Koimoku

Koimoku
Cover of Koimoku Volume 1 as released by Kill Time Communication featuring Hinata Sawanoguchi.
こいもく
Genre	Comedy, Romance, Drama, Slice-of-life
Manga
Written by	Dall-Young Lim
Illustrated by	Hae-Won Lee
Published by	Kill Time Communication
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Comic Valkyrie
Original run	January 27, 2011 – September 27, 2012
Volumes	5 (List of volumes)

Koimoku (Japanese: こいもく^?, Spelled as Cimoc in the English subtitle) is a manga series written by Dall-Young Lim and illustrated by Hae-Won Lee. The series revolves around Kouta Inamine, a young manga artist whose streak of failures takes a drastic turn when he is hired by a famous B-rated editor.

Koimoku began serialization in the March 2011 issue of Kill Time Communication's seinen manga magazine Comic Valkyrie, published on January 27, 2011, and ended in the November 2012 issue. The first volume was released on July 27, 2011, and the fifth and final volume released on November 29, 2012.

Kouta Inamine is a young man with dreams of becoming a professional manga artist, but his constant mistakes has caused him to be fired from almost every manga magazine in Tokyo. After being fired from yet another manga magazine, he believes his life to be over. However, his life takes a drastic turn when he finds out that his next door neighbor, Hinata Sawanoguchi, is revealed to be a famous editor for a B-rated manga magazine, and Hinata recruits him for her manga magazine. The story mainly focuses on the process of making and serializing manga, from concept to completion and the real-life stresses that come with it, with a comedic touch.

Written by Korean manhwa author Dall-Young Lim and illustrated by Hae-Won Lee, Koimoku began serialization in Kill Time Communication's seinen manga magazine Comic Valkyrie in its March 2011 issue (published on January 27, 2011), and ended in the November 2012 issue (published on September 27, 2012) with twenty chapters published. The first volume was released on July 27, 2011 under KTC's Valkyrie Comics imprint, and the fifth and final volume was released on November 29, 2012.