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Gifū Dōdō!! Manga Ends on October 25
posted on by Karen Ressler
This year's November issue of Tokuma Shoten's Comic Zenon magazine announced on Tuesday that Tetsuo Hara and Nobuhiko Horie's Gifū Dōdō!! manga will end in the next issue on October 25.
Hara (Fist of the North Star) first created the 1990-1993 manga Hana no Keiji -Kumo no Kanata ni- to adapt Keiichirō Ryū's novel about the samurai, Maeda Keiji. Hara and magazine editor Horie then brought in manga artist Yūji Takemura to launch the spin-off Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Tsuki-gatari- manga in Shinchosha's Weekly Comic Bunch magazine in 2008.
Weekly Comic Bunch folded in 2010 after Shinchosha had published nine compiled volumes. As a result, Horie launched Comic Zenon in 2010, and the three creators launched the Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Sake-gatari- manga in Comic Zenon's inaugural issue. The series ended after 10 compiled volumes.
Finally, Hara and Horie launched the final series, Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Hana-gatari (pictured right), with artist Masato Deguchi in March 2014. Tokuma Shoten published the 13th volume on July 20.
The manga inspired the Gifū Dōdō!! Kanetsugu to Keiji television anime series, which debuted in Japan in 2013. Crunchyroll streamed the 26-episode series as it aired.
Source: Comic Zenon November issue
