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Manga Plus Adds Kazuya Konomoto, Ryō Yamasaki's Kami Kill Manga
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Shueisha's MANGA Plus service announced on Wednesday that it is publishing Kazuya Konomoto and Ryō Yamasaki's Kami Kill manga in English. The first eight chapters are available to read now.
The company describes the story:
In a run-down shopping street, brothers Fuji and Kiri run a small barbershop as they wait for their father's return. In their effort to make ends meet, every day brings something new to their door. From the creator behind hits such as “Seto Utsumi,” “Odd Taxi,” and “Housenka” teams up with a superstar artist to bring you a quirky, heartfelt, and mysterious tale of brothers, barbers, and the oddities that find them.
Konomoto and Yamasaki launched the series in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine on August 21. Shueisha will ship the first compiled book volume on October 17.
Konomoto has collaborated with director Baku Kinoshita on the ODDTAXI original anime and the original anime film The Last Blossom, with Konomoto writing and Kinoshita directing both anime. ODDTAXI premiered in Japan in April 2021 and aired for 13 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime in the West. The Odd Taxi: In the Woods film is a "reconstruction" of the television anime episodes, but it also depicts what happens after the television anime's finale. The film opened in April 2022. Crunchyroll is streaming the film.
Konomoto also collaborated with manga artist Takeichi Abaraya on the RoOT/Route of Odd Taxi (stylized with a backwards R in "RoOT") manga spinoff, which launched in February 2023 on Big Comic Superior's web manga site Darupana, and ended on April 25. The manga's sixth and final volume shipped on May 30. The spinoff manga itself inspired its own live-action series that premiered in April 2024. Crunchyroll streamed the series.
The Last Blossom (Housenka) anime film screened in the Feature Film Competition at this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival. A preview of the film was part of the Work in Progress lineup in last year's Annecy Film Festival. The film opened in Japan on October 10.
Source: MANGA Plus' X/Twitter account
