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Takeshi Obata’s Shoha Shoten! Starts Serialization In Jump SQ

Obata's work has been serialized in the Jump SQ. magazine for the first time in about nine months since "Platinum End".

The official Twitter account of Shueisha’s Jump SQ. unveiled the first look of “Death Note” manga artist Takeshi Obata and novelist Akinari Asakura’s new manga Shōha Shōten! on October 4 in the November oversized issue

Before this project Obata was busy with his usual collaborator, Tsugumi Ohba, working on the manga Platinum End. They concluded it in January 2021, after initially starting it in 2015. The manga’s 14th and final compiled book volume shipped on February 4.

The manga centers on a high school student who sends material to programs and a former child actor, who two teams up to become an aspiring comedian duo.

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Obata and Ohba serialized Death Note from 2003 to 2006 and Bakuman. from 2008 to 2012, both in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Viz Media publishes both in North America. Both mangas have inspired anime and live-action adaptations.

Source: Mantan web