Image via Yayoi Ogawa's Twitter
© Yayoi Ogawa, Kodansha
The July issue of Kodansha's monthly magazine Kiss Magazine announced on Saturday that Yayoi Ogawa's Eme to Hime manga will end in the next issue on June 25.
The story is about second-year high school student Hime and her 13-year-old Jack Russell Terrier dog named Eme. The two are like sisters, inseparable. During a routine walk, they had a traffic accident. What awaited them after regaining consciousness was the great impact of the accident.
Ogawa launched the series in June 2023.
Ogawa launched the romantic comedy manga Knight of the Ice (Ginban Kishi) in Kiss magazine in September 2012, and ended it in June 2017. Kodansha has published 11 compiled book volumes for the manga. . Publisher Kodansha USA licensed the manga and published the 11th and final volume in English in August 2022.
Tokyopop published Ogawa's Kimi wa Pet manga in North America under the title Tramps Like Us. Comixology added the manga to its service in June 2019. The manga was previously adapted into a 10-episode live-action television series in Japan in 2003 starring Koyuki as Sumire and Jun Matsumoto in as Momo. The manga also inspired a 2011 South Korean live-action film starring Jang Geun-suk and Kim Ha-neul. The latest Japanese live-action manga television adaptation debuted in 2017.
Source: Kiss July no