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Shungiku Nakamura's Junjo Romantica Manga Gets Stage Play
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official Twitter account for Shungiku Nakamura's Junjo Romantica and The World's Greatest First Love manga franchises announced on Wednesday that Junjo Romantica is inspiring a stage play adaptation.
Nakamura launched the Junjo Romantica manga in Kadokawa's Asuka Ciel magazine in 2002, and she transferred it to the Emerald magazine in 2014. Kadokawa published the manga's 24th compiled book volume in Japan on August 30. Tokyopop published 12 English volumes of the manga under its BLU Manga imprint before it shut down its North American publishing operations in May 2011.
The manga inspired three television anime series in 2008 and 2015. The manga also inspired an original anime DVD (OAD) that shipped with the manga's 20th volume in December 2015.
The manga's spinoff series The World's Greatest First Love has inspired two television anime adaptations that aired in 2011. A film, Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi: Yokozawa Takafumi no Baai, opened in 2014. A new anime titled Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi ~Propose-Hen~ (The World's Greatest First Love: Proposal Arc) will screen in Japan in February.
Source: Junjo Romantica/The World's Greatest First Love franchise's Twitter account