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Sankarea Author's New Manga Gets Full Series

This year's 16th issue of Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine announce on Friday that Mitsuru Hattori's new Kirei ni Shitemoraemasuka. manga will get a full monthly series beginning with the 20th issue on October 6. The manga first launched as a three-chapter short in the 14th issue on July 7.

Kirei ni Shitemoraemasuka. (Will You Clean This For Me?) takes place at a seaside town laundry shop called "Kinme Cleaning," where the proprietress Takana Kinme is a cheerful, hardworking girl who loves hot springs. The "bittersweet" story stars Kinme and the people around her.

Hattori published the zombie comedy manga Sankarea from 2009 to 2014, and it inspired a 2012 anime that Funimation released in North America. Kodansha Comics published the original manga in English. Hattori's earlier Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho manga also inspired a television anime.

Hattori more recently provided the art for the manga adaptation of NisiOisin's Imperfect Shojo novel. Vertical licensed the manga for North America.