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Denpa, Kuma License Holiday Junction, Qualia Under the Snow Manga (Updated)
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Update: Denpa also announced during the panel that it has licensed Harada's Yata-Mono manga.
Holiday Junction (Kyūjitsu Junction) is Shinzō's collection of short manga. The book contains seven one-shot manga. Shogakukan shipped the book in Japan in July 2016.
Seaside Stranger is Kii's debut work as a manga creator, and it ran in Shodensha's on BLUE magazine in 2013. Seven Seas licensed the manga, and also licensed the sequel Seaside Stranger: Harukaze no Étranger (Seven Seas releases the manga as a single series under the Seaside Stranger title). Seven Seas released the fifth volume in December 2022.
Kii also drew the character designs for the 2021 anime film Sing a Bit of Harmony.
The manga centers on Chikara, a university student who has been dedicated to studying aviation due to a dream he has had since childhood to make people fly. When he accidentally sneaks a peek at the room of Satomi, a transfer student who is smart and has perfect looks, he sees Satomi in a private moment, and also sees the strange tattoo that Satomi has on his back.
The manga's story follows gay drag queen Whip, who has a daily routine of idly chatting in a chat app with a user named "Insomniac Salaryman" and listening to their grumbling. Whip develops some light romantic feelings for this person that he has never seen, but dismisses it as a romance that will never happen.
futekiya previously published Kihara's The Dog will not Give Up Unrequited Love (Ichizu na Inu wa Akiramenai) manga.
Update: Added Yata-Mono. Source: Denpa's Anime Expo panel (Ryley Moore)
Source: Email correspondence
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