The Comic Artist and His Assistants
The Comic Artist and His Assistants is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki. It was serialized in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Young Gangan from February 1, 2008, to September 21, 2012, and the chapters collected into 10 tankōbon volumes. A sequel titled The Comic Artist and His Assistants 2 was serialized from August 2, 2013, to June 6, 2014. An anime television series adaptation animated by Zexcs aired between April 7, 2014, and June 23, 2014.
Plot
Manga author Yūki Aito is an incredibly perverted man whose main loves and desires is to love everyone close to him and draw ladies' underwear. His assistant, Ashisu, is constantly put into awkward situations and is forced to cope with Aito's shenanigans.
Characters
Main characters
;Yūki Aito
;Sahoto Ashisu
;Mihari Otosuna
;Rinna Fuwa
;Sena Kuroi
;Branya
''Monthly Shōnen Gongon'' manga artist team
;Kazuma Tsuranuki
;Meisei Tomito
;Ichika Konno
;Tamako Motoki
''Monthly Shōnen Gongon'' editing department
;Matome Minano
;Kouken Tomito
;Aoi Tanemochi
Others
;Sahono Ashisu
;Manabi Namida
;Sasae Enoshita
;Mamori Sumino
;Mirei Sumino
;Rinna's father
;Jun Kiyosaki
;Panchū
Media
Manga
The Comic Artist and His Assistants was serialized in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Young Gangan from February 1, 2008, to September 21, 2012. It was compiled in 10 volumes released between October 27, 2008, and December 25, 2012. A sequel titled The Comic Artist and His Assistants 2 was serialized from August 2013 to September 2014. It was compiled in 1 volume on June 25, 2014.
Drama CD
A drama CD of The Comic Artist and His Assistants has been released on January 26, 2011.
Anime
An anime television series adaptation animated by Zexcs aired from April 7 to June 23, 2014. Crunchyroll hosted a simultaneously released English subtitled version. Shortly after, Sentai Filmworks licensed the series for digital and physical release in North America. The series was released in Japan on 6 Blu-ray and DVD discs at a rate of one per month from June to November 2014.The series upcomingly was released in Mexico after Yowu Entertainment fired the show and being released by Televisa airing on three channels bitMe, the gaming channel, Golden Premier, The premium movie channel and Telehit, the music channel, and web airings on Blim The Mexican VOD subscription free-on-demand service as well as Canal 11 in Costa Rica, ETC in Chile, America TV in Peru, La Tele in Paraguay and Canal Uno in Colombia. Mini OVAs were included with each volume of the Blu-ray/DVD packages. Sentai released the series on subtitled-only Blu-ray and DVD on September 15, 2015. The opening song titled "Pure Impurities" and ending song titled "Spica" are both sung by idol group StylipS. The Show was dubbed in French and aired on two channels Gong and Nolife, and the show until Nolife ceased operations Game One continued to air the show as well.