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Elex Media Licenses Gido Amagakure's Sweetness & Lightning Manga

Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo revealed last Friday that it has licensed Gido Amagakure's Sweetness & Lightning (Amaama to Inazuma) manga and Setona Mizushiro's Sekai de Ichiban, Ore ga ◯◯ (I'm the Most __ in the World or The three Magi are still on a journey.) manga.

Sweetness & Lightning centers on Kouhei Inuzuka, a widower who does his best to raise his daughter Tsumugi as a single father. While he usually takes Tsumugi out to dinner, or buys convenience store food, he begins to notice Tsumugi miss home-cooked food. When a chance encounter allows Kouhei and Tsumugi to taste the cooking of Kouhei's student Kotori Iida, Kouhei embarks on a journey to learn home cooking for Tsumugi's sake.

Amagakure launched the manga in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon magazine in 2013. Kodansha published the manga's 10th compiled book volume on January 5. The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in July 2016. Aniplus-Asia aired a simulcast of the anime in Southeast Asia.

The Sekai de Ichiban, Ore ga ◯◯ manga follows three men — one who works for a foreign company, one who works for a "black company" (sweatshop-like working conditions), and one who is unemployed. The three happen to meet an eccentric girl who identifies herself as an agent of the organization known as "Sekai" (World), and tells them that after 300 days, the unhappiest among the three will get to have one wish granted.

Mizushiro launched the manga in Kodansha's Evening magazine in June 2016. Kodansha published the manga's fourth compiled book volume on February 23.

Elex Media released all nine volumes of Mizushiro's Un chocolatier de l'amour perdu (Shitsuren Chocolatier) manga. That manga received a live-action drama adaptation in 2014, and her Nōnai Poison Berry manga inspired a live-action film in 2015.