The April issue of Shogakukan’s Monthly Shonen Sunday magazine announced on Wednesday that Masasumi Kakizaki will debut a new series titled Kyokuhoku no Geroi (Geroi in the Arctic) in the magazine’s May issue, set for release on April 12.
A teaser image for Kyokuhoku no Geroi was shared via Monthly Shonen Sunday.
The story is set in Shumshu, near the northernmost tip of the Kuril Islands, at the frontline of the war against the United States. As the summer of 1945 nears its end and the war approaches its conclusion, an unexpected battle is about to begin.
Kakizaki concluded the manga Yomotsuhegui: Scions of the Underworld (Yomotsuhegui: Shisha no Kuni no Kajitsu) in September 2023. The series originally launched in Kodansha’s Monthly Young Magazine in October 2021.
Kyokuhoku no Geroi
The manga adaptation of the live-action television movie Spy no Tsuma (The Spy’s Wife), also by Kakizaki, ended on March 19, 2021. The second and final compiled volume was released on the same day.
Kakizaki first launched the series in Shogakukan’s Sunday GX magazine in August 2020, with the first compiled volume published in October 2020.
Kakizaki also collaborated with George Abe on the Rainbow – Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin prison manga, which was adapted into a television anime series in 2010.
Funimation streamed the anime on its website. Additionally, Kakizaki’s horror manga Kansen Rettō was adapted into a live-action film that premiered in 2009.
