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Boichi, In-Wan Youn's SuperString: Isekai Kenbunroku Manga Ends
posted on by Anita Tai
Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday will publish the final chapter of Boichi and In-Wan Youn's SuperString: Isekai Kenbunroku (Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to the Multiverse) manga on March 6. The LINE manga app is also publishing the final chapter.
Boichi and Youn (Defense Devil, Island, Shin Angyo Onshi) launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Sunday in April 2023. The series had gone on hiatus in November. It was scheduled to return to the magazine in the second 2024 issue. Shogakukan published the manga's third compiled book volume on January 18.
The series centers on one young man's story of protecting his family and fighting alone. In the story, heroes from various dimensions come to Earth and fight a war. The magazine describes it as a hyper-dimensional action series about Marco Polo.
Webtoon is publishing the series in English.
SuperString is tied into Korean company YLAB's Super String IP, which features characters from different YLAB works in one universe. The IP focuses on manhwa but also includes films, musicals, live-action works, and games.
Boichi (Sun-Ken Rock, Origin) and Riichirou Inagaki (author of Eyeshield 21) launched the Dr. Stone manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in March 2017, and ended the series in March 2022. The manga got a new chapter in Weekly Shonen Jump around the same time the Dr. Stone: Ryusui special aired in July 2022. A new three-chapter spinoff manga, set after the Dr. Stone main manga's finale, launched in Weekly Shonen Jump on November 6.
Boichi had launched an essay manga titled Zessan Sekaimeshi: Tabereba Konoyo no Subete ga Wakaru (Amazing World Food: Understanding Everything About This World Through Eating) in April 2022, but he ended the manga in its third chapter. Boichi stated that he had to stop the manga because "something sad happened."
Youn's Island and Defense Devil works have received English releases. Shin Angyo Onshi inspired an anime film in 2004 that released in English under the title Blade of the Phantom Master.
Sources: LINE Manga App, Weekly Shonen Sunday
