New Rokudenashi Blues Manga Delayed to Winter, Gets New Artist
The artist change and delay push the spinoff to winter, replacing Boichi with Yuki Yoshimoto on a story set in the early 1990s about an undepicted fight between Onizuka and Kasai.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Shueisha's Grand Jump announced on August 19 that the launch of Rokudenashi Blues Gaiden: Onikazura is delayed from summer to winter and will now feature art by Yuki Yoshimoto. Boichi was originally announced as the artist. The manga is set in the early 1990s and centers on Onizuka and Kasai, two of the story's "four heavenly kings."
Grand Jump's 18th issue announced the new artist and winter launch on August 19. The manga is based on Masanori Morita's Rokudenashi Blues and is set in the first half of the 1990s, during the original series' run. Morita stated on X/Twitter in January that the story is not a sequel, but about "the fight between those two people" that took place in the manga but was never shown.
The original Rokudenashi Blues ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1988 to 1997, spanning 42 volumes. Yoshimoto previously worked with Jun'ichi Fujisaku on Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm, which ran from 2019 to 2025.
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