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Sweetness & Lightning Creator Gido Amagakure's Yurayura Q Comedy Manga Gets TV Anime

A website opened on Monday to announce that a television anime adaptation of Gido Amagakure's Yurayura Q manga has been green-lit.

The "heartwarming comedy" follows Kyūko, a high school girl who was born to a human and a fox. Although she has eight beautiful, talented older siblings, she worries about being just ordinary, and she cannot control her fox charm powers well. Her childhood friend Haru-chan tells her that he find her charming and totally adores her, but still …. The fox girl Kyūko works hard for everyone and for herself.

Amagakure launched the manga in Hakusensha's The Hana to Yume Fantasy magazine in October 2019, and will end the manga on July 27. Hakusensha shipped the fifth compiled book volume on January 20.

Amagakure launched the 12-volume Sweetness & Lightning (Amaama to Inazuma) manga in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon magazine in 2013, and ended it in August 2018. Kodansha USA Publishing originally began releasing the manga digitally in English before it began print releases. Crunchyroll published new chapters as Kodansha published them in Japan, although it no longer hosts catalog chapters. The manga inspired a 12-episode anime that premiered in July 2016 and streamed on Crunchyroll.

Amagakure launched A Galaxy Next Door (Otonari ni Ginga) manga in Good! Afternoon in April 2020, and ended it in May 2023. The manga got an epilogue in June 2023. Kodansha published the manga's sixth and final volume in July 2023. Kodansha USA Publishing licensed the manga's sixth volume in May 2024. The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in April 2023. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and also streamed an English dub. The manga also inspired a live-action series that premiered in April 2023.

Amagakure debuted the Tomoshibi Kara Sparkle (The Sparkle From the Lamp) manga in Kodansha's Good! Afternoon magazine on April 7. 

Source: Yurayura Q anime's website, Comic Natalie