Kodoani.com – LEED Publishing’s February issue of Comic Ran Twins announced on Friday that the spinoff manga Shikakenin Meshibanashi ~Fujieda Baian Saiban-ki~ by Yūji Takemura will end the magazine’s March issue on February 13. The series is a spinoff of Takemura’s manga adaptation of Shōtarō Ikenami’s Shikakenin Fujieda Baian novel. The late Shōtarō Ikenami is still credited for the original work.
The gourmet spinoff manga debuted on Comic Ran Twins in March 2022, and it explores the cuisine of the Edo period.
Takemura launched the manga in Comic Ran Twins in May 2016 and ended it in November 2021.
The novel series is set during the historical Edo period, focusing on the famous Fujieda Baian, a medic and doctor by day, but a ruthless killer for hire by night. His trading tools are the same in both jobs: acupuncture needles leave no trace.
Takemura’s Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Tsuki-gatari manga with authors Nobuhiko Horie and Tetsuo Hara inspired an anime adaptation in 2013.
From 1972 until his death in 1990, Ikenami published seven novels in his Shikakenin Fujieda Baian series, which remained unfinished due to Ikenami’s death. The series has also been adapted for films. An earlier manga adaptation by Golgo 13 author Takao Saito was serialized from 2001 to 2015 with 35 volumes.
Ikenami’s novel Onihei was also the inspiration for the 2017 anime of the same name.
