Rebecca Silverman
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It s back! Are you ready? Whoops, wrong boy idol show reference there. But the fact remains that I m nearly always ready for a new season of
IDOLiSH7 for the simple fact that, despite incorporating so many of the tropes of its genre, it manages to tell an interesting story each time that very rarely feels melodramatic or stretched to the point of credulity. Considering that the series involves not one, but two sets of separated siblings with one taken in by a guy who is basically a mustache-twirling villain, a guy who speaks with an atrocious accent, and roughly forty named characters, that s no small achievement.
Io Sakisaka will launch a new manga titled
Sakura, Saku (The Cherry Blossoms Bloom) in the magazine s March issue on February 13.
The manga will center on a girl named Saki, who thinks of herself as always just blending in with the crowd. At her high school entrance ceremony, she looks for a boy named Sakura, who has helped her before. When she finds Haruki Sakura, she can feel destiny tugging at them both.
Bessatsu Margaret previously teased in October that Sakisaka would launch a new manga this year.
Sakisaka serialized her traditional school romance manga
Bessatsu Margaret from 2007 to 2009.
Viz Mediapublished the 10-volume series in English. The manga inspired a live-action film that opened in Japan in March 2015.