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Tsubasa Yamaguchi, the creator of the award-winning Blue Period manga, announced announced on their Twitter account yesterday that the manga will be taking at least a one-month break from serialization in Monthly Afternoon because they contracted COVID-19. Yamaguchi explained that she hasn't been feeling well since "the other day" and got a PCR test, which confirmed that she had COVID-19.
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The March issue of Monthly Afternoon released today features 51 episodes of Blue Period.
However, in fact, I was not feeling well from the other day, and as a result of the test, it was judged to be positive for coronavirus. We are currently trying to recover our physical strength through home medical treatment, so next month's issue will be suspended. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/gSKTusf0H9— Tsubasa Yamaguchi (@ 28_3) January 24, 2022
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In the following Tweet, Yamaguchi She's currently recovering at home from the virus with medical treatments. said that her condition is steadily improving, though all she is going is "sleeping a lot and healing."
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Blue Period launched in June 2017 in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon Seinen manga magazine, winning the 13th Manga Taisho award and the 44th Kodansha Manga Award for Best General Manga. A TV adaptation aired in the fall 2021 season with Netflix releasing episodes in Japan ahead of the TV broadcast and then internationally a few weeks after.
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Source: Tsubasa Yamaguchi on Twitter
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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, And posts photos of his travels on Instagram.
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