The official Young Magazine Twitter account announced on Friday that the television anime adaptation of Kengo Hanazawa’s Under Ninja manga will premiere in 2023.
Kodoani.com – The manga’s eighth manga volume was also released on Friday.
Manga publisher Denpa has licensed the manga and will publish the first volume on September 13. Denpa describes the manga:
A lonely high school student is assigned a lifelong part-time job as a modern-day ninja tasked with carrying out international assassinations.
After World War II, Allied Command in Japan developed a new agency to help manage terrorism and violence in the Pacific region. The agency is staffed with ninjas and they were initially tasked with dealing with domestic affairs. That program eventually evolved into its current form, managing 20,000 ninjas in a wide range of domestic and international affairs. One of those ninjas is Kudo. The losing seventeen-year-old high school student is now poised to become the next line of defense against a potential surge of foreign assassins invading Tokyo.
NHK World TV’s Imagine-nation, an English-language program airing on an international broadcast service, announced in March 2020 that Hanazawa’s Under Ninja manga will begin serialization in the US, Italy, China, and the US. other countries in April 2020.
Hanazawa (I am a Hero) launched the manga in Kodansha’s Young Magazine in July 2018.
Hanazawa launched the I am a Hero manga in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits magazine in 2009, and ended the series in 2017 with 22 volumes. The series already has two spinoff manga series. A live-action film adaptation premiered in Japan in April 2016.
Via: Kodoani.com
