{"rewrite":{"id":"r_3078d1eab9759b7feed65b1e","clusterId":"c_819c587db306e711a4c0c22a","slug":"sekina-aoi-s-asobi-no-kankei-novels-get-manga-adaptation","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Sekina Aoi's Asobi No Kankei Novels Get Manga Adaptation","summary":"Hakusensha's Young Animal magazine announced that Sekina Aoi's Asobi no Kankei novels will be adapted into a manga by Koruri, starting in the next issue on September 25. Kurehito Misaki is credited as character designer. The story follows Kotarou Tokiwa, a substitute manager at a board game cafe who invents an imaginary girlfriend to hide his crush on a coworker.","whyItMatters":"The adaptation moves Aoi's board-game cafe comedy onto the page just after the fourth novel shipped in August, keeping the series in Hakusensha's magazine orbit alongside Aoi's other ongoing manga.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe announcement ran in the 18th issue of Hakusensha\u0026#39;s Young Animal, with the adaptation set to begin in the following issue on September 25. Koruri handles the manga, and Kurehito Misaki, who illustrates the novels, is credited as character designer.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKadokawa\u0026#39;s Fujimi Fantasia Bunko publishes the novels and shipped the fourth volume on August 20. Aoi\u0026#39;s other serialization, My Crush\u0026#39;s Crush with Ryō Tsuzura, runs in Young Animal Zero and has an anime in the works.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Koruri draws the Asobi No Kankei manga, but Kurehito Misaki stays credited as character designer. The novels' art identity passes to a different hand than the one that defined it.","twitterPost":"Kurehito Misaki designed Asobi No Kankei's characters, but Koruri draws the manga. The adaptation hands the visual identity to a new artist.","threadsPost":"Kurehito Misaki is credited as character designer on the Asobi No Kankei manga, yet Koruri draws it for Hakusensha's Young Animal. The novels' visual identity carries over on paper while a different artist executes it, and the September 25 debut will show how that split reads on the page.","newsletterBlurb":"Hakusensha's Young Animal announced that Sekina Aoi's Asobi no Kankei novels will be adapted into a manga by Koruri, beginning in the next issue on September 25. Kurehito Misaki, the novel illustrator, is credited as character designer. Kadokawa's Fujimi Fantasia Bunko shipped the fourth novel on August 20.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-14/sekina-aoi-asobi-no-kankei-novels-get-manga-adaptation/.241786\",\"title\":\"Sekina Aoi's Asobi no Kankei Novels Get Manga Adaptation\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4431,"outputTokens":594,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1789519465,"createdAt":"2026-09-16T00:38:30.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-09-16T00:43:20.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-16T00:43:20.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_819c587db306e711a4c0c22a","canonicalTitle":"News\nSekina Aoi's Asobi no Kankei Novels Get Manga Adaptation","representativeArticleId":"a_c4c8dd9132e92d7122fe17ec","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[\"Asobi no Kankei\"],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[\"Hakusensha\"],\"people\":[\"Sekina Aoi\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"manga\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-16T00:43:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-14/sekina-aoi-asobi-no-kankei-novels-get-manga-adaptation/.241786","title":"News\nSekina Aoi's Asobi no Kankei Novels Get Manga Adaptation"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":["Asobi no Kankei"],"work_titles":[],"studios":["Hakusensha"],"people":["Sekina Aoi"],"type":"announcement","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}