Yū Aoki and Yuto Yotsuba Launch Boat Racing Manga Boat Girl
Two creators with running commercial manga are pairing on a Piccoma launch, a placement outside the Shueisha and Kodansha web services their current series call home.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Magilumiere Co. Ltd. creator Yū Aoki said on Friday that she and Ya Boy Kongming! creator Yuto Yotsuba have launched a new boat racing manga titled Boat Girl on the Piccoma platform. Yotsuba is credited with the original concept. Aoki wrote Magilumiere with artist Sekka Iwata; Yotsuba writes Ya Boy Kongming! with artist Ryō Ogawa, and co-launched Tokyo Kinoko in August 2025.
Boat Girl is a boat racing manga, a subject neither Aoki nor Yotsuba has worked in with their current serializations. Yotsuba takes the original concept credit, with Aoki announcing the launch on her own X account on Friday. The two carry different publishing records: Aoki and Iwata ran Magilumiere Co. Ltd. on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ from October 2021 to its 160th chapter in July 2025, while Yotsuba writes Ya Boy Kongming! with Ryō Ogawa, which began on Kodansha's Comic Days in December 2019 and later ran in Weekly Young Magazine.
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