A cartoon by the active university student living in Aomori Prefecture, "I want to be familiar with my childhood friend," was released nationwide on August 22.

A love comedy about interacting with a childhood friend who reunited in Hirosaki. The original author, Shin-Karigiri (pen name), is an active university student who posted illustrations on his Twitter account "BakaYARO@araidokagiri."

This work was reconstructed as a story manga from Shinchau's series tweet, which he started posting on July 31st last year with the setting "Reunited with his grown-up childhood friend at college." There were over 300,000 retweets in total, and there was a response such as being taken up by overseas net users.

The series began with the January issue of the monthly comic flapper (KADOKAWA). Mr. Isao Murasawa of the editorial department said, "I saw the illustration of the childhood friend series and felt the possibility and asked for a serialization. Shinchai is dedicated to making the reader enjoy and read. Although it is a student, it is a work The fact that it's close to the character and settings in it is a big advantage for writing the work."

"Manga readers can enjoy the manga about local areas because local people can sympathize with them and people outside the prefecture can be stimulated by intellectual curiosity."

Since the serialization began, topics have been gathered, and the cumulative number of views on pixiv, Nico Nico Stills, and Twitter has exceeded 25 million. In Nico Nico still image, I got the first place in the user ranking in the first half of 2018. Shincha's follower count has risen to around 200,000 and is gaining support.

One week has passed since its release, and a reprint is decided. "I never thought that I would serialize it into a commercial magazine while I was at school and make it into a book. I would like to continue my university life and creative activities while continuing my activities after graduation," says Shincha.

The price is 648 yen.