December’s issue of Monthly Shonen Sunday from Shogakukan revealed that Minoru Toyoda will be going on hiatus for two months. Toyoda has made the decision in order to prepare for the final arc of Draw This, Then Die! (Kore Kaite Shine), as well as upcoming volume releases for the manga.
Toyoda (Love Roma) first launched the manga in Monthly Shonen Sunday magazine in November 2021. The series is also available on Sunday Webry.
An anime adaptation premiered on July 3, with a second season already confirmed.
The cast of the anime includes:
- Akira Sekine as Ai Yasumi
- Saori Hayami as Rei Teshima
- Saya Hitomi as Kokoro Fujimori
- Kanon Fujimura as Sachi Akafuku
- Inori Minase as Hikaru Sekiryū
- Noriko Hidaka as Pokota
- Atsumi Tanezaki as Nana Teramura
- Yukana as Hana Kongōji
Hiroaki Akagi directed the anime series at Shin-Ei Animation. Hiroko Fukuda oversaw the series scripts and wrote the scripts along with Aki Itami and Kanichi Katō. Takekazu Segawa served as the character designer. Tatsuya Kitani performed the opening theme song “Isho,” while Regal Lily performed the ending theme song “Conifer.”
Here’s an overview of Kore Kaite Shine, via MyAnimeList:
Ai Yasumi, a first-year high school student living on Izu-Oshima, loves manga more than anything. When she learns that her long-admired, yet long-inactive, favorite manga artist Hoshi no Rei will be exhibiting at COMITIA, she sets off on a journey to Tokyo.
What she doesn’t expect, however, is that a fateful encounter at the event will change her life forever.
“How does one become a manga artist?” Ai steps into the world of manga creation—a path she thought she understood, yet knows so little about. This is the story of a girl taking her first steps down the road to becoming a mangaka.
