Riki-Oh’s Tetsuya Saruwatari To Launch Manga Based On Moby Dick

The official web site for Shueisha’s Grand Soar Mucha journal introduced on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, that manga creator Tetsuya Saruwatari will launch a brand new manga mini-series based mostly on Herman Melville‘s novel, Moby Dick. The manga titled Ahab will debut within the journal’s subsequent challenge on June 21.

The plot of the manga follows whaling captain Ahab on his single-minded mission to wreak revenge on Moby Dick, the whale who robbed him of a leg on a earlier voyage.

The three-issue manga may have a coloration opening web page and might be featured on the entrance cowl of the June challenge.

Tetsuya Saruwatari is a Japanese manga artist. After dropping out of highschool, he labored as an assistant to Hiramatsu Shinji and Motomiya Hiroshi. He made his debut as a solo manga artist with Umi No Senshi in Weekly Shōnen Soar. Saruwatari’s longest-running manga is the motion comedian Powerful which has been serialized in Younger Soar over a decade. Saruwatari additionally created Riki-Oh, a cult manga sensation that includes graphic martial arts preventing, which was tailored in a Hong Kong live-action movie and Japanese OVA. Saruwatari illustrated ZIG, written by Takashi Nagasaki, for Shueisha’s Grand Soar in 2017.

Supply: Grand Soar Mucha web site