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Viz's Shonen Jump to Run New Bakuman. Prequel Chapters, Samon the Summoner Preview
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Shueisha's Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump.
Tsugumi Ohba are again collaborating on the manga, which will chronicle a time before "Saikō" (Moritaka Mashiro) and "Shūjin" (Akito Takagi) met.
The two creators of released part of the television anime on DVD in North America.
The live-action film starring premiere in Japan on October 3.
Additionally, Viz Media's Shonen Jump will debut the first three chapters of debut in next week's issue of both the English and Japanese versions of the magazine.
The new "demon-like unusual comedy" manga will center on high school student and summoner named Samon. Shueisha previously published Numa's three-chapter Moromono no Jijō manga in Weekly Shonen Jump last year.
Viz Media launched a "Jump Start" initiative in North America last September. Under this initiative, Viz's digital English version of Weekly Shonen Jump will run the first three chapters of "almost every single" new series that debuts in Shueisha's original Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in Japan.
