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Idolmaster anime, Cinderella Girls, Jupiter to be serialized in various manga/comics magazines

Originally Posted by Cinderella Girls

First up: stories revolving around characters from Mobage’s Idolmaster Cinderella Girls social game will be serialised in four Square Enix comics publications: Gangan Online, Young Gangan, Big Gangan, and Gangan Joker. The first chapter will be published in Gangan Online on August 2.

*Note: although this was not actually announced at the Idolmaster 7th Anniversary concert, according to an image (above) we found, the Cinderella Girls character stories will also be collected and published into three separate comic anthologies – each focusing on idols belonging to a particular genre (Cute, Cool, and Passion) from the game.

Originally Posted by Jupiter

Next, Sakagami announced that 765Pro’s rivals, 961Pro’s three-piece boy-band group Jupiter, would also receive its own manga series. This will be serialised in Hakusensha’s Hana to Yume, The Hana to Yume, and Hana to Yume Online publications, beginning Autumn 2012.

Originally Posted by Idolmaster Anime

Finally, Sakagami revealed that the Idolmaster anime series would also be “comicalized” and published in Ichijinsha’s Comic REX.

Manga artist “Mana” (if you know who that is, please let us know via the comments) will illustrate, while the story scenarios will be written by Tatsuya Takahashi who was also in charge of the script for the anime series.

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