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Kozueko Morimoto's Kōdai-ke no Hitobito Manga Ends
posted on by Anita Tai
Shueisha's Monthly You magazine published the final chapter of Kozueko Morimoto's Kōdai-ke no Hitobito manga in its April issue on Wednesday. The magazine also announced that while the main story is complete, a side story will be published in the May issue on April 15.
The story centers around Kie Hirano, a 30-year old female office worker with a large-scale imagination. She gets to know Mitsumasa Kōdai, a handsome colleague, who also happens to be a telepath who can read people's thoughts. Mitsumasa is charmed by Kie's personality, and they start a relationship. Mitsumasa's mother Yūko judges Kie to be unfit to marry her son, but the family matriarch Ann makes Yūko retract the statement. Now Ann teaches Kie how to be a proper lady, and Kie's life becomes intertwined with the Kōdai family.
Morimoto (Kenshūi Nanako, Deka Wanko) launched the Kōdai-ke no Hitobito manga in Shueisha's Monthly You magazine in February 2013, after publishing a one-shot "Kōdai-ke no Hitobito" manga in the magazine's December 2012 issue. Shueisha published the manga's fifth compiled book volume on May 25 in 2016, and will publish the sixth and final volume in May of this year. The series also inspired a live-action movie last May.
Morimoto's Gokusen manga has also received multiple live-action adaptations, including three television series in 2002, 2005, and 2008; two live-action television special in 2003 and in 2009; and a live-action film in July 2009. The manga also inspired a 13-episode TV anime series in 2004. Media Blasters released the anime in North America from 2004 to 2005.
Source: The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
