Manga Menace focuses on an amnesiac teenage delinquent who meets aliens
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© Haruto Umezawa, Shueisha
The May issue of Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine revealed on Thursday that Haruto Umezawa will launch a new manga titled Menace in the magazine's next issue on May 2.
The series revolves around Teruya, a teenage delinquent who spends his days fighting as a member of a gang, but decides to leave his gang for his beloved Aimi. As part of his withdrawal from the gang, he had to undergo a “retreat ritual” where the gang beat him severely. After being beaten, he woke up and discovered that he had lost his memory and even knew his name. Then he meets a strange alien creature.
Umezawa published the one-shot manga Hareluya in Shueisha's Shonen Jump Summer Special magazine in 1991, and adapted it into a serial in 1992 in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, where it ran for 10 chapters. Umezawa began writing the manga HARELUYA II BØY (pictured right) in late 1992. The manga reimagined the story and ran in Weekly Shonen Jump until 1999 and ran for 33 volumes. The manga inspired the 1997 anime television adaptation, which was licensed by Sentai Filmworks in 2021 and began streaming on HIDIVE.
Source: Young Ace May issue
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