The author Chika umino announced through his official Twitter account that the sixteenth volume of the manga man Sangatsu not a lion (March comes in like a lion) is due to be released in Japan at the end of September 2021. This will be the first volume of the manga twenty-one months after it was last published.
The manga is published through the magazine Cub from the publisher Hakusensha since July 2007, and the publisher published the fifteenth anthology in Japan in December 2019. The work has a circulation of more than three million copies and was highly praised by critics and won the “Grand Prix” in the 18th Tezuma Osaku Culture Prize. The piece inspired a twenty-two episode anime adaptation produced by the studios. WAVE, released in October 2016. A second season, also with 22 episodes, was released in October 2017, and to date there is no news about the production of a new sequel.
Summary of Sangatsu no lion
Rei Kiriyama achieved professional status in high school and is one of the few elites in the shogi world. Because of this, he is facing tremendous pressure from both the Shogi community and his adoptive family. In search of independence from her tense private life, she moves into an apartment in Tokyo. As a 17-year-old living alone, Rei tends to be poorly looking after himself and his lonely personality excludes him from his peers at school and in the shogi hall.
Shortly after arriving in Tokyo, however, Rei meets Akari, Hinata and Momo Kawamoto, a trio of sisters who live with their grandfather and who own a traditional Wagashi shop. Akari, the eldest of the three girls, is determined to combat Reiss loneliness and unsupported lifestyle with maternal hospitality. The Kawamoto sisters, who grapple with past tragedies, also share a unique family bond with Rei that she has missed for most of her life. As she struggles to assert herself physically and mentally throughout her shogi career, Rei must learn to interact with others and understand her own complex emotions.
Fountain: Official Twitter account
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