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M&C! Licenses City Hunter -Rebirth-, Fist of the North Star Manga

Indonesian publisher M&C! announced on Monday that it has licensed the City Hunter -Rebirth-, Fist of the North Star, Trace, and Chiruran – Shinsengumi Requiem manga.

Sokura Nishiki's City Hunter -Rebirth- (Kyō kara City Hunter) manga is about a 40-year-old unmarried woman who has been obsessed with City Hunter's Ryō Saeba since high school. One day she is hit by a train and she is reborn in the world of City Hunter.

Nishiki launched the manga in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Zenon magazine in July 2017. Tokuma Shoten published the manga's fourth compiled book volume on June 20, and it will ship the fifth volume on November 20.

The original City Hunter detective comedy action manga celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2015. The 1985 manga inspired four television anime series, one anime film, and several video and television specials. Jackie Chan starred in a 1992 live-action film that very loosely adapts the original manga. Actor Lee Min-Ho starred in a 2011 live-action Korean television series of City Hunter. "Ryō no Propose" (Ryō's Proposal), the 2015 original anime DVD for the manga, reunited four of the main cast members from the earlier City Hunter television anime.

Most recently, City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes, a new anime film, opened in Japan on February 8. The film opened in Indonesia on October 2.

Buronson and Keiichi Hara's Fist of the North Star manga is set in a post-apocalyptic world. The story centers on a man named Kenshiro, a master and successor to a deadly martial art, as he wanders the nuclear wasteland protecting the weak and innocent from violent thugs. In his travels, he must contend with other master martial artists and figures from his past, including his "brother" Raoh, who has crowned himself the king of the new world.

The manga ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 1983 to 1988. The manga has a 1984 and 1987 television anime adaptations, as well as other anime film and OVA adaptations.

Buronson, Nobuhiko Horie, and Hara are also serializing the Fist of the Blue Sky prequel manga. Elex Media publishes the manga in Indonesia. The manga inspired a 26-episode television anime adaptation in 2006, as well as a new television anime in 2018.

Kei Koga's Trace (Trace: Kasōken Hōi Kenkyūin no Tsuisō) manga is a crime suspense story set in a forensic laboratory where researchers work to uncover clues from small details. The manga's story begins when Nonna Sawaguchi, a rookie forensic researcher, meets Reiji Mano, the man who solved the case behind the double murder of Nonna's parents.

Koga, who has previously worked in a forensic laboratory, launched the manga in Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Zenon magazine in January 2016. Tokuma Shoten published the manga's seventh compiled book volume on June 20, and will publish the eighth volume on November 20.

Koga revealed in June that the manga is approaching its climax.

A live-action television series adaptation of the manga premiered on January 7.

Comic Zenon describes Shinya Umemura and Eiji Hashimoto's Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem (Chiruran: Shinsengumi Chinkon-ka) manga:

On the eve of a new era, Kyoto was in chaos. Different factions were moving at cross-purposes, and with the clash of different ideals, many were resorting to violence to enforce their views. To bring back order to the streets of Kyoto, Shinsengumi – the supposed guardians of peace – were formed. A chosen group of hot blooded youth, on a mission to save Kyoto, and to prove their worth… This is a tale of proud young Samurai mercenaries, who lived and died by the sword, in a turbulent period of political upheaval. To them, a man is defined by the way he dies.

Umemura provides the story, and Hashimoto illustrates the manga. The duo launched the series in the inaugural issue of Tokuma Shoten's Monthly Comic Zenon magazine in 2010. They launched a comedy spinoff manga titled Chiruran Nibun no Ichi in the magazine in May 2016. The spinoff manga received an anime adaptation in January 2017.

Source: M&C's Facebook page via Kaori Nusantara