This yr’s fiftieth subject of Kodansha‘s Morning journal revealed on Thursday that Shū Okimoto is launching a brand new manga titled Yoshiwara Platonic within the journal’s subsequent subject on November 18. Okimoto is drawing the artwork, whereas Fujikawa Yotsuba is writing the story. The journal teases the manga as centering on a platonic relationship between a food-loving courtesan and an otaku samurai.

The manga facilities on Sadachika, an Edo interval samurai who’s obsessive about ukiyo-e artwork. In an effort to show him the methods of successful over girls, Sadachika’s father takes him to one of the crucial desired courtesans of the Yoshiwara crimson mild district, the high-ranking tayū Murasaki. Sadachika is nervous when he meets Murasaki, however what finally ends up beginning their relationship is Sadachika’s home-made cooking.

Okimoto had posted on the Ganmo manga artist and assistant matching service in September that she was launching a brand new manga in Morning.

Siblings Shin and Yuko Kibayashi — beneath the pen identify Tadashi Agi — launched The Drops of God manga with artist Okimoto in Kodansha‘s Morning journal 2004. A live-action collection based mostly on the manga aired in Japan in 2009. The manga resulted in June 2014, and the forty fourth and remaining compiled guide quantity shipped in July 2014. The manga’s remaining arc, titled Marriage ~Kami no Shizuku Saishūshō~ (Marriage ~The Drops of God Last Arc~), launched in Could 2015, and it ended in October 2020.

Comixology and Kodansha Comics have launched the manga in English digitally.

All through its serialization, the manga had famously boosted the gross sales of wines profiled within the story. The French wine journal La Revue du vin de France has acknowledged the manga, giving it the journal’s high award in 2010. The New York Occasions additionally profiled the manga in its Eating and Wine part in 2008.

The manga is inspiring a brand new upcoming live-action tv collection that can be multilingual as a collaboration between U.S., French, and Japanese firms.

Supply: Morning subject 50 and web site