The November issue of Kodansha‘s Dessert announced that Yamamori Mika’s Uruwashi no Yoi no Tsuki (“In the Clear Moonlit Dusk”) will go on hiatus, citing Yamamori’s poor health conditions and decision to take a break to focus on recovery as the reason; the series is scheduled to resume in the magazine’s April 2024 issue. Yamamori confirmed the news on her Twitter account with an emote of apology and an illustration.
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Also known for Sugars and Tsubaki-chou Lonely Planet, Yamamori began publishing the series on Dessert on July 21, 2020. As of May 2023, it has reached six tankoubon volumes. In June 2021, Kodansha USA licensed the series in English and later released it in print in Fall 2022.
Takiguchi Yoi’s boyish looks and husky voice have a lot of girls at her school swooning over her, nicknaming her “Prince” and comparing her to a shoujo manga male protagonist. She is not entirely fond of it, since there isn’t much she can do about her appearance. One day she has a chance encounter with fellow student Ichimura Kohaku, a handsome young man who received the same nickname and has all sorts of rumours about his family’s wealth and status circulating. Yoi isn’t sure how much of that is true, and Ichimura himself is overly blunt and unpredictable. But he is also the first person to actually treat her like a girl in a long while…
