【Manga】Makoto Ojiro, Sankaku Head Each Launch New Manga in February

This year’s sixth issue of Shogakukan‘s Weekly Big Comic Spirits revealed on Saturday that manga authors Makoto Ojiro and Sankaku Headwill launch their respective new manga series in the coming issues of the magazine. Ojiro will launch a manga about comedy skits, with the original story written by a famous comedy skit teacher, in the magazine’s 10th issue on February 5. The manga’s title and story writer will be announced at a later date.

Sankaku Head will launch the temporarily titled Boku no Manamusume manga in the magazine’s 12th issue on February 19. The manga tells the story of a father and his daughter, and their life in the countryside.Ojiro launched the Insomniacs After School manga (image right) in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in May 2019, and ended in August 2023. Shogakukan published the manga’s 14th and final compiled book volume on October 12. Viz Media licensed the manga in English and will release the fifth volume on March 19.

The manga inspired an anime adaptation that premiered in Japan in April 2023.  the series as it aired in Japan. The music video for rock band Macaroni Enpitsu‘s “Enshin” song featured art from the manga in 2019.The manga also inspired a live-action film that premiered in Japan in June 2023.Sankaku Head most recently ended the Heisei Shōnen Dan manga in March 2023. The manga launched in Shueisha‘s Weekly Young Jump magazine in November 2021. Shueisha released the manga’s third and fourth volumes in April 2023.