Shinobu Seguchi’s Shūjin Riku, Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix

Manga creator Shinobu Seguchi revealed in an interview posted on ANN on Friday that his usual manga Shūjin Riku, and his Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- (Hikuidori Ushūboro Tobigumi) manga — the variation of the main quantity from Shōgo Imamura‘s Ushūboro Tobigumi historical new sequence — are getting digital English releases in North The United States. Akita Shoten added on Saturday each manga will debut in North The United States this summer season.

Seguchi’s 38-quantity Shūjin Riku manga serialized in Akita Shoten‘s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine from 2011 to 2018.

The manga’s record is location in the approach-future Tokyo, 10 years after it used to be destroyed by a issue hit from a meteorite. A 13-year-worn boy named Riku Kurita lives a elaborate life in the slums of Tokyo. Riku will get caught up in a crime and is sentenced to 30 years in a some distance off jail. Punished for a crime he did no longer commit, Riku fights to flee from the some distance off jail.

Seguchi’s Oedo Fire Slayer -The Legend of Phoenix- manga launched in Weekly Shōnen Champion on April 24. Besides Seguchi’s manga adaptation of Imamura’s Hikuidori (Fire Eater) new, the main new can even safe a television anime adaptation by Synergy SP slated for unencumber in iciness 2026.

Amuse Ingenious Studio describes the record:

Within the Edo technology
A team of heroes saved infinite lives.
As a sequence of mysterious arsons engulf Edo in chaos
The relentless firefighters mosey to place the metropolis.

Imamura launched the Ushūboro Tobigumi new sequence with the Hikuidori record in 2017. Shodensha has revealed 12 volumes of the unconventional, and a quantity of spinoff quick record sequence, which launched in 2022. The radical won in the sixth Yoshikawa Eiji Bunko Award in 2021.

Seguchi will seemingly be a part of Dandelion Animation Studio president and The First Slam Dunk producer Kazuhiro Nishikawa on the “Amuse Creative Studio Presents: How the Pros Make Anime & Manga” panel at this year’s Anime Expo in Los Angeles on July 6 at 12:forty five p.m. PDT in room 411.

Source: Shōgo Imamura and Shinobu Seguchi ANN interview (Lynzee Loveridge)