March Comes in Like a Lion

The March Comes in Like a Lion anime, adapted from Chica Umino’s manga by SHAFT and broadcast on NHK General TV, invited manga artists, including Kentaro Miura and Tetsuya Chiba, to draw the end cards of some episodes. Tetsuo Hara drew two, credited “イラスト：原哲夫”. The first, for episode 20, broadcast on 4 March 2017, shows a moustached man with tousled hair, in a patterned kimono, reaching out to the viewer in Kenshiro’s pose, a shogi player’s fan in his other hand. It is in all likelihood Raido Fujimoto. The second, for episode 36, on 20 January 2018, depicts Akari Kawamoto in a black dress and pearls, a glass of whisky in her hand.