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Nobuyuki Fukumoto Launches Golf Manga (Update)

This year's 19th issue of Kodansha's Morning magazine revealed on Thursday that Nobuyuki Fukumoto (Kaiji) is launching a new golf manga titled Nikaidо̄ Jigoku Golf (Nikaido Hell Golf) in summer. The story follows a golfer named Nikaido.

Fukumoto launched the Yami Ma no Mamiya (Yami-Mahjong Fighter Mamiya, pictured right) manga's serialization in the Kindai Mahjong magazine in July 2019, after first publishing a one-shot of the manga in the magazine in May 2019. The first part will end in Takeshobo's Kindai Mahjong magazine on May 1. Takeshobo published the manga's sixth compiled book volume on December 28.

The manga is the sequel of Fukumoto's Akagi manga, which ended in the magazine in February 2018. The manga's story is set 20 years after [Warning: This contain a spoiler for the earlier stories. Highlight text to read the spoiler.] [Akagi's passing]. The manga centers on Mamiya, a new player who settles disputes through mahjong.

Fukumoto launched the Akagi manga series in Kindai Mahjong in 1992, and it ran for 27 years. The manga inspired a 2005 television anime by the Studio Madhouse, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime starting in 2013.

The manga also inspired a 10-episode live-action television series in summer 2015, and Crunchyroll streamed that series as well. A second season, titled Akagi "Ryūzaki, Yagi-hen" "Ichikawa-hen" (Akagi "Ryūzaki, Yagi Arc" "Ichikawa Arc"), premiered in October 2017. A three-episode live-action mini-series debuted in May 2018.

Fukumoto's gambling manga Kaiji also inspired two television anime and two live-action films.

Update: The manga will launch in the 38th issue of Morning on August 17. Source: Morning issue 36/37

Source: Morning issue 19