Akira Hiramoto and Muneyuki Kaneshiro, the creators of Prison School and Blue Lock, respectively, launched a new manga titled Super Ball Girls on Oct 14.
As detailed on MyAnimeList, Shogakukan is serializing the new series, which Kaneshiro writes and Hiramoto illustrates, in its Big Comic Superior magazine. According to the magazine's description, Super Ball Girls is a blend of multiple genres, including science fiction, fantasy and horror. This new manga is the first-ever collaboration between Hiramoto and Kaneshiro.
Blue Lock and Prison School Were Both Serialized by Kodansha
Kaneshiro is best known for their work on the Blue Lock manga, which launched in Kodansha's Weekly Shounen Magazine in August 2018. Blue Lock, which Kaneshiro wrote while Yuusuke Nomura did the art, is a sports manga that revolves around soccer. Its story begins when Anri Teirei, a newly hired recruit of the Japan Football Association, decides to take a fresh approach with Japanese Soccer Players to ensure that they take home the next World Cup. She hires Jinpachi Ego, who takes 300 of Japan's best soccer players and sends them to a highly-advanced training facility where, via the process of elimination, he will eventually find the nation's ultimate player. Blue Lock's main protagonist is Yoichi Isagi, who, despite being ranked 299 out of 300, is determined to win out over the competition. A Blue Lock anime adaptation, produced by 8 bit and directed by Tetsuaki Watanabe, debuted on Oct. 8.
Kodansha serialized the Prison School manga in its Weekly Young Magazine from February 2011 to December 2017. This sex comedy manga, which Hiramoto wrote and illustrated, revolves around a teenage boy named Kiyoshi Fujino, who is one of five boys to be enrolled in Hachimitsu Private Academy, a prestigious school that recently opened its doors to a select few young men. Although Fujino is extremely excited to get acquainted with his female peers, he soon realizes that he must contend with a Draconian School Code that punishes even minor offenses by sentencing the offender to imprisonment within the school's Prison Block.
After Fujino and the four other male students get caught trying to break into the girl's bathing area, they are presented with a harsh choice, either spend a month in the Prison Block or be expelled. The five boys choose to remain at the school, hoping that after their sentence, the school's roster of beautiful girls will welcome them with open arms. J.C. Staff adapted Prison School into a 12-episode series that debuted in July 2015 and concluded in September 2015. Tsutomu Mizushima directed the series, while Michiko Yokote (Gintama) wrote the script.
Super Ball Girls does not currently have an English-language release window.
Source: MyAnimeList