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Samurai Deeper Kyo's Kamijyō Turns Rampo Edogawa Shorts Into Full Series
posted on by Kevin Yuan
This year's 11th issue of Rampo Edogawa's short stories and will feature a great detective facing off against a mysterious figure.
The issue also features Kamijyō's "Kobayashi Shōnen to Futei no Kaijin: Edogawa manga, which is based on Edogawa's 1925 short story "The Psychological Test." Kamijyō posted preview images of the one-shot last month.
Kodansha previously published Kamijyō's two-chapter Kobayashi Shōnen to Futei no Kaijin: Edogawa Rampo 'D-zaka no Satsujin Jiken' yori (Young Kobayashi and the Lawless Fiend: From Rampo Edogawa's "The Case of the Murder on D. Hill") manga in Weekly Young Magazine in November and December. The manga is based on Edogawa's 1925 short story "The Case of the Murder on D. Hill." The story is the first in Edogawa's series about the fictional private detective Kogorō Akechi. In the original short story and series, the character Yoshio Kobayashi leads the Boy Detectives Club and is Akechi's apprentice. The boy often dresses in disguise as a young woman to help solve mysteries.
The manga marks the first time that Kamijyō is publishing a work in Weekly Young Magazine. Kamijyō most recently Evening magazine in 2014, and ended the series in January 2016.
Kamijyō streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and later released the series on home video.
released in North America.
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