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The Full-Time Wife Escapist's Tsunami Umino Launches New Manga in December
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The December issue of Hakusensha's Melody magazine announced on Wednesday that it will launch a serialization of Tsunami Umino's previous one-shot manga Omiai Tantei Katabiranotsuji Nagi (Matchmaking Detective Nagi Katabiranotsuji) in the magazine's February 2027 issue on December 25. The series' launch will include the original one-shot (image below) that first debutedon Hakusensha's Hana Yume Ai digital manga magazine in 2018.
The manga tells the story of Nagi, the daughter of the prestigious Katabiranotsuji family. At a meeting for an arranged marriage, Nagi suddenly blurts to her prospect husband that she wants to visit his house. What is her true intention with the sudden and bizarre request?
Umino began the The Full-Time Wife Escapist (Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu) manga in November 2012, and ended the manga in February 2020. Kodansha shipped the 11th and final compiled book volume in April 2020. The manga won the shojo category of the 39th Kodansha Awards. Kodansha USA Publishing publishes the manga digitally in English.
A live-action television series adaptation aired in Japan in fall 2016. A live-action special aired in December 2020.
Umino's Kuroema Chloe et Emma manga inspired a five-episode live-action mini-series adaptation, which debuted worldwide exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on June 12. Umino launched the manga in Kodansha's Kiss magazine in August 2022. Kodansha published the manga's fifth volume on August 12.
Source: Melody December issue and website
