AnimEigo released the television anime series, the first movie, and the later video anime series, while ADV Films handled the second movie, Kimagure Orange Road: Summer’s Beginning.
Matsumoto’s Kimagure Orange Road manga series ran in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1984 to 1987.
Matsumoto said that during the several months of treatment he will not be answering messages on his PC or smartphone.
Matsumoto previously gave up drawing manga in 1999 due to the same illness, but did not receive the right diagnosis until 2004.