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Uniqlo's Shonen Sunday, Shonen Mag Shirt Images Posted

The apparel maker UNIQLO is displaying the first ten T-shirts based on popular manga from the magazine pages of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday and Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine. The first lineup includes Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2, Ikki Kajiwara's Tiger Mask, Kajiwara and Noboru Kawasaki's Kyojin no Hoshi, George Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo, Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitarō, Masami Yuuki's Mobile Police Patlabor, Gōshō Aoyama's Detective Conan, Takahashi's Urusei Yatsura, Eiji Nonaka's Charge!! Cromartie High School, and Mitsuru Adachi's Touch. The two next shirts (out of 53 planned) will be Kazuo Umezu's Makoto-chan and Kajiwara and Tetsuya Chiba's Ashita no Joe. (The shirts will cost 1,500 yen or about US$15.00 each.) The two magazines are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and next year.