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M&C! Licenses Vongola Grand Prix Manga

Indonesian publisher M&C! announced on Monday that it has licensed Toshinori Takayama's Vongola Grand Prix (Vongola GP Kuru!) spinoff manga, and will release the first volume on July 20. It has also slated its release of the first volume of Haruichi Furudate's Haikyu!! manga for July 20.

Vongola Grand Prix is a spinoff of Akira Amano's Reborn! manga. The spinoff is set in a different world and centers on the constant last-place racer Tsuna. To achieve his goal of becoming the best racer, he teams up with the baby racer Reborn!. Reborn! pushes him to bring out the best in himself as a racer in a series of deadly races.

Takayama launched the manga in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump magazine in 2010, and ended it in 2012. Shueisha published three compiled book volumes for the series. M&C! publishes Amano's Reborn! series in Indonesia, and released the manga's 12th volume last December.

Haikyu!!'s story follows Shōyō Hinata, who began playing volleyball in elementary school after seeing the "Little Giant," a legendary volleyball player. He suffers a crushing defeat in his first and last tournament in middle school at the hands of his rival Tobio Kageyama. So, Hinata joins Kurasuno High School's volleyball team, the high school of his hero, vowing revenge against Kageyama.

Furudate launched the manga in Sheuisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2012. Shueisha published the manga's 21st compiled book volume on May 2. The manga has inspired two television anime series – with a third season premiering this fall – two anime compilation films, a stage play adaptation, novel adaptations, and a Nintendo 3DS game.

[Via Kaori Nusantara]