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Shinobu Seguchi's Shūjin Riku, Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- Manga Get Digital English Releases This Summer
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
Manga creator Shinobu Seguchi revealed in an interview posted on ANN on Friday that his original manga Shūjin Riku, and his Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- (Hikuidori Ushūboro Tobigumi) manga — the adaptation of the first volume from Shōgo Imamura's Ushūboro Tobigumi historical novel series — are getting digital English releases in North America. Akita Shoten added on Saturday both manga will debut in North America this summer.
The manga's story is set in the near-future Tokyo, 10 years after it was destroyed by a direct hit from a meteorite. A 13-year-old boy named Riku Kurita lives a tough life in the slums of Tokyo. Riku gets caught up in a crime and is sentenced to 30 years in a remote prison. Punished for a crime he did not commit, Riku fights to escape from the remote prison.
Amuse Creative Studio describes the story:
In the Edo era
A team of heroes saved countless lives.
As a series of mysterious arsons engulf Edo in chaos
The relentless firefighters race to save the city.
Imamura launched the Ushūboro Tobigumi novel series with the Hikuidori story in 2017. Shodensha has published 12 volumes of the novel, and a volume of spinoff short story collection, which released in 2022. The novel won in the sixth Yoshikawa Eiji Bunko Award in 2021.
Seguchi will join Dandelion Animation Studio president and The First Slam Dunk producer Kazuhiro Nishikawa at the "Amuse Creative Studio Presents: How the Pros Make Anime & Manga" panel at this year's Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 6 at 12:45 p.m. PDT in room 411.
Source: Shōgo Imamura and Shinobu Seguchi ANN interview (Lynzee Loveridge)
