Daisuke Watanabe also launches new manga in early spring
This year’s 22nd issue of Shogakukan‘s Big Comic Superior magazine announced last Friday that Tarō Nogizaka will launch a new manga tentatively titled Manazashi Tamako no Jiyū Kenkyū (Tamako Manazashi’s Independent Research) in the magazine’s first 2026 issue on December 12. The manga’s preview image is the rightmost illustration below.
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Daisuke Watanabe (Gedō no Uta) will also launch a new manga titled Uchūjin wa Iranai (No Need for Aliens, leftmost in image above) in the magazine in early spring.
Nogizaka’s Iryū – Team Medical Dragon manga previously inspired four live-action television series in 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2014. Crunchyroll streamed all four series starting in 2014.
Nogizaka’s Natsume Arata no Kekkon (Arata Natsume’s Marriage) manga inspired a live-action film that opened in November 2024. The manga ran in Shogakukan‘s Big Comic Superior magazine from June 2019 to January 2024, and has a total of 12 compiled book volumes.
Source: Big Comic Superior issue 22
