Skip and Loafer Drops Soft New Years’ Illustration

Skip and Loafer is wishing fans a happy new year.

Character designer for Skip and Loafer Manami Umeshita has illustrated a special new artwork. The artwork features Mitsumi Iwakura and Sōsuke Shima standing beside each other, examining their fortunes. While Mitsumi is engrossed in reading what next year will hold in store for her, Shima has eyes for no one else except her.

Created by Misaki Takamatsu, Skip and Loafer is a slice-of-life manga following Mitsuki Iwakura who moves to a high school in Tokyo with big plans. However, things go awry on her first day of school when she gets lost and bumps into popular highschooler Sōsuke Shima. The manga has recorded over 1 million copies in circulation as of January 2023 and won Best General Manga at the 47th Kodansha Manga Awards.

Skip and Loafer received an anime adaptation with P.A. Works animating and producing. Kotomi Deai wrote and directed the series with Manami Umeshita as the character designer and chief animation director. Takatsugu Wakabayashi composed the music. The series aired in April 2023 and concluded in June 2023 with 12 episodes.

Crunchyroll streams the anime. Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the manga in English.

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