Sora no Manimani Manga Gets Anime

Sora no Manimani, some run-of-the-mill slice-of-life romantic school comedy manga by Mami Kashiwabara, is about to receive an official announcement tomorrow, which will reportedly confirm a TV anime adaptation starting this summer. Kodansha's Afternoon magazine is the one breaking the news, and fittingly so - since it's there that the manga has been serialized since 2005; and still is.



The Sora no Manimani anime is being created by Studio Comet for a July 2009 debut, under the direction of Shinji Takamatsu (School Rumble, Gintama - speaking of which...). Hajime Watanabe (School Rumble) will supervise the animation production and create the character designs. The anime's official website is also expected to go live tomorrow.

So far, the manga was compiled into 5 volumes, and the story goes something like this - via MangaUpdates.

"Saku Ooyagi returns to his old town after seven years and becomes reacquainted with a childhood friend, the ever-boisterous Mihoshi Akeno; but the reunion is far from merry since his last piece of memory between them is of her falling off a tree and him diving to save her. Regardless, Mihoshi focuses her all into improving their tattered relationship and forces Saku to join her astronomy club."