One of fall's most anticipated manga adaptations is Chica Umino's Manga Taisho, Kodansha Manga Award and Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize-winning March Comes In Like A Lion. NHK General TV, the main channel of Japan's national public broadcasting station, is viewed by 40 million households, it got some tributes from not entirely unexpected, but very strange never the less sources.

Kentaro Miura's Berserk and Chica Umino's March Comes In Like A Lion both run in Young Animal and the two authors have engaged in a sort of mutual admiration conversation over the years that has included swapping special covers on volumes of the manga.

Their cover swap

And, since the series is being animated at Shaft, Gekidan Inu Curry, the duo who designed Madoka Magica's witches, drew Momo on a studio whiteboard.



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.