Coca-Cola Japan Sponsors Teens-Only Air Gear Manga

posted on 2010-03-03 04:43 EST

Side story by Tenjho Tenge creator is exclusive to registered club members in their teens

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Not-So-Daily Link of the Day: Coca-Cola Happy Teen's Club, the teen website sponsored by Coca-Cola Japan, is hosting an exclusive side-story manga from the Air Gear racing tournament series. As drawn by the manga's original creator who goes by the name "Oh! great" (Ōgure-Ito), the free story is only available to teenaged club members — members have to register in Japanese and declare that they are between 13 and 19 years old.

The Air Gear side story is actually the second exclusive manga to be posted on the website. The collaborative project between Coca Cola Japan and Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine began on February 1 with a side story from Kaori Saki's Smash! badminton manga. A new exclusive manga will appear on the Coca-Cola Happy Teen's Club site at the beginning of every month.

Del Rey published the 15th volume of the Air Gear manga in North America in January, while DC Comics' CMX Manga imprint published the 18th volume of Oh! great's Tenjho Tenge manga in September. ADV Films once released television anime version in North America, and Funimation has released the anime series on DVD and on the web.

In related news, Shibatora and Kunimitsu no Matsuri manga artist Masashi Asaki is collaborating with Ryū Kisaragi on a new manga called Black Out. The mystery manga, which launched in this year's 14th issue of Weekly Shonen Magazine on Wednesday, centers around cases to be solved in high school baseball.

Source: Comic Natalie