It won the fourth Manga Taishou Award in 2011 and the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category.
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Currently 11 volumes of the series have been released. It is about shogi or Japanese chess, published in Hakusensha’s “Young Animal” magazine. “March Comes in like a Lion” is a big hit ongoing manga series by Chika Umino, best known for another ongoing series “Honey and Clover”. I’m really looking forward to seeing what her beautiful pictures will be like when animated, and also actually hearing all the great lines that I have read as letters in manga. Q2: What do you expect from the anime adaptation of “March Comes in like a Lion”? I’m really anxious about its sequel at the moment and want to read it very soon. We are so glad to be able to work on a collaboration again with our favorite manga, “March Comes in like a Lion”. It is a phenomenal group, majorly popular among the young people but also with a wide variety of fanbase, regardless of gender and age.Ĭomments by BUMP OF CHICKEN: Q1: How do you like working on the collaboration with Chika Umino again? It’s been 16 years since they debuted on the major label, and their fans still continue to increase. Their 8th album, “Butterflies”, released in February, 2016, made a huge hit record, selling more than their previous album, “RAY”.
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On the new year’s eve of 2015, they performed at the most famous TV music show, called “NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen” for the first time. “Hello, world!” was used for the opening song of the anime series “Blood Blockade Battlefront”, and “Colony” was used for the theme song of the live action movie, “Parasyte: Part 2”. On April 22nd in the same year released a double A-side single, “Hello, world!/Colony”. In February, 2015, they released their live documentary video, “BUMP OF CHICKEN WILLPOLIS 2014” on DVD and Blu-ray. Their first album on major label, “Jupiter”, was released in 2002 and was their first number one hit on the Oricon Weekly Charts, selling over 900,000 copies in total. In the year of 2000, they released their first debut single, “Diamond” from a major label. In February, 1996, they had their first performance with these members. The members are Motoo Fujiwara, Hiroaki Masukawa, Yoshifumi Naoi and Hideo Masu. In addition, they have announced that their previous collaboration song, “Fighter” will be used for the ending! We have received comments from the members too! BUMP OF CHICKEN ProfileīUMP OF CHICKEN is a Japanese alternative rock group of four childhood friends. It was distributed as an unprecedented collaboration.Īs the TV anime adaptation of the series was announced, they were eager for BUMP OF CHICKEN, who had shown their best love for the original manga, to do the opening song, and their second collaboration was finally realized. The author, Chika Umino, listened to it and drew a spin-off chapter of the series. They have respected each other as great creators for long, and BUMP OF CHICKEN made a new song called “Fighter” as their reaction to the manga series. “March Comes in like a Lion” and BUMP OF CHICKEN collaborated in November 2014, for the limited edition of the 10th volume of the manga series and their music video, “Fighter”. It is announced that BUMP OF CHICKEN will release a new song for the opening of the anime series.Īdditionally, their previous collaboration song, “Fighter” will be used for the ending! “March Comes in like a Lion” is a popular manga series about shogi, also known as Japanese chess, and its TV anime adaptation will premiere in fall 2016.