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Appare! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku Manga Ends, Continues in Series' 5th Title on November 13

This year's 44th issue of Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine published on October 2 the final chapter of Kenji Hamaoka's Appare! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku (Bravo! Super Radical Gag Family) manga, and announced the new series Mōretsu! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku (Extreme! Super Radical Gag Family), which will launch in the magazine on November 13. The new manga is the fifth title in the Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku series.

Hamaoka launched the original Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku (Super Radical Gag Family) manga in Weekly Shōnen Champion in 1993. The 31-volume manga spawned two sequels: the 28-volume Ganso! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku from 2002 to 2010, and the Maido! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku, which began in 2010, and ended in 2018. Akita Shoten published the 24th and final compiled book volume of Maido! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku in June 2018.

The manga's renewal, with the title Appare! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku, launched in Weekly Shōnen Champion in March 2018. The title was chosen from suggestions submitted by readers. The manga went on a one-issue break in 2023 — the series' first break in 30 years — when Hamaoka went on a family trip. Akita Shoten will publish the manga's 24th and final volume on December 8.

The slapstick gag comedy follows a second-grade boy named Kotetsu Ōsawagi and his misadventures with his family and friends in Urayasu City, near Tokyo.

The original Super Radical Gag Family manga inspired a 33-episode television anime 25 years ago in 1998. Akitarō Daichi (2001 Fruits Basket, Kodocha, Now and Then, Here and There) directed the anime at Studio DEEN. Maido! Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku also inspired a television anime adaptation in 2014, and Daichi again directed the series.

Source: Weekly Shōnen Champion issue 44