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Elex Media Licenses Marie Antoinette, Otome Mania!! Manga
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Elex Media announced on Friday that it has licensed Fuyumi Soryo's Marie-Antoinette - La jeunesse d'une reine manga, and Yurino Tsukigase's Otome Mania!! manga.
Marie-Antoinette - La jeunesse d'une reine focuses on the lives of the titular queen and her husband King Louis XVI, beginning with Marie-Antoinette's youth as a 14-year-old girl arriving in France from Austria. The Palace of Versailles in France provided editorial supervision for the manga so that Soryo could faithfully reproduce the clothes, architecture, and etiquette customs of the time.
Soryo launched the manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine in August 2016, and Kodansha published the manga's one compiled book volume in September that same year.
Soryo published her Mars manga in Bessatsu Friend from 1996-2000. Elex Media published all 15 volumes of the manga, as well as the Mars Gaiden manga. The manga inspired a Taiwanese drama series in 2004-2005. A 10-episode Japanese live-action drama adaptation premiered in January 2016, and a film concluding the story premiered in June 2016. Elex Media is also releasing Soryo's Cesare historical manga that focuses on the Borgia family, in particular Cesare Borgia, the figure who would inspire Machiavelli's political essay The Prince. Elex Media published 10 volumes of the ongoing manga.
Seven Seas Entertainment releases Otome Mania!! in North America, and it describes the story:
Yuzumi Otome is a master gamer and game creator, and has finally landed her dream job in an otome game company. Now, she will do whatever it takes to conquer the industry. But is success worth it? Will it truly bring Yuzumi happiness? Or will she spend her days wallowing in anger and anxiety? What must Yuzumi do to release a successful game?!
The manga launched in Kadokawa's Sylph magazine in 2014, and the second and final volume shipped in Japan in October 2015.
Tsukigase drew a manga adaptation of Poni-Pachet's otome game OZMAFIA!! in 2012, and Futabasha published three compiled volumes. She also debuted the Tokyo Ravens: ANOTHER×holiday spinoff manga adaptation of Kōhei Azano's Tokyo Ravens light novel series in 2013. Kadokawa released five compiled volumes.
