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Santa Inoue Draws 3 New Chapters for Tokyo Tribe Manga
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
This year's fifth issue of Akita Shoten's Bessatsu Young Champion magazine revealed on April 5 that Santa Inoue is drawing three new chapters of his Tokyo Tribe over the magazine's next three issues, with one new chapter for every issue. The first new chapter will debut on April 30.
Inoue published two new chapters for the manga titled "Waru vs. Oni Kyōdai" (Waru vs. Ogre Brothers) in Bessatsu Young Champion magazine last July and August.
Inoue began publishing his 12-volume Tokyo Tribe 2 sequel manga in 1998, and ended it in 2006. Inoue also launched another sequel manga in 2008 titled Tokyo Tribe 3, and ended it on February 2012.
Tokyopop acquired the Tokyo Tribe 2 manga and published seven English volumes with the title Tokyo Tribes, before the company shuttered its North American publishing operations in 2011.
The Studio Madhouse adapted Tokyo Tribe into a 13-episode television anime series in 2006. Director Shion Sono (Suicide Club, Shinjuku Swan) adapted the manga into a live-action film. North American film distributor XLrator Media released the film in North America via select theaters, video on demand, and iTunes last October.
Inoue also confirmed in May that producer Patrick S. Cunningham (Starlet, The Room) and screenwriter Darryl Wharton-Rigby (Homicide: Life on the Street, Obon) licensed the rights to adapt Tokyo Tribes as a television series.
