Ryu to Rei Manga to Debut in Morning Magazine
This year's 36th and 37th combined issues of Kodansha's Morning magazine revealed last Thursday that Masato Hisa and Naoki Azuma will launch a new manga titled Ryū to Rei (Dragon & Ape or literally Dragon and Spirit) in the magazine's next issue on August 22. Hisa is credited as the original story creator, Azuma is drawing the manga, and Kazunobu Gotō is in charge of editorial supervision.
Image via Morning Magazine Website
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The manga's story is set in the dark, buried history of the earth where humans fight over bones. A former Japanese military spy addicted to opium meets a “man” who could be an enemy or an ally of humanity and may have something to do with a certain fossil that the superpowers are rushing to find.
© Masato Hisa, KRSG, Earth Star Entertainment
Hisa's Nobunagun manga ran from 2011 to 2015. The manga inspired a television anime in 2014.
Hisa and KRSG launched the Weakest Contestant in. All Space and Time (Zenjikū Senbatsu Saijaku Saiteihen Ketteisen) manga (pictured right) on Earth Star Entertainment's Comic Earth Star website in March 2019 and ended in July 2020. Earth Star Entertainment released the manga's second and final volume in August 2020. Seven Seas licensed the manga and released the first volume in English in May and the second volume in August 2022.
Hisa also drew the manga adaptation of the Batman Ninja anime. The two-volume manga debuted in June 2018 and ended in September 2019.
Futaroh Yamada and Azuma launched the manga Keishichō Zōshi: Fūtarō Meiji Gekijō in Morning magazine in September 2021. Kodansha published the manga's 13th and final volume on September 22.
Source: Morning summary number 36/37 and website
