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Kodansha Comics Adds A Silent Voice, Maria the Virgin Witch Manga

North American manga publisher Maria the Virgin Witch (Junketsu no Maria) manga.

Kodansha describes A Silent Voice as follows:

A Silent Voice by Yoshitoki Ōima opens with a young deaf girl transferring into a new school. She quickly becomes the target of a vicious bully, but as the years , the boy learns what loneliness feels like, and seeks her out to apologize. Thus begins a tumultuous and emotional story that anyone who grew up different – or had trouble understanding someone different – will identify with.

Kodansha will publish the first volume in spring 2015, and will release new volumes every two months.

Ōima began the manga as a one-shot in Kodansha's said that she will end the manga in about two more volumes.

Kodansha describes Maria the Virgin Witch as follows:

From the creator of Moyasimon, Masayuki Ishikawa, Maria the Virgin Witch stars a witch who uses her magic to protect her French village from the ravages of the Hundred Years War, but when her flagrant use of the dark arts attracts the attention of the archangel Michael, she'll be forced to swear an oath of chastity or lose her powers forever!

Kodansha will release the first volume in the three-volume series in early 2015.

Ishikawa Good! Afternoon magazine in 2008, and the manga ended its run in the magazine in 2013.

Ishikawa also drew the series.

The third volume of the manga had announced last October that an anime adaptation of the manga had been green-lit.