Vertical Licenses Two Manga for Fall 2018

Comedy works “Pop Team Epic” and “The Delinquent Housewife” have both gained a license by Vertical as of Sunday. It was at Kodansha Comics’ New York Comic Con panel that the announcement was made for Bkub Okawa’s and Youko Nemu’s manga works respectively along with other announcements.

“Pop Team Epic” is a surreal four-panel manga that tells the adventures of 14-year-old girls the short Popuko and the tall Pipimi and the short Popuko. It was first released in the Manga Life Win website in 2014 by Okawa before ending in 2015 then gained a compiled book volume by Takeshobo the same year. In Feburary 2016, a “second season” of the series was released Okawa before ending in April 30 he turned to a second volume released by Takeshobo on June 7.

A “third season” of the series is already set for Tuesday and for the manga side of the series, it is already slated for fall 2018. Currently Kamikaze Douga is working on a anime adaptation of the series and is set to premiere the self-proclaimed “crappy anime” in January, following a delay from its planned October debut.

Youko Nemu’s manga, “The Delinquent Housewife” on the other hand, is a slapstick comedy manga the is slated for fall 2018 as well. The manga was first launched in 2015 under the publication of  Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits and is recently had its fourth volume published in January.

The story of the series tells of a second-year high school student whose older brothers wife moves into the family home. Though the move was only meant to last until the new couple found a home for themselves, trouble arises as the older brother is suddenly called overseas for business.

Now the younger brother and his other family are left to care for the new wife and things are not going to be as easy as it seems as the younger brother soon finds his image of a ideal housewife completely shattered upon discovering that his sister-in-law is in fact completely at cooking and cleaning.

On another note, Vertical will also be releasing NisiOisin’s Monogatari Series books Hanamonogatari and Otorimonogatari in June and August 2018, respectively. Featured in the release of Kodansha Comics’ Nekomonogatari White, Nekomonogatari (Black), and Kabukimonogatari are new cover art.

Source: AnimeNewsNetwork