Ryoko (manga)

Not to be confused with Ryuko (manga).
Ryoko
First tankōbon volume cover
GenreAction[1]
Manga
Written byKaito Mitsuhashi
Published byShogakukan
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runOctober 19, 2016 – June 26, 2019
Volumes5

Ryoko (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kaito Mitsuhashi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from October 2016 to June 2019, with its chapters collected in five tankōbon volumes.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Kaito Mitsuhashi, Ryoko was preceded by a work titled Ryoko Meet Meal!!, for which Mitsuhashi, at 21, won the Shin Shedai Sunday Award (New Generation Sunday Award) for his work in December 2015.[2][3] Takenori Ichihara, then Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday editor-in-chief, decided to make Ryoko a serialized work, making it the first time in 38 years that an editor-in-chief directly chooses a newcomer's work to be serialized in the magazine, since Rumiko Takahashi's Kattena Yatsura (Urusei Yatsura prototype) in 1978. It was also the first time that a newcomer award-winning work would be serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, since Obi wo Gyutto Ne! [ja] by Katsutoshi Kawai [ja] (1989 debut) and Ushio & Tora by Kazuhiro Fujita (1990 debut).[2][4]

The manga began in Weekly Shōnen Sunday on October 19, 2016.[4][2] The manga went on hiatus after its 22nd chapter, published on March 29, 2017.[5] The series resumed publication on January 23, 2019,[6][7] and finished on June 26 of the same year.[8] Shogakukan collected its chapters in five tankōbon volumes, released from February 17, 2017, to September 18, 2019.[9][10]

Volumes

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 February 17, 2017[9]978-4-09-127504-2
2 February 18, 2019[11]978-4-09-127556-1
3 February 18, 2019[12]978-4-09-128893-6
4 May 17, 2019[13]978-4-09-129160-8
5 September 18, 2019[10]978-4-09-129333-6

References

  1. ^ サンデーの新鋭・三ツ橋快人が描く「RYOKO」1巻、自我を持つ食材を少女が狩る. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 17, 2017. Archived from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c RYOKO：「うる星やつら」以来38年ぶりに編集長が新人抜擢 サンデーで連載開始. Mantan Web (in Japanese). October 19, 2016. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  3. ^ プロ漫画家への登竜門！ 新世代サンデー賞. Club Sunday (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on April 4, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  4. ^ a b 河合克敏、藤田和日郎以来の快挙！サンデーの新人賞受賞作「RYOKO」連載開始. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. October 19, 2016. Archived from the original on September 10, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  5. ^ 週刊少年サンデー 2017年 表示号数18. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  6. ^ 高橋留美子がサンデーに帰還！来年早春に新連載、コトヤマ読み切りや「RYOKO」も. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. December 4, 2018. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  7. ^ バケモノ食材×日本刀少女「RYOKO」連載再開、うぇぶりでは全話無料公開. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. January 23, 2019. Archived from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  8. ^ 少年サンデー ２０１９年３０号 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on May 16, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  9. ^ a b "ＲＹＯＫＯ １" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  10. ^ a b "ＲＹＯＫＯ ５" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  11. ^ "ＲＹＯＫＯ ２" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  12. ^ "ＲＹＯＫＯ ３" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  13. ^ "ＲＹＯＫＯ ４" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved October 25, 2020.