Kodoani.com – Shueisha’s July issue of Saikyō Jump announced on Friday that Shinichirō Ōe will launch a new manga titled Mitsuru Quest! in the August issue of the magazine on July 4.
Ōe first published the story as a one-shot manga (pictured below) in Saikyō Jump magazine in February.
The manga’s story follows a boy who enters the game world, and he aims to conquer that world with a middle-aged man in his 30s who also enjoys playing games.
Ōe started the Komatta Jii-san manga with a chapter that has garnered around 130,000 likes on Twitter on November 22, 2018. (November 22 is nicknamed “Double Beautiful Day” or “Ii Fufū no Hi” is a Japanese pun on 11/22.) Ōe submitted the manga to the LINE app’s “LINE Manga Indies” program in January 2019. The manga participated in the Frontier Launch Program of the LINE app. app in September 2019. The program introduces upcoming manga artists and readers can vote for which manga will be serialized.
Kadokawa released the manga’s first volume in November 2019.
The manga inspired an anime series, which premiered in Japan in April 2020.
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