posted on by Anita Tai
Series launched in Chara magazine in 2000
Kazuya Minekura announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday she is working gradually to rating the eighth quantity of her Wild Adapter manga the final quantity. She added she is a “Stone Age person” who easy even now draws storyboards on paper.
— 峰倉かずや (@kaz_minekura) August 8, 2025
The artist resumed publishing the collection on Ichijinsha‘s Ichijin Plus web manga build on the same day, after taking a nine-year hiatus beginning in 2016.
In the manga’s story, a young gang leader named Makoto Kubota takes in Minoru Tokitoh, a boy with a mysterious past. Minoru has been uncovered to the drug “W.A.” which has remodeled his stunning arm into a monstrous limb. The two investigate the origins of the drug that is devastating the metropolis’s underground.

© Kazuya Minekura, Ichijinsha
The manga launched in Tokuma Shoten‘s bimonthly Chara magazine in 2000, but then it switched publishers to Ichijinsha in 2011, running in Ichijinsha‘s Zero-Sum Ward magazine till the magazine ceased publication in Might well maybe well 2015. Wild Adapter then moved to Zero-Sum Online. Ichijinsha has since republished the old compiled volumes of Wild Adapter, and printed the seventh quantity in July 2015.
Ichijinsha slowed the serialization of Minekura’s Wild Adapter and Saiyuki Reload Blast manga in 2013 due to her health.
The gathering inspired an original video anime in 2014, and a 2d OVA in 2015. The characters of Wild Adapter also appear in Minekura’s Shiritsu Araiso Koutougakkou Seitokai Shikkoubu (Araiso Private High College Student Council Executive Committee) manga and its 2002 video anime adaptation.
Tokyopop licensed the Wild Adapter manga in 2006 for liberate in North The united states. The corporate printed six volumes sooner than the company first closed its North American publishing division.
Minekura also only in the near past resumed her Saiyuki Reload Blast manga after five years on hiatus in September 2024.
Source: Kazuya Minekura‘s X/Twitter myth
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