptations in 2011 and 2009 respectively. She also drew the original character designs for the anime Aldnoah.Zero, Battery the Animation and Overtake! racing cartoon. She drew a short comic adaptation of the novel Battery. Fantagraphics Books is publishing her Wandering Son manga series in North America and Viz Media is publishing Sweet Blue Flowers. Seven Seas is releasing Shimura's Even Thought We're Adults (Otona ni Nattemo) manga digitally and in print.
Shimura's Happy-Go-Lucky Days (Dōnika Naru Hibi) manga inspired an anime film that opened in Japan in October 2020.
Source: Ohta Web Comic Twitter accountNatalie Comics