Atsushi Kaneko’s MISH/MASH Manga Set for September 28 Debut
Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits announced the new series in its combined 42nd and 43rd issue.
Atsushi Kaneko will launch MISH/MASH in Big Comic Spirits on September 28. The magazine’s teaser asks what people can believe amid social media, AI, and fake news.
Atsushi Kaneko will debut MISH/MASH in the next issue of Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits on September 28. The magazine announced the series Monday in its combined 42nd and 43rd issue.
The teaser asks readers what they believe in an age when social media, AI, and fake news make trust uncertain.
Kaneko’s EVOL concluded with its tenth volume in November 2025. The manga began in Kadokawa’s Comic Beam in August 2020 and inspired a live-action series that premiered in November 2023.
Other earlier works include:
- Bambi and her Pink Gun: Digital Manga Publishing released two of its six volumes in English in 2005.
- SOIL: The manga inspired a live-action television series in 2010 and received a Best Crime Comic nomination at France’s Angoulême International Comics Festival.
- Wet Moon: This manga also received a Best Crime Comic nomination at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
In January, the American Library Association’s (ALA) Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) recognized Search and Destroy. Fantagraphics and Mangasplaining Extra’s (MSX) releases of all three volumes received Honors in the “Series” category of its 2025 Outstanding Comics Award for Adults.
Based on Osamu Tezuka’s Dororo manga, Kaneko’s Search and Destroy began in Micro Magazine Publishing Company’s TezuComi magazine in October 2018. It concluded after 18 chapters.
Mangasplaining started serializing Search and Destroy in its Mangasplaining Extra (MSX) newsletter in August 2023. Fantagraphics and Mangasplaining Extra published the print edition.
Source: ANN
