This Saturday, the November issue of Kodansha’s Bessatsu Friends magazine will announce that the manga of Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge♥ (The Wallflower) will end in three more chapters. If the manga will continue publishing without a break, it will end on the February issue of the magazine on January 13.
Tomoko Hayakawa (Ousama no Tamago, Kirei na Otokonoko) published the manga on 2000. The 35th compiled book volume of the manga was published by Kodansha last September. After taking the publication rights from Del Rey Manga in 2010, Kodansha Comics USA will publish the 34th volume of the manga this February. Chuang Yi licensed the manga on Singapore as My Fair Lady.
The Wallflower has an anime adaptation that was aired from Fall 2006 – Winter 2007. It was produced by Nippon Animation (Hunter x Hunter 1999, Romeo no Aoi Sora) and was directed by Shinichi Watanabe (Tenchi Muyo! GXP, Gravitation: Lyrics of Love). It also had a live-action adaptation on Winter 2010.
The manga has also inspired Julie Haus, an American fashion designer’s, fashion line that appeared in the 2008 New York Fashion Week.
Announcement from the November issue of Kodansha’s Bessatsu Friend magazine:
Synopsis of The Wallflower from MAL:
It’s a gorgeous, spacious mansion, and four handsome, fifteen-year-old friends are allowed to live in it for free! There’s only one condition—that within three years the guys must transform the owner’s wallflower niece into a lady befitting the palace in which they all live! How hard can it be?
Enter Sunako Nakahara, the agoraphobic, horror-movie-loving, pockmark-faced, frizzy-haired, fashion-illiterate recluse who tends to break into explosive nosebleeds whenever she sees anyone attractive. This project is going to take more than our four heroes ever expected: it needs a miracle!
