Kodoani.com – The official Twitter account of Shogakukan’s Weekly Corocoro Comic website announced on Saturday that the manga Mini4King by Hiroyuki Takei (Shaman King) and artist Yūki Imada (Tengoku no Ragnarok) is entering its final stages.
Takei and Imada launched the Laser Mini 4WD car racing kids manga in the monthly Coro Coro Comics in July 2021, and Tamiya also launched a mini car line in the same month. The manga ended serialization in the magazine in November 2022 and began serialization on the Weekly Corocoro Comic website on December 17.
Shogakukan published the manga’s first compiled book volume in Japan in December 2021 and the third volume in November 2022.
Takei launched Nekogahara: Stray Cat Samurai (Nekogahara) as his first manga with Kodansha in the first issue of Shonen Magazine Edge in September 2015 and he ended the series in April 2018. .
Shaman King launched in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1998. The series ended abruptly in 2004, although a re-release of the manga revealed a “real ending” in 2009. Viz Media previously published 32 volumes of the original Shaman King manga between 2003 and 2011, but the studio no longer holds the license for the manga. Shueisha originally held the manga rights in Japan.
The main manga previously inspired a television anime series from 2001 to 2002. A new anime series adapting all 35 episodes of the new complete edition of the manga premiered in April 2021. Netflix streamed the anime worldwide starting August 2021. The anime series has 52 episodes. The anime adaptation of Shaman King Flowers will premiere in January 2024.