Heisei Haizan-hei Sumire-chan Manga Goes on Hiatus for Author's Maternity Leave
The three-month hiatus pauses a relatively new series that was already nominated for Kodansha's Best General Manga award this year, making its return in October a key checkpoint for its momentum.
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Satomi U's manga Heisei Haizan-hei Sumire-chan is going on hiatus from mid-July to mid-October while the author takes maternity leave. The series, which follows a failed idol plotting revenge against the entertainment industry, launched in Weekly Young Magazine in January 2024 and has ten compiled volumes.
Satomi U's Heisei Haizan-hei Sumire-chan is taking a break. The manga will go on hiatus from mid-July to mid-October while the author is on maternity leave, as announced in the 34th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine on Tuesday.
The series follows 31-year-old failed idol Sumire, who is convinced by her high school student cousin to release a gravure book as revenge against the entertainment industry. Satomi U launched the manga in January 2024, and Kodansha shipped the 10th compiled volume on May 20. The series was nominated for Kodansha's 50th annual Manga Awards in the Best General Manga category in May.
Satomi U previously ended the Beauty and the Feast manga in 2021, which ran in Square Enix's Young Gangan from March 2016.
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