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M&C! Licenses Kono Ken ge Tsuki o Kiru Manga About Okita Sōji
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Manga about youth of Shinsengumi captain launched in June 2016, ended in December 2016
Indonesian publisher M&C! announced last Thursday that it has licensed Atsunori Horiuchi's Kono Ken ga Tsuki o Kiru (This Sword Shall Cut the Moon) manga.
The manga centers on the young Okita Sōjirō, the boy who would one day become The Shinsen-gumi captain Okita Sōji. The story begins when he is nine years old, when he begins his training at the Shieikan dojo alongside senior student Shimazaki Katsuta, the future Shinesengumi commander Kondō Isami.
Horiuchi launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in June 2016, and ended it in December of the same year. Kodansha published the manga's third and final compiled book volume in January 2017.