Prison School mangaka Akira Hiramoto will launch a new manga series next year, the January 2022 edition of Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine revealed on Monday.
The untitled project will release sometime in March 2022. Not much is known about the plot, though the magazine has hinted at the series being a romantic comedy.
Hiramoto’s most recent series, RaW HERO, ended last summer. The manga ran in Kodansha’s Evening magazine from 2018 to 2020. The six-volume series is licensed in English by Yen Press, and the publisher will release the final volume in February 2022.
The mangaka has also worked on Me and the Devil Blues since 2004. The historical series is centered around Blues legend Robert Johnson, and was initially serialized in Kodansha’s Afternoon KC. The series went on hiatus from 2008 to 2015 and was last published in the Young Magazine KC imprint before going on hiatus yet again.
Hiramoto is best known for his Prison School series, which was serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine from 2011 to 2017. A total of 28 collected volumes were released, selling for over 13 million copies. Yen Press publishes the manga in English, and released its final volume in October 2019.
A 12-episode anime produced by J.C. Staff aired during the Summer 2015 season. Blood-C and Girls und Panzer director Tsutomu Mizushima headed the project, while Michiko Yokote (Princess Tutu, ReLIFE) served as screenwriter. The series was licensed and streamed by Funimation in North America and the UK. Madman Entertainment owns the series’ distribution rights in Australasia.
A nine-episode television drama produced by Studio Robot aired later in 2015, with Taishi Nakagawa portraying Kiyoshi Fujino and Aoi Morikawa playing Hana Midorikawa. The series aired on MBS and TBS from October to December.
Source: Anime News Network