Mayu Shinjo Becomes Official Illustrator for Gundam Website, New Manga to Start in Betsuma

Popular shojo mangaka Mayu Shinjo will be starting a new series titled Midnight☆Children in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret (Betsuma) September issue (8/11).

Also, Mayu Shinjo announced on her blog that she is now in charge of creating illustrations for the official Gundam SEED/Gundam SEED Destiny mobile website, SEED Club Mobile. Mayu Shinjo used to publish Gundam doujinshi, and now she will be creating official illustrations for the website of the popular mecha series.

In May, Mayu Shinjo announced her decision to leave Shogakukan and work as a "free" manga artist:

If I am to continue with all kinds of serializations, I won't have the time and energy to do what I want to do. I just want to let everyone know that after my current manga ends, I will temporarily stop being a mangaka [...] Of course, there are still many things I want to draw, so who knows when I will come back and challenge myself to draw again.

It's been three months, Mayu Shinjo is back!