Manga creator Fujihiko Hosono launched a new manga titled Koi to Gebaruto (Love and Political Violence) on Kodansha’s Comic Days manga website and app on September 19.
The manga’s story begins in April 1968, in the midst of a Japanese university student protest movement. Hiroshi Tōgi leaves his hometown of Sendai to go to a university in Tokyo with a purpose. What awaits him is university life full of chaos and division: between left and right, between student government and university institutions, etc. Led by Kuroki, Hiroshi’s senior joins a student protest movement, and stumbles upon his destiny.
Hosono recently launched the 1978-nen no Manga Mushi manga in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Zōkan magazine on April 12. The series is set in 1978, when manga and other subcultures thrive. in Japan, and an important year in Hosono’s life (Hosono debuted as a manga artist shortly after).
Hosono ended his Buddy Dog manga in October 2020. Hosono launched the manga in Big Comic in 2017. Shogakukan published the manga’s 11th and final volume in December 2020.
Hosono serialized the original Sasuga no Sarutobi manga from 1980 to 1984 in Shogakukan’s Zōkan Shonen Sunday magazine. Shogakukan published the seventh volume in May 1984. The series inspired a 69-episode TV anime start in 1982. Hosono released the Sasuga No Sarutobi G manga with Monthly Hero in June 2017. The manga series ended in September 2019.
