This year's seventh issue of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine revealed on Monday Satomi U will launch a new manga titled Heisei Haizan-hei ☆ Sumire-chan (Heisei Defeatist☆Sumire-chan, pictured right in image below) in the eighth issue on January 22.
ギャー！！来週月曜日の1/22から新連載「平成敗残兵⭐︎すみれちゃん」始まります！！！
— 里見U🍑平成敗残兵⭐︎すみれちゃん (@USAT0MI) January 15, 2024
推されなかったアイドルの子すみれちゃんを、30代のかわいいカスみたいなすみれちゃんを…推して…愛おしく思ってほしいです！！！よろしくお願いします！！！ pic.twitter.com/9pGn2WOV9R
The story follows the 31-year-old failed idol Sumire, who is convinced by her high school student cousin to release a gravure book to get her revenge against the entertainment industry.
Satomi U ended the Beauty and the Feast (Yakumo-san wa Eduke ga Shitai) manga in 2021. The artist launched the series in Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine in March 2016. The 11th and final volume shipped in March 2021. Square Enix Manga & Books shipped the final volume in English on November 21.