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M&C! Licenses Planetes, Only the Youth Can Fly, Boys Next Door, Our Magical Love Manga

Indonesian publisher M&C! announced on Monday that it has licensed Makoto Yukimura's Planetes, Haru Emoto's Only the Youth Can Fly (Shishunki Hikō), Yui Harada's Boys Next Door (Otonari wa 1-Ken de 2-Do Oishii), and Yuka Shibano's Our Magical Love (Aitsu to Kanojo to Mahō no Te) manga.

Planetes is set in the near future, where humanity has developed space travel to have manned space stations in constant orbit, fledgling bases on the moon, and a small outpost on Mars. Human space activity has increased to such a degree that Earth's orbital debris has become a real concern in the continuation of manned spaceflight. The manga focuses on the Debris Section of of Technora Corporation, one of many corporate sections focused on clearing orbital debris. While the personnel of the debris section have their own points of view, and muse on the destiny of humanity and the future of space travel, other human forces seek to help or hinder the space program for their own ends.

Yukimura launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Morning magazine in 1999, and ended it in 2004. Kodansha published four compiled book volumes for the series. The manga inspired a 26-episode television anime series in 2003.

M&C! will begin publishing the manga in 2017.

M&C! describes Only the Youth Can Fly:

When they enter adolescence, there is a limited time when people can fly. Everyone experiences this brief period in life, and everyone can fly freely in the sky. They fly with a vengeance, reaching for things that they could never reach when they were children. The book contains six stories spurring the spirits of young teens!

The manga collects six short one-shot stories that Emoto published in Kodansha's Kiss and Kiss Plus magazines from 2009 to 2011. Kodansha published the collected stories in a book in January 2012.

M&C! will release the collected manga on October 26.

Boys Next Door centers on Azusa, a girl who harbors feelings for her school's student council president and her upperclassman, Ōsuke. She fins out one day that Ōsuke is moving into her neighbor's house, which turns out to be the house of Ōsuke's uncle, Kōsei. Eventually, Kōsei hires Anzu to help out in the housework, whereupon she finds herself surrounded by two older men.

Harada launched the manga in Kodansha's Bessatsu Friend magazine in 2015, and ended it in August of the same year. Kodansha released the second and final compiled book volume for the manga in September 2015.

M&C! will release both volumes of the manga on November 2.

M&C! describes Our Magical Love:

In pursuit of her goal of being a beautician, Aiko left her family to live alone and study at a vocational school in Tokyo. Together with new friends, she studies hard every day to chase her dream. One day, she returns to her hometown to see Shintarō, her boyfriend, but a complication arises.

Shibano launched the manga in Shogakukan's Deluxe Betsucomi magazine in 2014. Shogakukan published the manga's third compiled book volume in August 2015.

M&C! will publish the manga's first volume on November 2.