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Penerbit Haru Licenses Kotenbu Novel Series' Short Story Book
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian publisher Penerbit Haru announced last Friday that it has licensed Honobu Yonezawa's The Doll that Took a Detour (Tōmawari Suru Hina) novel, a book of short stories set in Yonezawa's Kotenbu series. The company asked readers to vote on one of two covers for the book.
The book contains eight short stories by Yonezawa, set over the course of one school year, and focuses on different members of the Classic Literature Club.
Yonezawa's Kotenbu (Classic Literature Club) novel series began with Hyōka, the first novel, in 2001. The Credit Roll of the Fool (Gusha no Endroll) novel then followed in 2002, Kudryavka no Junban in 2005, Tōmawari Suru Hina in 2007, Futari no Kyori no Gaisan in 2010, and Imasara Tsubasa o Iwaretemo in November 2016. Penerbit Haru released the Hyōka novel in December 2017, followed by Credit Roll of the Fool and The Kudryavka Sequence last year.
Kyoto Animation adapted some of the stories in the series into a 22-episode television anime series in 2012. The anime's character designs by Futoshi Nishiya served as the basis for the character designs in Task Ohna's manga, which launched in Kadokawa's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine in January 2011. Kadokawa published the manga's 11th compiled book volume in October 2017.
A live-action film adaptation starring Kento Yamazaki and Alice Hirose opened in Japan in November 2017.
Source: Penerbit Haru's Facebook page via Kaori Nusantara
