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Ninja Girls' Hosana Tanaka Launches New Manga Based on Yoshiko Kawashima
posted on by Alex Mateo
This year's November issue of Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine revealed on Thursday that Hosana Tanaka (Ninja Girls) is launching a new manga titled Kawashima Yoshiko wa Otoko ni Naritai (Yoshiko Kawashima Wants to Become a Man) in the magazine's next issue on October 26.
The magazine teased that the manga's story will center on a character based on the real Yoshiko Kawashima, a female spy who worked for Japan and disguised herself as a man. The story will follow Kawashima during the interwar period of the Taishō era.
Tanaka began the Holy Corpse Rising (Seigai no Majo) manga series in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine in October 2014. Kodansha published the seventh and final volume in October 2018. Seven Seas licensed the series and released all seven volumes in English.
Del Rey Manga licensed Tanaka's Ninja Girls manga for North American release in 2008, and released four volumes before Kodansha Comics took over Del Rey's manga titles in 2010 and published the rest of the series. Tanaka was the former assistant and protégé of Takashi Shiina (GS Mikami Gokuraku Daisakusen!!, Zettai Karen Children).
Sources: Monthly Shonen Sirius' November issue and magazine's Twitter account
