Hatsukoi Aite no Kimi wa Dare? The manga launches on March 22
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This year's 15th issue of Houbunsha's Weekly Manga Times magazine revealed last Friday that Hatsukoi Aite no Kimi wa Dare? (Who Are You, My First Love?), Tsuma's spinoff manga, Yayū Murata's Shōgakusei ni Naru. (If my wife becomes an elementary school student.) manga, which will end in the magazine's next issue on May 10.
The manga debuted in Weekly Manga Times on March 22. The spin-off's story follows high school student Takeru, who, while still in elementary school, begins to develop an interest in classmate Marika, whose wife reincarnation of the series, who has recently grown up.
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The original series is inspiring an anime premiering in 2024.
Noriyuki Abe (Yū Yū Hakusho, Bleach, Flame of Recca) is directing the anime at St.Signpost. Sawako Hirabayashi (Wolf Girl & Black Prince, Delicious Party♡Precure) will supervise and write the film's script. Narihito Sekikawa is designing the characters.
The manga focuses on Keisuke Niijima, a man still suffering 10 years after his wife Takae passed away. But one day, an elementary school girl came to his house and said that she was Takae, reincarnated as another girl. Now Keisuke is trying to make up for lost time, while Takae is an elementary school student struggling with the mindset of a woman in her 40s, trying to create situations where she can meet Keisuke.
Murata published a one-volume version of the manga in Weekly Manga Times in April 2018, before commencing its serialization in July of the same year. The manga ended in December 2022, and Hobunsha published the manga's 14th and final compiled book volume in March 2023.
The manga inspired a live-action series that aired from January to March 2022.
Source: Weekly Manga Times issue 15