Salaryman Kintaro's Hiroshi Motomiya Ends Enma Manga
Series about kind man collecting 5 billion yen in debt launched on January 9
On Thursday, the last chapter of Hiroshi Motomiya's Enma manga was published in the 26th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine. A single compiled volume of the manga will be released in fall.
The manga centers on Ken Ōshima, a kind man who assumes the role of debt collector. He takes on everyone from gangsters to politicians to collect a total of five billion yen (about US$35 million) in loans.
On January 9th, Weekly Young Jump published Motomiya's new manga series. However, there was a short break in March.
In June 2024, Shueisha introduced the manga series "Jinsei Iroiro" (Various Colors of Life) in its "Grand Jump" magazine.
In April 2023, Motomiya concluded his manga series "Takeki Ōgon no Kuni" which was published in Grand Jump starting in December 2022. Shueisha released one compiled book volume of this manga in June 2023.
Motomiya's Takeki Ōgon no Kuni manga series ran in Shueisha's Business Jump magazine from 1990 to 1992, featuring tales of Japanese historical figures. Earlier volumes focused on Yatarō Iwasaki in 1990, Dōsan in 2000, Munenori Yagyū in 2010, Tadataka Inō from November 2020 to July 2021, Sontoku Ninomiya from October 2021 to May 2022, and Kimimasa Yuri in July 2022.
In 1965, Motomiya started his career as a manga artist with his first work. Some of his other popular mangas like Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho, Ore no Sora, and Otokogi have been adapted into live-action and anime versions. His Katsu Fūtarō!! manga inspired a live-action film that was released in November 2019.
Two live-action films based on the popular manga series "Salaryman Kintaro" by Motomiya have been released in Japan. "Salaryman Kintaro Akatsuki-hen" ( "Salaryman Kintaro Dawn") premiered on January 10th, while "Salaryman Kintaro Sakigake-hen" ( "Salaryman Kintaro Vanguard") was released on February 7th.
Since its debut in Weekly Young Jump magazine in 1994, "The Salaryman Kintaro" manga series by Akira Toriyama has continued to run intermittently. In April of 2005, it was restarted as a web manga. Following this, several spinoff series have been launched within Weekly Young Jump. Although NTT Solmare's ComicFriends Facebook service briefly offered "The Salaryman Kintaro" in English, it was shut down in 2012. This popular series inspired a live-action film directed by Takashi Miike, several live-action drama series, as well as a 2001 anime series that Arts Magic released in North America.
Source: Young Jump issue 29
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