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Shonen Jump Alpha to Run Hunter x Hunter's Kurapika Short

posted on 2012-12-10 23:44 EST by Egan Loo

North American publisher Viz Media announced on Monday that its digital manga anthology Shonen Jump Alpha will run the two-chapter Kurapika Tsuioku-hen" (Kurapika Flashback arc) of Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter × Hunter manga. The manga debuted in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine last Monday, and it will also be published in a "volume 0" book being given to people who see the Hunter × Hunter: Phantom Rouge film next month.

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