{"rewrite":{"id":"r_a04ad4fbefb58826cead4b31","clusterId":"c_fb4fbafe7d1be5ce2113117e","slug":"yu-aoki-and-yuto-yotsuba-launch-boat-racing-manga-boat-girl","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Yū Aoki and Yuto Yotsuba Launch Boat Racing Manga Boat Girl","summary":"Magilumiere Co. Ltd. creator Yū Aoki said on Friday that she and Ya Boy Kongming! creator Yuto Yotsuba have launched a new boat racing manga titled Boat Girl on the Piccoma platform. Yotsuba is credited with the original concept. Aoki wrote Magilumiere with artist Sekka Iwata; Yotsuba writes Ya Boy Kongming! with artist Ryō Ogawa, and co-launched Tokyo Kinoko in August 2025.","whyItMatters":"Two creators with running commercial manga are pairing on a Piccoma launch, a placement outside the Shueisha and Kodansha web services their current series call home.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eBoat Girl is a boat racing manga, a subject neither Aoki nor Yotsuba has worked in with their current serializations. Yotsuba takes the original concept credit, with Aoki announcing the launch on her own X account on Friday. The two carry different publishing records: Aoki and Iwata ran Magilumiere Co. Ltd. on Shueisha\u0026#39;s Shonen Jump+ from October 2021 to its 160th chapter in July 2025, while Yotsuba writes Ya Boy Kongming! with Ryō Ogawa, which began on Kodansha\u0026#39;s Comic Days in December 2019 and later ran in Weekly Young Magazine.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Boat Girl is Yuto Yotsuba's second new series inside a year, after Tokyo Kinoko in August 2025. Yū Aoki joins as writer while he supplies only the original concept.","twitterPost":"Boat Girl has Yuto Yotsuba on original concept only. Yū Aoki does the writing this time.","threadsPost":"Boat Girl pairs Yū Aoki on writing with Yuto Yotsuba on original concept, a division of labor neither uses on their own series. The two creators usually work opposite an artist.","newsletterBlurb":"Yū Aoki, who wrote Magilumiere Co. Ltd. with artist Sekka Iwata through its final chapter in July 2025, announced a new manga with Ya Boy Kongming! creator Yuto Yotsuba. It is titled Boat Girl, a boat racing series, and it launched on Piccoma on Friday. Yotsuba is credited with the original concept.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-22/magilumiere-co-ltd-creator-yu-aoki-ya-boy-kongming-creator-yuto-yotsuba-launch-new-manga/.242066\",\"title\":\"Magilumiere Co. Ltd. Creator Yū Aoki, Ya Boy Kongming! Creator Yuto Yotsuba Launch New Manga\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4459,"outputTokens":653,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791078262,"createdAt":"2026-10-04T01:41:02.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-04T01:43:21.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T01:43:21.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_fb4fbafe7d1be5ce2113117e","canonicalTitle":"News\nMagilumiere Co. Ltd. Creator Yū Aoki, Ya Boy Kongming! Creator Yuto Yotsuba Launch New Manga","representativeArticleId":"a_285c175d07584436fe751390","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Boat Girl\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Yū Aoki\",\"Yuto Yotsuba\"],\"type\":\"announcement\",\"domain\":\"manga\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-09-22T19:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-09-22T19:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T01:43:20.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-09-22/magilumiere-co-ltd-creator-yu-aoki-ya-boy-kongming-creator-yuto-yotsuba-launch-new-manga/.242066","title":"News\nMagilumiere Co. Ltd. Creator Yū Aoki, Ya Boy Kongming! Creator Yuto Yotsuba Launch New Manga"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Boat Girl"],"studios":[],"people":["Yū Aoki","Yuto Yotsuba"],"type":"announcement","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}