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Val x Love’s Ryōsuke Asakura Launches New Manga Series – News
Evangeline Puts on Shoes about popular actress, aspiring shoemaker in high school debuted on Wednesday
Ryōsuke Asakura launched a new manga series titled Evangeline Puts on Shoes (Evangeline wa Kutsu o Haku) on Shueisha‘s Shonen Jump+ platform on Wednesday.
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The story follows popular high school student and actress Evangeline. While everyone is dazzled by her looks and charm, only the plain Kotarō; an aspiring shoemaker, can see the pain in her footsteps.
Asakura launched the Anastacia no Ikita 9-kakan (The Last 9 Days of Anastasia) manga in Square Enix‘s Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine in February 2024 and ended it on September 12, 2025. Square Enix shipped the third and final volume on November 12, 2025.
Asakura launched the Shikizaki Shimai wa Abakaretai (I Want to Be Exposed by the Shikizaki Sisters) manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Young Jump magazine in December 2021 and ended it in April 2023. Shueisha published the manga’s fifth and final volume in June 2023.
Asakura’s launched the Val x Love (Ikusa x Koi) manga in Monthly Shonen Gangan in December 2015 and ended it in March 2023. Square Enix published the manga’s 16th and final volume in May 2023, and Yen Press published that final volume in English in March 2024. The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in October 2019. Sentai Filmworks streamed the anime on HIDIVE as it aired in Japan, and released the anime on Blu-ray Disc in November 2020.
Source: Shonen Jump+
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