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Tohru Fujisawa Launches Re: Animal Joe Manga on May 13 (Updated)
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
This year's combined 22nd and 23rd issues of Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine revealed on Saturday that Tohru Fujisawa will launch a new manga in the magazine's next issue on May 13 titled Re: Animal Joe. The manga's first chapter will have an opening color page.
Fujisawa published the Animal Joe manga (pictured at right) in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine from 2007-2008, but the manga was never finished. Shogakukan published one volume for the manga in 2008. The manga centers on Joe Kirishima, an elite businessman who is cool, handsome, and has a wonderful wife and a Porsche. But underneath all that, he has another face that he must keep secret.
Fujisawa recently announced that he will launch his planned Red Data Planet manga with co-creator Iomaru in Akita Shoten's Bessatsu Shōnen Champion magazine starting on July 12. Fujisawa had announced the manga in August 2013, with a planned launch in Kodansha's Magazine Special in December 2013. However, the manga did not launch in that magazine as planned.
Fujisawa is known for such manga as GTO, GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, Soul Reviver, Kamen Teacher, and Kamen Teacher Black, among many others.
Update: The 24th issue of Weekly Young Magazine revealed on May 13 that the Re: Animal Joe manga will run for only two chapters.
Source: Weekly Young Magazine issue 22/23
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