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Elex Media Licenses Barakamon Manga in Indonesia
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on its Pinterest page on Tuesday that it has licensed Satsuki Yoshino's Barakamon manga. Elex Media shipped the manga's first Indonesian volume on Wednesday, priced at 20,000 rupiah.
The slice-of-life comedy manga centers around the ikemen (handsome) 23-year-old calligrapher Seishū Handa, who moves to the remote Gotō Islands off the western coast of Kyushu. Seishū grew up in the city, and the manga chronicles Seishu's interactions with the people of the island, who drive tractors on public roads and don't enter through his front door when they visit. On top of that, Seishū's house becomes a hangout for the island's children.
Satsuki Yoshino launched the Barakamon slice-of-life comedy manga in Square Enix's Gangan Online magazine in 2009. Square Enix released the 11th compiled volume on May 12. Yoshino launched a spinoff manga, titled Handa-kun, in Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine in October 2013. The manga also inspired a 12-episode TV anime adaptation that premiered in Japan in July 2014.
[Via Kaori Nusantara]
