Tokuma Shoten revealed on Friday that Kei Ohkubo’s Arte manga is inspiring a television anime adaptation.
North Stars Pictures and Tokuma Shoten have digitally published 17 chapters of the manga in English in its Silent Manga Audition web manga magazine.
Ohkubo launched the manga in Monthly Comic Zenon in 2013, and Tokuma Shoten will publish the manga’s 11th compiled book volume on Saturday.
Mikako Komatsu stars as the titular protagonist and aspiring painter Arte, and Katsuyuki Konishi plays Leo, the painter who takes in Arte as his apprentice.