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Love and Lies' Musawo Launches New Manga
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The June issue of Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine announced on Tuesday that manga author Musawo will launch a new manga titled Kareshi Tokidoki Kanojo (My Boyfriend Sometimes is a Girlfriend) in the magazine's July issue on June 9.
The romantic comedy manga's story centers on Hodaka Akizuki, a 17-year-old high school student, who falls in love with the school madonna Chihaya Shishizaki. Hodaka bravely confesses to Chihaya, and they officially become a couple. But Hodaka actually keeps an unimaginable secret, even from his girlfriend Chihaya.
The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in Japan in July 2017. Sentai Filmworks streamed the television anime in the United States on Amazon Prime Video's Anime Strike channel, but it also streamed the title on digital outlets in "certain other countries."
The manga also inspired an original anime DVD (OAD) that shipped in November 2018 and was bundled with the eighth compiled book volume.
A separate live-action film adaptation opened in Japan in October 2017. Unlike the manga, which focuses on a love triangle composed of one boy and two girls, the movie has original characters, with a love triangle composed of one girl and two boys.
Source: Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine June issue
