Arata Aki Launches Enma Note: Jigoku Idol Project Manga
Aki built a decade-long Monthly Comic Gene run with A Destructive God Sits Next to Me and its 2020 television anime, and the new series returns to the same magazine with a premise that reworks the underworld into an idol audition, so the launch lands inside an established readership rather than a new one.
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Kadokawa's Comic Gene magazine announced Monday that Arata Aki will launch a new manga, Enma Note: Jigoku Idol Project, in its October issue on Tuesday. The story follows overworked denizens of hell whose workload grows after a certain death, and who hold idol auditions for the young men of hell to inspire hope. Aki's previous series include A Destructive God Sits Next to Me, which ended in April 2020.
The series is set to begin in the October issue of Kadokawa's Comic Gene, published Tuesday. Its premise places idol auditions in hell, staged for the young men of the underworld so the residents can recover some hope after a death raises their workload.
For Aki, the magazine is familiar ground. A Destructive God Sits Next to Me ran in Monthly Comic Gene from January 2013 to April 2020, with 12 compiled volumes from Kadokawa and a 12-episode anime in January 2020. Aki also launched Kawaii Sekai Seifuku in the same magazine in April 2022.
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