Kawashita Moves from ‘Ichigo’ to ‘Love Suicides’
At least, that’s the word on Oricon: Mizuki Kawashita, creator of the popular romantic comedy Ichigo 100%, is going to develop a manga based on the play Sonezaki Shinjuu (aka The Love Suicides at Sonezaki).
The play, written by Chikamatsu and first performed in the year 1703, is the tragic tale of a courtesan and a clerk who fall in love and kill themselves because he can’t afford to marry her.
Bit of a leap, eh? The new manga will run in Jump Square…looks like July? The headline also says it’s being made into a “cute” manga. Cute suicide? Yeah, I dunno either.
This worries me =/ It doesn’t look like it’s going to be a good adaptation at all =(
I would read it, if only for the art.
But the idea itself … DAAAAMN.
[...] from Japan: Gia reports that Strawberry 100% Mizuki Kawashita is working on a new manga based on the 1703 play Sonezaki [...]
I wonder how long the manga is going to be. Doesn’t seem like a topic you can draw out for very long.