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I’ve talked about the Minamike’s seiyuu trio - Sato Rina, Inoue Marina and Chihara Minori’s manga effort here, and what do you know, they really are going to publish their work. From March this year, the Minamike radio show “Minamike no Minakike” will be collected and released in CD form, and according to the program’s site, the first pressing for the CD will come with the “Sensei and Ninomiya-kun” manga that the seiyuu drew. Not much else is known right know and checking the release schedule, it appears that there will be more than one CD for the program’s recording, so it’s unknown whether they are going to split the manga over the volumes or just release it on the first installment only.

Either way, I’m really interested in checking the manga out drawn by the three, plus I really enjoyed the radio show as well, so this should be a no-brainer purchase for me.

Believe it or not, I’m actually not the type that follows seiyuu radio shows. However this season had me following the Minami-ke radio “Minami-ke no Minakike”. I’m not sure why I’m attracted to this particular radio show - it’s probably the random-ness of it, as each episode has no particular theme to it and it goes in all sorts of direction, and the adlib nature of the radio show resembles the anime itself. Of course it has the added attraction of having two seiyuu that I’m interested in - Inoue Marina and Chihara Minori, and I’m starting to warm up to Sato Rina as well.

One example of the random-ness of the show was when they talked about the show-within-show, the love drama “Sensei and Ninomiya-kun”, that the Minami sisters watches. Since in the anime there really is no story to this show, one of the seiyuu, Inoue Marina if I recall correctly, suggested that they could draw a shoujo manga of the show, and they can each take turn drawing a chapter each week. To keep it short, the idea got the go ahead and they are now serialising the manga, so to speak.

Originally they were doing it for fun and they weren’t going to show it to anyone, but since Inoue Marina is such an excellent drawer, Chihara Minori’s childhood dream was to be a mangaka and apparently Sato Rina is said to be a good drawer too according to her wiki entry, it turned into something they didn’t quite expected, so they’re now giving the listeners a glimps of it by posting a couple of sample pages from their manga.

First you have Sato Rina’s:

And here you have Inoue Marina’s:

The three of them joked about publishing it in one of the episodes, maybe at Comiket or package it as a special in the DVD or something, and who knows, maybe just like this little idea it may come true.