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Ui Kashima Launches New Bukimi no Tani-kun Manga

The April issue of Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine revealed on Tuesday that Ui Kashima (I Belong to the Baddest Girl at School, pictured right) will launch a new manga titled Bukimi no Tani-kun (The Uncanny Tani) in the Young Ace Up manga website on Wednesday. The manga's title is a play on the robotics and realism concept of "the uncanny valley" (bukimi no tani).

The manga is set in a near-future world where humanoid robots are commonplace, used for anything like labor, housework, socializing, and more. The manga centers on Komiyama, a teenager whose household is one of the rare ones that lacks a humanoid robot. One day, she receives a humanoid robot named Tani in the mail. The moment the robot sees her, he falls in love and confesses to her on the spot.

Ui Kashima launched the I Belong to the Baddest Girl at School manga in Young Ace Up in December 2017, and ended it in January 2021. Kadokawa published seven compiled book volumes for the manga. One Peace Books is releasing the manga in English, and it released the seventh and final volume in June 2023.

Source: Young Ace April issue

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