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Morikawa to Draw Hajime no Ippo Spinoff One-Shot Manga
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The previously announced one-shot manga that George Morikawa will be drawing for the April 4 launch of Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Rival magazine will be a spinoff story from his Hajime no Ippo boxing manga. The news came in an advertisement that appeared in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. According to the advertisement, the story will tell a "surprising episode in the life of a certain character." Morikawa has drawn 82 volumes so far in Hajime no Ippo, which he started in 1989. The manga spawned a popular 75-episode television anime series, as well as a television special and a spinoff video.
The Monthly Shōnen Rival magazine's debut issue will fill 1,012 pages with "21 manga titles of all genres." Those titles will include the card-game-based Monster Hunter Orage series from Fairy Tail and Rave Master's Hiro Mashima, the school-based Holy Talker fantasy from GetBackers' Rando Ayamine, the near-future Blazer Drive fighting manga from O-Parts Hunter's Seishi Kishimoto, the Zettai Hakase Gōrisshu "super-scientific" fighting manga from Akkerra Kanjinchō's Yuki Kobayashi, and a special-edition one-shot manga of Masayuki Ishikawa's Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture medical comedy.
Source: Muhyojo
Image © George Morikawa/Kodansha
