This year's 8th issue of Young Animal magazine is announcing on Friday that Chica Umino's shogi romance manga March comes in like a lion is inspiring a spinoff manga. Hideaki Nishikawa (Z Man, Gisho Getter Robo Darkness) will launch Sangatsu no Lion Shōwa Ibun: Shakunetsu no Toki (March comes in like a lion - The Untold Showa-Era Tale: Fiery, Passionate Times) in the next issue on April 24.
The story is set in the year Showa 44 (1969), and it centers around Takanori Jingūji, the 27-year-old man who eventually become the head of the Japan Shogi Association in the main March comes in like a lion series. There was an opponent that young Jingūji had to defeat.