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Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again's Kagiri Araido Launches New Manga on December 17
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The December issue of Kadokawa's Comic Alunna, a supplemental magazine for Comic Flapper magazine, revealed on Monday that manga author Kagiri Araido will launch a new manga titled Dungeon Band in the magazine's January 2025 issue on December 17.
The manga centers on the girls band Mayonnaise, who gets zero live audience when they perform. The band asks a god for anyone to watch their performance, then someone appears in front of them.
Araido launched the Jiisan Baasan Wakagaeru (Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again) manga on pixiv in October 2019, and it has since garnered over 100 million views. The manga was ranked #6 in the Web Manga category of the sixth "Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō" in 2020. Kadokawa published the manga's eighth and final volume on June 21. The series has one million copies in circulation (including digital purchases).
The manga inspired a television anime that premiered on April 7. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Source: Comic Alunna December issue
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