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Elex Media Licenses Koi, Suru ka Ochiru ka, Tegami Manga

Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on Sunday that it has licensed Sunao Nagae's Koi, Suru ka Ochiru ka and Tachibana Higuchi's Tegami manga. The company will release both manga on December 21.

Koi, Suru ka Ochiru ka contains five short one-shot manga. In the first story, titled "Bihin Sōko no Hanako-san," a serious and passionate worker named Hana is the head of her company's storage room, despite the pressures of her job. One day, Hirosaki, a handsome man around whom many company rumors circulate, comes by the room and asks Hana to hide him for a little while. In the second story, titled "Tetsujin 2-Gō wa Kizutsukanai," Shiika, a responsible woman nicknamed the "Iron Woman," is nevertheless constantly rejected in her romantic adventures, with men always saying they have another woman. One day, she meets a man named Ida, who already has a girlfriend. Other stories include "Takane no Hana Tsumanu Shugi," "Coffee no Samenai Kyori," and "Natsu wa Mijikashi Koi Seyo Otome."

Nagae and Shogakukan published the book in January 2015.

Tegami centers around two sisters. The older sister, Satsuki, has a complicated and awkward relationship with her younger sister Mei, as well as their father, who works in the entertainment industry. Because of a certain incident, Satsuki and Mei begin writing letters to each other, becoming the only bond they share with one another.

Higuchi published the one-shot manga in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine in 2014. Hakusensha published the one compiled book volume of the manga in August 2014. Higuchi ended her long-running Gakuen Alice manga in the same magazine in 2013. Gakuen Alice inspired a 26-episode television anime series in 2004-2005.