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Sekirei's Gokurakuin to Launch Brave Star Romantics Manga
posted on by Karen Ressler
This year's 21st issue of Square Enix's Young Gangan announced on Friday that Sakurako Gokurakuin (Sekirei) will launch a new romance action manga titled Brave Star ☆ Romantics in the next issue on November 6. The magazine describes the series as "a romance-action story with shortcut superpowers."
The magazine will also debut the four-panel manga Akai-san wa Kyō mo Tsunderu. by writer Junichi Odaka (Isoshime! Nioka-sensei) and artist Daisuke Noda. The manga about a female shogi player was first published as a one-shot in August.
Gokurakuin ended her Sekirei manga in August. She began the series in 2004 and the series inspired two anime adaptations in 2008 and 2010. Funimation has released both anime in North America. Yen Press announced in July that it will release the Sekirei manga digitally.
Gokurakuin launched the manga series Kaisei no Caricature in Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan in September. She is credited with the original idea, setting, and storyboarding, while Hiromu Mogi is writing the story and Sora Gōto is providing the art.
