A Manga Adaptation this August: The Irregular at magic high school Film

Only 5 weeks since “the irregular at magic high school The Movie: The Girl Who Summons the Stars” a.k.a. “Gekijōban Mahōka Kōkō no Rettōsei: Hoshi o Yobu Shoujo’s” film debut and the September issue of Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine reveals on Thursday that the film will be receiving a manga adaptation.

Set to be released on August 26 in the magazine’s next issue, Pinakes, who drew the manga adaptation of the “Aldnoah.Zero’s” television anime based on the anime’s first season, will be taking the role of the manga’s illustrator.

Originally, the series was released as a light novel series before it received a manga adaptation with Fumino Hayashi as the storyboard artist and Tsutomu Satou as the illustrator. The series was then was serialized between GFantasy’s January 2012 and October 2013 issues and currently work was being done on the final arc of the series.

It was in April 2014 that an anime adaptation of the series made its debut and ran for a total of 26 episodes before ending on September 27, 2014. Two years later in March 2016, a film was officially confirmed for the series.

The film made its first debut in Japan on June 17 and was followed by a U.S. premiere hosted by Aniplex of America from July 1-4. In its opening weekend the film sold about 107,000 tickets and earned 163 million yen (about US$1.47 million) with a #5 ranking in the Japanese box office. By July 18, the film surpassed 500 million yen (about US$4.46 million) in earnings.

The story made for the film tells of “irregular” elder brother Tatsuya and his smart younger sister Miyuki as they realize that with the spring season upon them, their first year at Magic High School is reaching to a close. Along with their friends, the siblings decide to spend their spring break by staying at a private villa on Ogasawara Island. But their peaceful vacation does not last long as a mysterious young girl named Kokoa suddenly appears before them. Having escaped from a naval base, she has appeared to tell Tatsuya her one wish.

Source: AnimeNewsNetwork