Author
Tokyo Revengers Ken Wakui will launch a new manga titled Negai no Astro in issue 20 of Weekly Shonen Jump, released on April 15, 2024.
Negai no Astro is a supernatural crime manga and this will be Wakui's first work to be serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.
The manga's plot is set in the war for succession between powers. Yotsurugi-gumi yakuza clan. The film follows two main characters: a young man whose goal is to become the strongest yakuza and his friend who he wants to see as the next group leader.
Ken Wakui is a Japanese manga artist famous for his works Shinjuku Swan and Tokyo Revengers.
Wakui debuted with Shinjuku Swan in 2005, the film achieved significant commercial success and received many adaptations; the series ended in 2013. His three shorter series, Abaddon, Budgerigar and Desert Eaglese was released from 2010 to 2016.
The most critically acclaimed work, Tokyo Revengers, first published in 2017 and ending in 2022; with over 70 million copies in circulation, Tokyo Revengers has become one of the best-selling manga series of all time and has been adapted into a long-running anime series as well as several live-action films.
Source: Natalie Comics