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M&C! Licenses Love Flowers, First Love Double Edge, The Eternal Zero Manga

Indonesian publisher M&C! announced on Tuesday that it has licensed Keiko Iwashita's Love Flowers (Hana o Meshimase), Mizue Odawara's First Love Double Edge (Hatsukoi Double Edge), and Souichi Moto's The Eternal Zero (Eien no 0) manga. The company will begin releasing all three manga on December 6.

M&C! describes Love Flowers:

High school girl Shion is stuck with her gambling addicted father, so she decides to find work to get away from home. She finds it in a flower shop where she begins as a live-in employee under the florist Mamiyuda, a tough but kind person. She begins to love taking care of flowers, and her heart begins to heal in kind. And with that healing comes romantic feelings toward Mamiyuda. But does Mamiyuda reciprocate her feelings?

Iwashita launched the manga in Kodansha's Dessert magazine in 2013, and ended it in 2014. Kodansha published the manga's one compiled book volume in 2014.

M&C! describes First Love Double Edge:

Amano Yo is a 17-year-old high school girl. One day, she meets Tono, a boy who could not have been more of her ideal guy in both looks and personality. It's love at first sight, especially when Yo confesses to Tono immediately after meeting him. In truth, Yo is fighting her every instinct since past trauma has made her hate men and think they are all wolves in intention. How can she still fall in love with one?

Odawara launched the manga under Futabasha's KoiYui label in 2013, and ended it with the eighth and final volume on October 17.

M&C! describes The Eternal Zero:

After their grandmother passes away, Kentaro and Keiko learn that the grandfather they have known all their lives is not their biological grandfather. A name surfaces: Kyuzo Miyabe, a suicide pilot who died performing his duty in the war. Why was this figure kept a secret from Kentaro and Keiko? A truth tightly sealed for 60 years begins to unfold.

The manga adapts Naoki Hyakuta's novel of the same name. The manga ran in Futabasha's Manga Action magazine from 2010 to 2012. Futabasha published five compiled book volumes for the manga. The novel also inspired a 2013 live-action film of the same name, which became the top-grossing domestic film in Japan in 2014 (as the film opened on December 21, 2013, it is counted in the beginning of the movie year for 2014). The novel also inspired a three-episode live-action television special in 2015.

Moto's Megumi manga about North Korean abductee Megumi Yokota inspired an original net animation in 2008.