The Kagurabachi manga by Takeru Hokazono officially surpassed 600,000 copies in circulation with the first three volumes. Volume 4 is set to release on October 4, 2024. The manga releases new chapters every week on the official Shonen Jump and Manga Plus apps.
Kagurabachi won the 2024 Next Manga Award in the print category earlier this week, beating out other popular titles such as Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun if Episode of Mafia by hiroja and Osamu Nishi, Tsumiki Ogami & the Strange Everyday Life. by Miyu Morishitam, and DOGSRED by Satoru Noda. Fans can check out the manga trailer for Volume 2 below:
Kagurabachi is a battle shonen manga written and illustrated by Hokazono that began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump on September 19, 2023. It received an unprecedented amount of hype upon its debut and now has fans inquiring about copies of the series at bookstores in Japan to the point the official account had to put out a statement asking fans to be patient with the reprints of the first volume, which eventually came on February 27, 2024.
Since its debut, Kagurabachi has received two cover pages and 10 color pages, most recently for chapter 44, and a recommendation from My Hero Academia creator Kohei Horikoshi himself. Fans can check out the recent color page below:
Takeru Hokazono’s Background
Hokazono’s success has quietly been building up in recent years. In 2020, the author won the 100th Tezuka Manga Award for their one-shot Enten, which was later published in Jump GIGA back in the spring of 2021 alongside their other one-shots Farewell! Cherry Boy! and then CHAIN during the summer.
Hokazono later published a new one-shot titled Madogiwa de Amu in Weekly Shonen Jump #19 in April 2022 and yet another, more popular one titled Roku no Meiyaku in Weekly Shonen Jump #35-36. Now, almost two full years later, Hokazono’s hard work has paid off with Kagurabachi receiving a big debut!
Kagurabachi synopsis via MANGA Plus:
Young Chihiro spends his days training under his famous swordsmith father. One day he hopes to become a great sword-maker himself. The goofy father and the serious son–they thought these days would last forever. But suddenly, tragedy strikes. A dark day soaked in blood. Chihiro and his blade now live only for revenge. Epic sword battle action!
The Kagurabachi manga has over 600,000 copies in circulation as of August 2024. Volume 1 in English will be released on November 5, 2024.
Sources: Official X (formerly Twitter)
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