The Umimachi Diary (Seaside Town Diary) manga began serialization in Monthly Flowers in 2006, and Shogakukan shipped the eighth compiled volume on April 10.
The November issue of Shogakukan’s Monthly Flowers magazine revealed on September 28 that Akimi Yoshida’s Umimachi Diary manga series will have an “important announcement” in the magazine’s December issue on October 28.
The film won five awards, including Best Picture of the Year, at the 37th Annual Japan Academy Prizes in March 2016.
The manga inspired a stage play, which ran from March 31 through April 2 in Tokyo.