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Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru Comedy Manga About Old Couple Turned Young Again Gets TV Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Kadokawa revealed on Wednesday that Kagiri Araido's Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru (Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again) manga is inspiring a television anime adaptation. Kadokawa did not reveal any other details for the anime, but revealed a visual for the anime (first image below) and an illustration by Araido (second image below) to celebrate the anime's announcement.
Araido launched the manga on pixiv in October 2019, and it has since garnered over 100 million views. The manga was ranked #6 in the Web Manga category of the sixth "Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō" in 2020. Kadokawa published the manga's sixth compiled book volume in October 2022, and will publish the seventh volume on August 16. The series has one million copies in circulation (including digital purchases).
Source: Press release
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