The first volume of Asano Inio’s new series Mujina into the Deep, serialized on Shogakukan‘s Big Comic Superior since March 10, 2023, is now available for sale. Asano shared the animated trailer promoting the release on his Twitter account.
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“Mujina” is the world for people who have renounced all of their human rights, completely removing them from society. Unable to even walk down the street without being arrested, they move across rooftops in illegally modified, movement-enhancing boots. Some of them take advantage of existing outside of the system, working as hitmen. Whether they are admired as unfettered mavericks or looked down on as less than human, their mere existence casts a shadow of doubt on society as everyone always takes it for granted.
Debuting in 2000 and winning first prize in the 2001 GX competition for young manga artists, Asano is known for Solanin, which was serialized in Shogakukan‘s Weekly Young Sunday from 2005 to 2006, and adapted into a live-action movie feature directed by Miki Takahiro and starring Miyazaki Aoi in 2010; in the same year, Asian Kung-Fu Generation released a single named after the manga, with lyrics written by Asano himself. Asano is also known for the award-winning manga Oyasumi Punpun and Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction.