The employees of the Gakuen Idolm@ster (Academy Idolm@ster) gaming app unveiled in a livestream on Wednesday Smile down the runway manga creator Kotoba Inoya will write and compose the sport’s manga adaptation, which can debut in Akita Schoten‘S Weekly Shonen Champion journal someday this 12 months. Though Inoya is just credited with writing and composing, he drew a particular illustration for the manga that includes the manga’s protagonist, Kotone Fujita (see under).

The sport will launch in Japan on Might 16. Within the sport, the participant is a producer who hones and produces idol skills from the Hatsuboshi Gakuen idol coaching college. The sport has 9 idols that gamers can produce, together with Kotone Fujita (voiced in-game by Hikaru Iida), an idol who’s assured in her look and works arduous to earn her cash, regardless of low grades in singing and dancing and a low analysis of herself.

Inoya launched the Smile down the runway (Startbaan de Waratte) manga as its debut serialization in Kodansha‘S Weekly Shōnen journal in Might 2017. The manga concluded with its twenty second quantity in August 2021. The manga impressed a 12-episode tv anime adaptation that premiered in January 2020. Funimation streamed the sequence because it aired.

Sources: The IDOLM@STER franchise‘S YouTube channel (announcement at timestamp 54:00 in video), Kotoba Inoya‘S Tweet account, Weekly Shonen Champion subject 23