Manga Plus Service Adds Toshio Sako's Genikasuri Manga

Shueisha announced on Wednesday that its MANGA Plus service has added Toshio Sako's Genikasuri boxing manga. The first 14 chapters are available on the service.

MANGA Plus describes the story:

After one fateful match, former professional boxer Ryo Harima awakens from a two-year vegetative state to find out his career is over, his father has died, and he's been betrayed by his gym… Broken and fueled by rage, he vows to make it to the top of the boxing world, but this time as a promoter. Prepare yourself for a story about manipulation and money from the dark corner of the boxing world!!!

Sako debuted the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine on February 6. Shueisha will publish the manga's first compiled book volume on June 18.

Sako ended the Batuque manga in the Tonari no Young Jump web magazine and the Yanjan! app in February 2024. Shueisha shipped the 18th and final volume in March 2024. Sako launched the Batuque manga in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in July 2018, and it moved online to the Tonari no Young Jump web magazine and the Yanjan! app in May 2020.

Usogui -Rikkainin Yakō Hikoichi- launched in Weekly Young Jump in October 2021. The magazine initially announced the manga with the title Usogui: Tokubetsu-hen (The Lie Eater: Special Arc). The series ended in November 2021.

Sako began the Usogui manga in 2006, and ended it in December 2017. The manga has 49 volumes. The series inspired an original video animation (OVA) bundled with the manga's 26th volume in 2012. The manga inspired a live-action film that opened in February 2022.

Source: MANGA Plus' X/Twitter account