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Shin Takahashi Puts Ekiden Danshi Project Manga on Hiatus Until Spring

This year's eighth issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine announced on Monday that Shin Takahashi's Ekiden Danshi Project (Men's Long-Distance Relay Race Project) manga will go on hiatus, but it is scheduled to return this spring.

The manga previously went on hiatus in July 2023, and returned that fall.

Takahashi launched the manga in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in May 2022. Shogakukan published the manga's third compiled book volume on December 27. Takahashi had stated in 2018 that he would launch a manga about the university ekiden race in 2019.

The manga's story centers on Hayata, a track-and-field athlete who takes his chance to get onto a private university's long-distance relay team and get a full college scholarship. During the member recruitment, Hayata and other athletes aiming to get onto the team were challenged to a half-marathon race, with a team formed on the spot. But the team members were anything but united.

Viz Media released Takahashi's Saikano manga in North America. The series inspired a television anime, original video anime, and live-action film.

Source: Weekly Big Comic Spirits issue 8