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Ushijima the Loan Shark Spinoff Manga About Nikumamushi Takes Break, Returns This Summer
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Shogakukan's online magazine Yawaraka Spirits published the 50th chapter on April 23 of Yū Hayato's Yamikin Ushijima-kun Nikumamushi Densetsu (Ushijima the Loan Shark: The Legend of Nikumamushi) spinoff manga, and noted that the manga is taking a break and will return "around" this summer.
The manga launched on Yawaraka Spirits in February 2017 and is a spinoff of Shohei Manabe's Ushijima the Loan Shark manga that centers on the character Nikumamushi. Shogakukan published the manga's fifth volume on February 28, and will publish the sixth volume on May 30.
Manabe launched main Ushijima the Loan Shark manga in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in 2004, and ended the series on March 4. The manga's 46th and final volume will ship on May 30. Ōdō Yamazaki's Yamikin Ushijima-kun Gaiden: Ramen Namerikawa-san (Ushijima the Loan Shark Side Story: Ramen Namerikawa) manga will also end in its fifth volume on May 30.
The main manga won in the General category of the 56th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2011. The series was also nominated for an Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize in 2008 and 2010, as well as for France's Angoulême Comics Awards in 2008.
A live-action television series adaptation ran from October-December 2010, and the first film opened in August 2012. A second season premiered in January 2014, with a second film then premiering in May 2014. The third season premiered in July 2016, while the third film opened in Japan in September 2016. The fourth and final live-action film, Yamikin Ushijima-kun The Final, opened in Japan in October 2016.
Source: Yawaraka Spirits
