House of Five Leaves Author To Debut New Manga Series In May

Natsume Ono, author of House of Five Leaves, will be debuting a new manga in May. While the name of the series hasn’t been revealed yet, Manga News report that it will debut in Shogakukan’s Monthly Ikki magazine.

The series will kick off with a whopping 56-page pilot chapter. Anime News Network have a translation of the announcement that reads: “The story is set in the Edo period and centers around two men at Kawasaki Daishi, a heavily visited temple south of modern-day Tokyo. The first man is cheerful, but the second man glares at him with a cold stare. Both are up to something that will be revealed as the story begins.”