Haruna Nakazato And Tōto Hasuo Announce A New Manga in Weekly Young Magazine

The eighth issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Young Magazine, released on Monday, confirmed that story creator Tōto Hasuo and artist Haruna Nakazato will launch a new manga titled Go to Go (Rank and Go [board game]) in the magazine’s next issue on January 27.

This announcement highlights the manga as a first for the magazine, featuring a traditional go board game as its central theme.

In addition, Nakazato previously collaborated with Kantetsu on the Endroll Back manga, which was released on Square Enix’s Manga UP! service in 2019 and concluded in 2021.

The manga’s first volume was published by Square Enix in 2020, with the third and final volume following in 2021. Alien Books began releasing the manga’s first volume in English in April 2024, with the third volume arriving on October 29.

Nakazato also worked on the three-volume BLAST manga, which was serialized on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket service from September 2022 to July 2023.