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Elex Media Licenses Boku wa Coffee ga Nomenai, Miriam Manga

Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced on Friday that it has licensed Yukie Fukuda and Moka Yoshiki's Boku wa Coffee ga Nomenai (I Can't Drink Coffee) and Kyouko Hikawa's Miriam (Koya no Tenshi domo) manga. It will publish the first volumes of both manga on September 13.

Boku wa Coffee ga Nomenai centers on Hanayama, an employee who works at a beverage company despite not drinking Coffee, and his boss Kagatani. Both of them focus their efforts on their company's "Third Wave Coffee" project, but Hanayama can't tell his secret to his co-workers. As they conduct business, the pair find rivals both inside and outside their company, as well as valuable friends, all as they experience different kinds of Coffee.

Fukuda and Yoshiki launched the manga in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine in May 2014, and it entered a hiatus in September of that year. It resumed in August 2016, and ended last November. Shogakukan published the manga's seventh compiled book volume on January 30.

Miriam is set in the American Old West, and centers on the titular character Miriam, and eight-year-old tomboy. She and her father, along with her pet pig Willy, lived nomadic lives, until her alcoholic gambler of a father passed away. Grace, an older woman and the owner of a ranch, took her in. As Miriam grows up, she forms a strong friendship and eventual romance with the cowboy and gunman Douglas.

Hikawa launched the manga in Hakusensha's LaLa magazine in 1983, and ended it in 1984. Hakusensha published three compiled book volumes for the series, but it was also recompiled into two bunko format volumes. Hikawa followed up the manga with two sequel series. The first, titled Jikan o Tomete Matteite, ran in LaLa from 1985 to 1988, and had three volumes. The second, titled Sorenari ni Romantic, ran for three issues of LaLa magazine in 1989, and had one volume.

Elex Media is also publishing Hikawa's Kanata Kara manga under the title Dunia Mimpi, and it released the seventh volume in February 2015.