Kodansha’s Days Neo website, which connects aspiring manga creators with professional editors, is listing a recruitment notice for an assistant for manga creator Kaya Tsukiyama to work on a new manga serialization in Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine.
Tsukiyama previously collaborated with Hiroaki Igano on the The Knight in the Area soccer manga, which launched in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2006, and ended in 2017.
Tsukiyama and Igano also collaborated on the Kami-sama no Koibito manga, which launched in March 2019, and ended in February 2020.
The spinoff manga Area no Kishi Bangai-hen: Enokō Early Days about the high school days of Coach Iwaki debuted in 2007, and Kodansha’s Manga Box app released the series.