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Hiro Fujiwara to Publish Maid Sama! 1-Shot Next Month
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Hakusensha is publishing a special issue of its LaLa magazine titled LaLa Fantasy on November 8, and the special issue will include one-shot spinoff chapters of the following manga:
- Hiro Fujiwara's Maid Sama!
- Kiiro Yumi and Hiro Arikawa's Library Wars: Love & War
- Mato Kauta's Ōkami-Heika no Hanayome
- Sorata Akiduki's Akagami no Shirayuki-hime
- Shinobu Amano's Last Game
- Ririko Tsujita's Koi dano Ai dano
The Maid Sama! one-shot will be titled "Kaichō wa Maid-sama! -Tora no Maki-" (Maid Sama! -Volume of Tora-).
The magazine will also include the following one-shots:
- Yuki Fujitsuka's "Baka to Nemuri-hime"
- Yutaka Tachibana's "Kuma-san to Issho"
- Keiko Ishihara's "Samayou Hoshi wa,"
- Nao Mashiba's "Yukiwaribana"
- Mikase Hayashi's "Tsui no Sumika"
Additionally, the magazine will include works by the following manga creators: Toki Yajima, Enika Kani, Kei Kawaguchi, Shii Tsunokawa, Hitsuji Harumi, Mitsuru Yumeki, Makoto Haruno, Miyuki Tsutsui, Yui Aramaki, Shizuru Onda, Ichi Riku, and Uri Kikkura.
The issue will also include an extra chapter of Matsuri Hino's Vampire Knight manga and the Junko Ike one-shot "Tōzoku to Hōseki Shōjo."
Fujiwara published the final chapter of Maid Sama! in LaLa's November issue on September 24. Tokyopop published eight volumes of the manga before the company shut down its North American publishing division in 2011. Fujiwara's manga inspired a 26-episiode television anime series from J.C. Staff in 2010, and Sentai Filmworks released the series on DVD in North America.
