Atsushi Kaneko Launches MISH/MASH In Big Comic Spirits
Kaneko moves from Kadokawa's Comic Beam, where EVOL ran and ended at ten volumes, to Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits, with a tagline that names the magazine's own subject rather than a genre.
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The combined 42nd and 43rd issue of Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits announced Monday that Atsushi Kaneko will launch a new series, MISH/MASH, in the next issue on September 28. The magazine teases it with the tagline: "In the untrustworthy age of social media, AI, and fake news, what do you believe?" Kaneko ended the EVOL manga with its tenth volume in November 2025.
Kaneko's last serialization ended in November 2025, when the tenth volume of EVOL closed out a run that began in Kadokawa's Comic Beam in August 2020 and later produced a live-action series. The new series arrives with a tagline aimed at social media, AI, and fake news, and a slot in one of Shogakukan's weekly magazines rather than the seinen monthly that carried EVOL. Kaneko's back catalog includes SOIL and Wet Moon, both nominated for Best Crime Comic at France's Angoulême International Comics Festival, and Search and Destroy, based on Osamu Tezuka's Dororo, which Fantagraphics and Mangasplaining Extra released in print and which the American Library Association's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table gave Honors in the Series category of its 2025 Outstanding Comics Award for Adults.
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