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Shinichirō Ōe's Mitsuru Quest! Manga Ends
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The manga's story is about a boy who enters a game world, and he aims to clear it with a 30-something middle-aged man who also loves playing games.
Ōe first published the story as a one-shot manga in Saikyō Jump in February 2023. The manga started serialization in the manga in July that same year. Shueisha published the manga's first compiled book volume in February 2024, and the third volume on June 4.
Ōe began the Komatta Jii-san (Troublesome Old Man) manga with a chapter that garnered about 130,000 likes on X (formerly Twitter) on November 22, 2018. (November 22 is nicknamed "Good Couple Day" or Ii Fufū no Hi" as a Japanese wordplay on 11/22.) Ōe submitted the manga to the LINE app's "LINE Manga Indies" program in January 2019. The manga joined the app's Frontier Debut Program in September 2019. The program showcases up and coming manga artists, and readers can vote on which manga will receive a serialization. Kadokawa released the manga's first volume in November 2019. The manga inspired an anime adaptation, which premiered in Japan in April 2020.
Source: Saikyō Jump July issue
