Manga returns on July 10
© Yukinobu Hoshino, Shogakukan
This year’s 11th issue of Shogakukan’s Big Comic magazine revealed on Friday that Yukinobu Hoshino’s Munakata Kyōju Sekai-hen (Professor Munakata – World Arc), a new manga in his Munakata Kyōju (Professor Munakata) series, will go on hiatus and will return with color pages on July 10.
Hoshino launched the manga in Big Comic in February 2023. Shogakukan published the manga’s fifth compiled book volume on January 30.
Hoshino’s Munakata Kyōju series centers on the titular Professor Munakata, an anthropology professor who explores the connections between cultural myths and legends, and how they reflect on our parallel history.
The Munakata Kyōju Denkikō manga ran in Ushio Publishing’s Comic Tom and Comic Tom Plus magazines from 1994 to 1999, followed by the Munakata Kyōju Ikōroku sequel manga in Big Comic from 2004 to 2010.
Hoshino also created the 2001 Nights science-fiction manga series, which he originally serialized in Futabasha’s Monthly Super Action magazine in 1984-1986. Viz Media released the three-volume manga in North America. The manga inspired an original video anime (OVA) of the same name in 1987, and another OVA titled TO (2001 Nights) in 2009. Funimation licensed and released the 2009 OVA in North America in June 2011 on Blu-ray Disc and DVD and again on DVD in July 2015. UK distributor Manga Entertainment released the OVA in the United Kingdom on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in August 2011.
Hoshino ended his Rainman manga in January 2018.
Source: Big Comic issue 11
