Kadokawa announced this week that manga artist Akatsuki Akira will start a manga adaptation of Aosaki Yugo’s Jirai Glico (Glico With Landmines) light novel in October 2024.
The manga adaptation by Akatsuki (Medaka Box, BOXER’s BLAST, Contractor M&Y, and Juni Taisen: Zodiac War) will launch in this year’s 20th issue of Hakusensha’s Young Animal magazine, which will be available for sale on October 11th.
The original Jirai Glico novel by Aosaki (Undead Girl Murder Farce, Gas-tou Norainu Tanteidan) was published by Kadokawa in November 2023. Since then, it has won the Honkaku Mystery Award, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, and the Yamamoto Shugoro Award and was nominated for the 171st Naoki Prize.
Kadokawa describes the original story below:
Imoriya Mato is a high school girl who is extremely good at competitive games. Although she desires peace, she gets caught up in a number of unusual games in her daily life. She climbs stairs while trying to read the positions of traps (“Jirai Glico”) and challenges herself to a game of concentration using picture cards from the Hyakunin Isshu (“Bozu Weakness”). What awaits Mato as she defeats strong opponents one after another? This is a full-scale brain battle novel by the leading figure in the mystery world, in a total of five stories.
