Image source: Comic Alive September issue — via Anime News Network
The September issue of Kadokawa's Comic Alive magazine revealed on Monday that Gosei Furukawa will launch a new romantic comedy manga titled Jūmonji-kun Shika Mienai!! (Juumonji in Sight!) in Kadokawa's Alive+ online magazine on August 23. The manga will launch with three chapters.
The manga centers on Asahi Nishizono, a girl who is all set to reinvent herself and seekromance upon entering high school, but encounters her childhood friend Toya Jūmonji at hernew school. Somehow, Jūmonji's large body and offbeat genius keeps attracting Asahi's attention, and she finds herself unable to look away from him.
Furukawa launchedthe My Life as Inukai-san's Dog (Inu ni Nattara Suki na Hito ni Hirowareta, literally IfI Became a Dog I Would be Picked Up by the Person I Like) manga in Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine R in 2020, and the manga also ran on the Magazine Pocket website. The manga stopped running on Magazine Pocket in March 2022, and instead began running on the Suiyōbi no Siriusand YanMaga Web sites in addition to Shōnen Magazine R. The manga ended its serializationin Shōnen Magazine R in January 2023 when the magazine ceased publication, and transferred to the Getsu Maga Kichi online magazine.
Kodansha published the manga's ninth and final compiled book volume in July 2023.
The manga inspired a television anime that debuted in January 2023. HIDIVE streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.