Award-winning Your Lie In April, author Naoshi Arakawa has announced a new romantic comedy manga titled “Banjou no Orion,” which will be published in Weekly Shounen Magazine issue 6/2024.
The manga will be out on January 10, 2024, and The story follows the life of a 15-year-old shogi (Japanese chess) player and his encounter with a genius female shogi player.
The manga is based in modern-day Japan. Banjou no Orion is the author’s third romance manga after Sayonara Football and Your Lie in April.
Readers of Your Lie in April are eager to explore Banjou no Orion. However, they hope this manga won’t be too traumatizing and tragic for their taste.
Some are hesitant to start the manga as they are still recovering from the emotional impact of Your Lie in April. Sayonara Football unfortunately did not receive the same hype as Your Lie In April, and readers were a bit disappointed.
Despite some skepticism, readers are willing to give Banjou no Orion a chance due to the author’s popularity, especially for his notable work, Your Lie in April, which has a massive global fan following.
So readers are skeptical whether Banjou no Orion would follow the same path as his other previous works.
Hopefully, they are still ready to give Banjou no Orion a chance since the author is popular for his most notable manga, Your Lie In April, which has a massive fan following all around the world.
Your Lie in April, the tragic romantic manga, was serialized in Kodansha from 2011 to 2015.
Naoshi Arakawa began the journey of Your Lie In April with a one-shot comic and later started drawing the manga from his original shot by taking inspiration from other musical manga.
Your Lie In April got a 22-episode anime adaptation in 2014 under A-1 Pictures. It later turned into a live-action film in 2016 starring Suzu Hirose and Kento Yamazaki.
Your Lie In April follows the story of high school student Kosei Arima, a piano prodigy who loses his hearing ability after the death of his mother.
A fateful encounter introduces Kosei to Kaori Miyazono, a violinist who shares his passion for music.
After a long hiatus, Kaori persuades Kosei to pursue his music career again by making him take part in a musical competition as her accompanist.
Other Major Works of Your Lie In April Author
Author Naoshi Arakawa debuted as a manga artist with The Time Stops on a Frozen Campus, a mystery psychological manga serialized in Kodansha, Japan, and later translated into English by the same publisher.
The storyline revolves around a high school boy who tragically takes his own life by jumping from the school roof during a school festival.
Two months later, Takano and Mizuki, two high school students, arrive at the school only to discover a few of their classmates present.
The peculiar emptiness of the entire school, despite it not being a holiday, raises their suspicions. As they discuss the student who ended his life during the school festival, an unsettling reality emerges: none of them can recall who this student was when attempting to leave.
The group finds themselves unable to exit the school as all doors are mysteriously locked, and the clock remains frozen at the moment of the student’s suicide.
Takano and his friends grapple with the strangeness of the situation. Though only two months had passed since their classmate’s death, none of them could remember the identity of the person who took their own life.
The mystery deepens as they confront the unsettling reality that the lost soul is someone among them.
All of them had only one option: to find out the identity of the dead person and get back to their lives.
But the more they tried to get out of the school, the closer they got to discovering the identity of their dead classmate.
Where To Read Your Lie In April
Readers can find all the chapters of Your Lie In April in manga on Kodansha and Manga Planet in English. Your Lie In April Raw chapters are available on Kodansha Japan.
