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© Yudetamago, Shueisha
Manga creator duo Yudetamago announced on Twitter on Sunday that the Kinnikuman manga will be on hiatus this week due to the knee surgery of one of the group’s members, Takashi Shimada. A manga mini-series adaptation of the 22nd story in the online text series Deep of Muscle!! Kinnikuman Real Novels will replace the main manga during the hiatus. The duo promised to update the main manga’s return date next week.
The manga creator duo named Yudetamago continued their original Kinnikuman wrestling comedy manga as a free webcomic in 2011. The creators returned to their first 1979 Kinnikuman storyline and continuing where they last left off the story in 1987. The original manga has inspired various television anime and film series. Yudetamago previously published the Kinnikuman one-shot manga in Shueisha’s Grand Jump magazine in 2015, then published the one-shot in Weekly Shonen Jump for the first time in 11 years in June 2019. The second compilation volume 83 of the manga was published in Japan on September 23.
Toy figures of Kinnikuman were imported to the United States under the “MUSCLE” label in the 1980s. Viz Media later released the sequel Kinnikuman Nisei-Second Generations manga by Takashi Shimada and Yoshinori Nakai in North America titled Ultimate Muscle: The Kinnikuman Legacy, and 4Kids Entertainment aired the anime television adaptation.
Source: Yudetamago’s Twitter account
