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10 Manga Legends & Artists Celebrate 40th Back to the Future Day With Art

Great Scott! The Back to the Future film franchise welcomes its 40th anniversary with a special set of illustrations from "legendary manga creators and popular illustrators" for Back to the Future Day 2025. Tokyo Comic Con announced the illustrations on Tuesday, October 21 (the date the second film's future story begins in 2015), and noted the illustrations will be on display during the December 5-7 convention.

The illustrations feature Back to the Future characters Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd), along with other characters, through their journey through time, as drawn by:

• Kōji Inada (Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai)
• Masakazu Katsura (Video Girl Ai, I''s, Tiger & Bunny character designs)
• Kazushi Hagiwara (Bastard!!)
• Akira Miyashita (Sakigake!! Otoko Juku)
• Masanori Morita (Rokudenashi Blues)
• Raita Kazama (Xenoblade character designer)
• Naoki Saitō (Pokémon Trading Card Game illustrator)
• Ryōsuke Takeuchi (Tonde Saitama ~Biwako Yori Ai o Komete~ film's official illustrator)
• Ryō Fujiwara (A3! character designer)
• lack (Fate/Grand Order character designer)

Not incidentally, Tokyo Comic Con is hosting the first film's cast members Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Tom Wilson, and Claudia Wells this year.

NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan also announced a set of Back to the Future 40th Anniversary pure-gold koban coins. The coins, forged in the style of traditional Japanese koban coins from about 10 grams (about 0.35 ounces) of gold each, feature the iconic DMC DeLorean time machine as it appeared in the three films along with each film's title logo. The set comes in an exclusive display case.

Pre-orders for the coin set will continue until December 29 on the U-Treasure website. The coin set goes for 528,000 yen (about US$3,470) and will begin shipping around May 28, 2026.

Back to the Future is no stranger to the manga world. In February 2018 manga creator Yūsuke Murata (One-Punch Man, Eyeshield 21) announced he would draw a Back to the Future manga series. The series was set to launch on the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Web website. However, due to rights issues for several elements of the story, the planned series was canceled by September 2018. Murata posted several images of the planned Back to the Future manga to his Twitter account.

Sources: Tokyo Comic Con & Osaka Comic Con's X/Twitter account, Back to the Future 40th Anniversary's website, NBC Universal's Japanese X/Twitter account, U-Treasue