Houbunsha today officially confirmed that a TV anime adaptation of Yuiko Tokumi's slice-of-life four-panel manga Slow Start is now in the works. The news was revealed on the latest June 2017 issue of the publisher's Manga Time Kirara monthly magazine released today in Japan, and at the same time, the manga author posted a newly drawn illustration to announce the news on her official Twitter account.
ありがとうございます！ pic.twitter.com/o65BhxrnqT
— 篤見スロウスタート３巻まで発売中です (@1093yuiko) May 8, 2017
The author Tokumi is best known for her character design and manga works for the Binzume Yousei/Bottle
Fairy franchise in 2002-2005. Her fourth serialization work Slow Start has been serialized in Manga Time
Kirara since its July 2013 issue and the manga's latest fourth tankobon volume is set for release on June 27.
The story centers on Hana Ichinose who failed her entrance exams to high school due to the mumps that
she caught the day before them. One year later, she becomes a high school student, but hiding the fact she
is one year older than other students.
Cover of the June 2017 issue of Manga Time Kirara
スロウスタート：「まんがタイムきらら」の人気マンガがテレビアニメ化 https://t.co/eMknJqmTLK pic.twitter.com/zBiiMn6qCC
— MANTANWEB (まんたんウェブ) (@mantanweb) May 8, 2017
"Slow Start" tankobon 1st volume cover
2nd volume
3rd volume
Source: Yuiko Tokumi Twitter, Mantan Web
© Yuiko Tokumi/Houbunsha Co.,Ltd.
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