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To Love-Ru's Yabuki Confirmed for Mayoi Neko Overrun (Updated)
posted on by Egan Loo
The website for the Circle K and Sunkus convenience stores in Japan has confirmed, via an unreleased image for a promotional campaign, that Mayoi Neko Overrun! (Stray Cats Overrun!) romantic comedy light novels.
revealed that a manga adaptation of Mayoi Neko Overrun! had been green-lit for Shueisha's Jump Square magazine. However, the leaked web image is the first official, albeit third-party, confirmation of Yabuki's involvement in the Mayoi Neko Overrun! project.
The light novels' story revolves around Takumi Tsuzuki, a boy who lives with his older "sister" Otome, although the two have no blood ties between them. Otome manages a run-down confectionary store called Stray Cats. One day, Otome picks up a mysterious beautiful girl off the streets.
Seven light novels volumes have been written since 2008, and a television anime adaptation was Peco, the illustrator best known for the Sono Hanabira ni Kuchizuke o adult game series, created the light novels' original illustrations from which Yabuki is basing the manga's character designs.
Image © Tomohiro Matsu, Kentarō Yabuki, Peco/Shueisha
Update: Yabuki will also publish a one-shot manga story called "Futagami Double" in next year's combined 5th/6th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on January 4. That same day, a To Love-Ru art collection called Love Color will ship in Japan.
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