Rumiko Takahashi to Publish New One-Shot

Humberto Saabedra

Big Comic SpiritsRumiko Takahashi, author of Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikkoku and currently serializing RIN-NE has been confirmed to author a new one-shot story in the Big Comic Spirits anthology, 17 years after the last chapter of Maison Ikkoku was published in the magazine.  The one-shot will be titled “Hoshi wa Sen no Kao” (Star of A Thousand Faces) about an actress that goes missing before the filming of the last episode of a hugely popular TV drama, believing that she may have committed a murder.

[via Comic Natalie]

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