Kodoani.com – On April 25, Weekly Young Magazine revealed that the Kiseki Himura manga is Tawawa on Monday (Getsuyōbi no Tawawa) will be on hiatus until the magazine’s 29th issue on June 20.
The manga series began in 2015 when it was posted weekly on the Twitter account of artist Kiseki Himura . The main character, Ai, is a high school girl with huge breasts who encounters a businessman on the train to school. The frequent appearance of the girl on the train brightens up the man’s dreary Monday commute to work.
Himura publishes new illustrations for the series every Monday on his Twitter account. The manga also began serialization in Kodansha’s Young Magazine in November 2020. Kodansha published the manga’s fourth compiled book volume on April 4.
A full-page advertisement for the manga series for manga fans was published in the Nikkei on April 4 and has since been published by the United Nations Organization for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). criticize. Gender Equality Global issued a letter to the newspaper on April 11 saying the ad was “unacceptable” and asking for further clarification on its choice to print it.
The ad shows the main character Ai standing in a schoolgirl costume. The text reads, “I hope this is going to be a great week.” Kodansha placed an advertisement to promote the release of the manga’s fourth volume.
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) member Kenzo Fujisue shared an image of him holding volumes three and four of the Tawawa manga on Monday, making his views known following controversy stemming from an advertisement on the internet. full page.
The series also received comments from manga creators Love Hina and Ken Akamatsu about politics on Sunday. Akamatsu likened criticism from global gender equality organization UN Women to “external pressure” to regulate Japan’s “right to freedom of expression, especially with respect to manga, anime and games” and applied it. That force is not new. He further explained that such regulations should be approached sensibly and not followed just because an outside party is asking for it. Akamatsu’s definition of “external pressure” does not necessarily mean “outside Japan.” He used the removal of PSAs featuring virtual YouTuber Tojou Linka as an example.
The series adapted for a 12-episode short anime season that debuted on YouTube in October 2016, but YouTube deleted the first episode before reinstating it the same week. Starting with the second episode, NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan relaunched the series on Nico Nico Video. The anime’s Blu-ray disc includes two unreleased episodes.
The second season of the anime begins airing on Abema TV in September 2021.
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