Tokyopop had announced that Miki Yamamoto’s A Smart and Courageous Child manga will be released in print and digital format on September 24, 2024. The manga was initially announced for release on June 18, 2024.
The single-volume, full-color edition of the manga will be published in print and digitally under Tokyopop’s “Comics That Matter” initiative that utilizes the graphic novel medium to raise awareness about important causes and social issues.
A Smart and Courageous Child won the 24th Manga Division Excellence Award at the 2020 Japan Media Arts Festival. It was serialized on the Torch website from August 16, 2019 to May 20, 2020.
Miki Yamamoto is currently an assistant professor at Tsukuba University, Faculty of Art and Design. She first debuted as a manga artist in 2011 with Bakudan to Ribon, which was published by Sansai Books. In 2012, she released Sunny Sunny Ann! with Kodansha and was awarded the 17th Osamu Tezuka Cultural prize in the “New Face Award” category. The title was released in France in 2018 and was also an official selection for the 2019 Angoulême International Comics Festival.
Tokyopop describes the synopsis of A Smart and Courageous Child as:
Every young couple has high hopes for their unborn child, and Sara and Kouta Takano are no different. But only days away from giving birth, Sara learns about the tragedy of Malala Yousafzai’s attempted assassination at the hands of the Taliban, and her pure and innocent belief in the future is shaken. If such a smart and courageous child can be hurt so badly by the world, how can she keep her own baby safe? With Sara now in a state of shock, will the young couple be able to bridge the widening gap between them, or will it tear their family apart?
The reality of this world, as seen through the eyes of an author that has spent years illustrating the women and their lives.
Source: press release
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