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Elex Media Licenses Yellow Tanabe's Birdmen Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on Thursday that it has licensed Yellow Tanabe's Birdmen manga. The company will release the manga's first volume on May 4.
The manga centers on four middle-school students: Eishi Karasu, Mikisada Kamoda, Rei Sagisawa, and Tsubame Tsumino. After all four are involved in a bus accident, they awaken with the ability to grow wings, becoming "birdmen." Together with an older birdman, Sō Takayama, they form the bird club, and quickly enlist the help of a biologist named Tatsume. The bird club begins to stop other people with special powers, while trying to solve the mystery of their own. Meanwhile, other birdmen have appeared in countries around the world. A jointly established scientific city named Eden is formed to serve as an international gene bank, and their organization is closing in on the bird club.
Tanabe (Kekkaishi) launched the manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine in July 2013. Shogakukan published the manga's seventh compiled book volume on March 18.
