Home NEWS Azuki Releasing Full-Color Print Editions of “Hikaru in the Light!”, “Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms” Manga

Azuki Releasing Full-Color Print Editions of “Hikaru in the Light!”, “Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms” Manga

Azuki is excited to announce a slew of new additions to its catalog, including Kotonoha, Ryoji Renjo: Gourmet Detective, Sweeter Than Cake, and Dreamnautes from MediBang!

At Anime NYC 2024, Azuki partnered with Scholastic Graphix to bring two exciting new manga titles to the English-speaking market: Mai Matsuda‘s Hikaru in the Light! and Yoshino Koyoka‘s Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms!

Image courtesy of Azuki

The first volume of Hikaru in the Light! will be available in March 2025, while Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms will ship in April 2025.

Yoshino Koyoka launched the manga adaptation of Mecha-Ude on the LINE Manga and ebookjapan services in September 2022. Azuki began releasing the manga in English under the title Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms in July 2023.

anime-nyc-2024-new-series.png
Image courtesy of Azuki

The full-fledged anime of Sae Okamoto‘s Mecha-Ude project will premiere in October. Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs under the title Mechanical Arms.

Matsuda launched the Hikaru in the Light! manga in Manga Action in May 2021, and ended it in August 2022. Futabasha published four compiled book volumes for the manga. Azuki licensed the manga, and released all four volumes in English.

Middle-school student Hikaru Ogino is known as the “songbird” of her family’s bath house in Tokyo. But when her best friend Ran — a former girl group idol — invites her to try out for a pop star “survival camp” together, it’ll put her talents to the test. Can Hikaru outshine the competition and make her stage debut, or will she fall flat?

Source: Email correspondence