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Bakuman's Otter #11 Also Runs in Shonen Jump Next Mag
posted on by Egan Loo
Shonen Jump Next, a spinoff publication of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, will ship on Monday with a one-shot side story from Rakko 11-gō (Otter #11) — the manga from the fictional world of the Bakuman. manga series. Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Bakuman. story revolves around two aspiring manga creators in high school. In the world of Bakuman., a professional artist named Kazuya Hiramaru created Rakko 11-gō, a hit gag comedy manga amd anime about otter people. A 15-page Rakko 11-gō manga already ran in this week's issue of Weekly Shonen Jump.
Viz Media published the first volume of the Bakuman. manga in North America this month. An television anime adaptation of the manga has been green-lit for this fall.
[Via newAkiba.com]