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Manga to continue without changes per manga creator’s final wishes
The December issue of LEED Publishing Co., Ltd.‘s Comic Ran magazine revealed on Wednesday that Sentarō Kubota and Takao Saito‘s manga adaptation of Shōtarō Ikenami‘s Onihei Crime Reports in Edo (Onihei Hankachō) novel series will continue on “without changes.” Saito passed away on September 24. The magazine stated the manga’s continuation is per the final wishes of Saito.
Saito’s Golgo 13 manga is similarly continuing on without him, with the Saito Production group of artists continuing the work with the assistance of the editorial department of Shogakukan‘s Big Comic magazine and an additional scriptwriting staff.
Kubota and Saito launched the Onihei Crime Reports in Edo manga in Comic Ran in 1993. Bungeishunju published the manga’s 113th compiled book volume on August 19, and will publish the 114th volume on December 21 with a special memorial to Saito. JManga once partially published the manga in North America.
The historical novel series depicts Heizō Hasegawa, who metes justice on wrongdoers and supervises the crackdown on arsonists and robbers in Japan’s Edo period (1603-1868).
Ikenami serialized the story in Bungeishunju‘s Ōru Yomimono novel magazine from 1967 to 1989, and Bungeishunju published 19 volumes for the main story. Later paperback reprints divide the story into 24 volumes. The serialized novels inspired the first live-action television adaptation in 1969, as well as three subsequent series and a 1995 live-action film. The novels also inspired a television anime adaptation that premiered in January 2017, and streamed on Amazon Prime Video‘s now-defunct Anime Strike channel.
Source: Comic Ran December issue
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