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New York, NY—At their Anime NYC 2023 panel, manga subscription service Azuki announced 10 new series coming to the service, including two new exclusives translated and published by Azuki. The Azuki exclusives — slow-burn teen romance Our Aimless Nights by Mori Kou and irreverent teacher-student comedy You're So Sloppy, Hotta-sensei by Mao Nakada — will launch in early 2024 only on Azuki. Azuki also added eight series and one-shots from Media Do International Inc., MediBang!, and Star Fruit Books — A Devotion That Changes Worlds, My Sadistic Boyfriend, Who Wants to Play, Garuda, Immoral, A Long Stay, Split Story, and I'll Quit Travelling… All eight are available to read right now. Synopses of the 10 series and one-shots are included below:

Our Aimless Nights by Koumori: Cheerful, energetic high school girl Chika and shy, reserved boy Kazuya couldn't be more different. But they have a secret: every Wednesday after 9Pm they meet outside the convenience store where Kazuya works.

In the repeat class of Shenghua High School, there is a new transfer student, Lin Xiangzhi (Zhao Jinmai) who is quiet and smart but always lonely and does not make friends with other classmates. But in this way, she attracted the attention of Xu Youshu (Lin Yi), a scum in the class. In the process of Xu Youshu constantly wanting to be friends with Lin Xiangzhi, he and the eccentric Song Xiaonan (Shen Yue) and the high-cold scholar Jiang Wu (Wang Jiahui) discover Lin Xiangzhi’s secret, it turns out that she suffers from a special disease and her memory of her friend is only seven days. To help this lonely girl, the four of them form a “Doomsday Survival” squad to constantly create surprises and memories for her. As everyone knows, there is a sadder secret behind Lin Xiangzhi’s illness…

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