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M&C! Licenses The Perfect Insider, My Love Story!!, Dreamin' Sun Manga

Indonesian publisher M&C! announced on Friday that it has licensed Kairi Shimotsuki's Everything Becomes F: The Perfect Insider, Aruko and Kazune Kawahara's My Love Story!!, Tamaki Ōjima's Our Chef-Owner is Actually... (Otome Chelim), and Ichigo Takano's Dreamin' Sun (Yume Miru Taiyō) manga. The company will begin releasing all four manga on August 30.

M&C! describes The Perfect Insider:

Assistant professor Sohei Saikawa and his student Moe Nishizono visit the Magata Research Institute, situated on a remote island, to visit the eccentric of the century: Shiki Magata. However, shortly after they arrive, they are embroiled in a mystery that involves a corpse with its arms cut off, bearing a wedding dress, inside a sealed room where there is no immediately evident way in or out. How did the body get there? And who killed her? The sealed room mystery investigation begins!

The manga adapts Hiroshi Mori's Subete ga F ni Naru: The Perfect Insider novel. Shimotsuki launched the manga in Kodansha's ARIA magazine in May 2015, and ended the manga in January 2016. Kodansha published the manga's second and final compiled book volume in March 2016.

Mori's original novel inspired a television anime in 2015, and a live-action television series also aired in Japan in 2015.

M&C! previously published all three volumes of Shimotsuki's Sengoku Basara Ran-Se-Ran-Bu (Sengoku Basara ~The Holy War in Dance~) manga.

M&C! describes My Love Story!!:

Takeo Goda, class 1, high school. Height: 2 meters. Weight: 120kg (both figures approximate). Every girl he likes ends up liking his handsome best friend, Sunakawa. However, Goda's earnestness and innocence makes him an instant friend with all the guys. But one day, when Goda helps out a girl getting harassed on the train, his romantic life begins to change. Will spring finally come to Goda's life? A romantic comedy full of tears, jokes, and laughter!

Kawahara and Aruko first debuted the original 100-page version of the story in an issue of Bessatsu Margaret Sister in October 2011, but the manga then returned in Bessatsu Margaret as a serialized work in 2012. The manga ended in July 2016.

A television anime of My Love Story!! debuted in April 2015, and a live-action film starring Ryōhei Suzuki and Mei Nagano opened in October 2015. Animax Asia began airing the anime last December in Southeast Asia. Odex screened the live-action film in various Southeast Asian territories in March 2016.

M&C! describes Our Chef-Owner is Actually...:

You Misora is the owner and head chef of Le Beau Ciel, a French restaurant. Because of his good looks, a lot of the girls in town eat at the restaurant just so that they can experience being served by him. However, despite his looks and popularity, in truth he is actually...

Ōjima launched the four-panel comedy series in Hobunsha's Manga Time Original magazine in 2011, and ended it in 2014. Hobunsha published the manga's third and final compiled book volume in August 2014.

M&C! describes Dreamin' Sun:

Shimana has been lost with nowhere to go ever since her mother passed away. After her father remarried and had a new son with his new family, Shimana no longer feels like she belongs anywhere. When she runs away and has a chance encounter with the owner of a very unique apartment, her life begins to change.

Takano launched the manga in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine in 2007, and ended it in 2011. Shueisha published 10 compiled book volumes for the manga. Futabasha now has the license to release the manga in Japan, and recently finished re-releasing all the volumes.

M&C! previously released the five main volumes of Takano's Orange manga. The manga ended in August 2015, and Futabasha published the fifth and final main story compiled book volume in November 2015.

The manga inspired a live-action film in December 2015 and a television anime that premiered in July 2016. The Orange -Mirai- (Orange: Future) anime film followup opened in Japan in November. The film retells the main story from Suwa's point of view and continues the story after the original manga and the television anime. Takano wrote a sixth volume of the manga that adapts Orange -Mirai-. The manga is also getting a seventh volume.

[Via Kaori Nusantara]