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Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu: Maeda Keiji Hana-gatari Manga to End in 14th Volume
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The 13th volume of Tetsuo Hara, Nobuhiko Horie, and Masato Deguchi's Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Hana-gatari- manga revealed on Friday that the manga's 14th volume will be the final volume. The final volume will ship on November 20.
The manga is the the final series in Hara and Horie's story about the samurai Maeda Keiji. The manga launched in the Comic Zenon magazine in March 2014.
Hara (Fist of the North Star) first created the 1990-1993 manga Hana no Keiji -Kumo no Kanata ni- to adapt Keiichirō Ryū's novel about Maeda Keiji.
Hara and magazine editor Horie then brought in manga artist Yūji Takemura to launch the spin-off Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Tsuki-gatari- manga in Shinchosha's Weekly Comic Bunch magazine in 2008. According to Hara, he felt he did not delve far enough into the life of Maeda's close friend Naoe in the earlier manga. However, Weekly Comic Bunch folded in 2010 after Shinchosha had published nine compiled volumes.
As a result, Horie launched Comic Zenon in 2010. The three creators launched the Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Sake-gatari- manga in Comic Zenon's inaugural issue. That series ended in the 10th compiled volume in spring 2014.
The sequel manga inspired the Gifū Dōdō!! Kanetsugu to Keiji television anime series, which debuted in Japan in July 2013. Crunchyroll streamed the 26-episode series as it aired.
Source: Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Hana-gatari volume 13
