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Yuri Romance Light Novel from the Creator of 'Adachi and Shimamura' Licensed in English
On Friday, Yen Press announced that it has licensed the Yuri drama light novel series My First Love's Kiss (Watashi no Hatsukoi Aite ga Kiss Shiteta) and will release the first volume in August 2024. The series is written by Adachi and Shimamura creator Hitoma Iruma and illustrated by popular Yuri artist Fly (Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki).
The publisher describes the series:
Takasora Hoshi’s life is upended when a girl from her class named Umi Mizuike and her mother temporarily move into her family’s cramped apartment. From the outset of this arrangement, Takasora finds herself annoyed by Umi’s behavior...and her good looks. And though the two girls initially agree to avoid interfering with each other’s lives, Takasora can’t help but start to wonder where Umi keeps wandering off to at night…
My First Love's Kiss is connected to Iruma's high school Yuri series Adachi and Shimamura, with crossover characters appearing in later volumes. However, unlike that series, its story is more bittersweet and gloomy.
The light novels began publication in Japan in January of 2022 under ASCII Media Works's Dengeki Bunko imprint. The third and final Japanese volume was released in December of that year.
Hitoma Iruma is a Japanese author best known for his series Ground Control to Psychoeletric Girl and Adachi and Shimamura, both of which received anime and manga adaptations. He frequently collaborates with Bloom Into You creator Nio Nakatani, working with her on the Bloom Into You spin-off series, Regarding Saeki Sayaka, and the original light novel works End Blue and Shoujo Mousou Chuu.
Fly is an illustrator known especially for her Yuri artwork and for illustrating Bottom-Tier Characters Tomozaki and Chasing after Aoi Koshiba, as well as creating Kemono Friends and providing the character designs for P.A. Works' Iroduku: The World in Colors. Fly has also contributed artwork, cover illustrations, and manga for several anthologies, including four volumes of Syrup (Licensed by Seven Seas), the first Bloom Into You Anthology (Seven Seas), and éclair (Yen Press).
You can check out My First Love's Kiss when Yen Press releases the first volume in English this August.
Source: Press Release, Email Correspondence
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you cant just say it like that
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WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS GOING ON IN THERE
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Long-Running Yuri Series 'Adachi and Shimamura' To End with 12th Volume
Released in Japan on Friday, the 11th volume of Hitoma Iruma's long-running Yuri light novel series Adachi and Shimamura (Adachi and Shimamura) revealed that the series will conclude in the subsequent and forthcoming 12th volume. There is, at the time of writing, no official release date for the final volume, although, considering the series previous release schedule, readers can likely expect its release in late 2023.
Adachi and Shimamura is a slice of life romance series following high school students Sakura Adachi and Hougetsu Shimamura. After running into each other one day while cutting class, the two run into each other and form a friendship. However, over time, Adachi realizes that she has come to develop romantic feelings for Shimamura. Their relationship and eventual romance grow throughout the series as the girls gather the courage to open up to each.
Adachi and Shimamura is written by Hitoma Iruma and illustrated by Non. It began serialization in Dengeki Bunko Magazine in 2012 until the magazine ceased publication in 2020. ASCII Media Works publishes 11 volumes of the light novel in Japanese under its Dengeki Bunko imprint. Seven Seas Entertainment licenses the light novels for English publication and will release the 10th volume digitally on December 22 and in paperback on January 23.
Although the series' early volumes received mixed reviews from critics, with criticism aimed at its early story and side characters, Adachi and Shimamura is incredibly popular and one of the most successful Yuri series of all time. Later volumes generally received more positive reviews, with praise for the development of its title characters and their relationships.
Adachi and Shimamura spawned multiple adaptations, including a television anime adaptation in 2020 directed by Satoshi Kuwabara at Tezuka Productions. The anime is dubbed in English and available to stream internationally on Crunchyroll.
The light novels are adapted into two manga series, the first of which, illustrated by Mani, was serialized on Gangan Online from April 2016 to December 2017. The series ended with three collected volumes published by Square Enix. A second manga adaptation, illustrated by Moke Yuzuhara, began in Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh in May 2019. Four volumes of this manga are published in Japanese by ASCII Media Works and in English by Yen Press.
You can check out Adachi and Shimamura today in English and get caught up before the release of the 12th and final volume: https://amzn.to/3FHSBR8
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Source: Adachi and Shimamura Volume 11 (Japanese Release)
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