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Digimon Dreamers Manga Artist Tenya Yabuno Launches Samurai Comedy Series
posted on by Anita Tai
The news website for Shogakukan's Weekly CoroCoro Comic announced on Tuesday that Digimon Dreamers and Inazuma Eleven manga artist Tenya Yabuno is launching the new series Benkei no Nakidokoro (Benkei's Weak Spot) on the platform on Wednesday. The first chapter of gag shorts is free to read now.
The "perverse master-servant comedy" is set at the end of the 12th century during the age of samurai, and follows Benkei, who is obsessed with the manliest of hobbies: weapons.
Yabuno launched the series in Shueisha's Saikyō Jump magazine in October 2021. Akiyoshi Hongo is credited with the original story. Bandai started publishing the comic with an English translation by MediBang in 2023. Shueisha shipped the first volume in December 2022.
Source: CoroCoro News
