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K-On! Manga's Last Installment Listed for September (Updated)
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A footnote on the bottom of Manga Time Kirara magazine lists the next installment as the final one. The September issue officially ships on Monday, and the next issue, cover-dated for October, will ship on September 9. The four- comedy manga follows a group of high school girls who form an afterschool rock band.
The ending of the current K-ON! manga series is not necessarily the ending of the K-ON! story as a whole. announced that the story will continue.
K-ON!!, the second television anime series TBS revealed in its financial results for the first quarter of the 2011 fiscal year that it earned 1.8 billion yen ($20 million) in sales of K-ON!! anime t-shirts and other tie-in characters goods.
[Via Uri-Sure Matome R]
Update: More background and story information added.
Update 2: The next-issue preview in the magazine's September issue also lists the final installment of K-ON! The fourth compiled book volume will ship on September 27. [Via Kyō mo Yarareyaku]
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