Manga author Harii Yuu announced on their Twitter account that their Crusher Joe REBIRTH manga will resume serialisation after a three-year hiatus, although no exact date was given. It was also revealed that all of the manga’s previously released chapters are available for free on Kodansha’s Comic Days platform until June 18th, 2025.
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The manga is an adaptation of Takachino Haruka’s Crusher Joe science fiction novel series, which was initially published from 1977 with illustrations by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. The original novel series was adapted into a manga in 1979 by Takachino and artist Hosono Fujihiko and the novels were also adapted into an anime film in 1983 and an OVA in 1989 by studio Sunrise.
Harii launched the Crusher Joe REBIRTH manga in September 2017 in Kodansha’s Evening, and Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in September 2018. The manga’s fifth volume was released in February 2022, and in the same year, it was announced that the manga would be going on hiatus.
Publisher Hayakawa Publishing releases the novel series, and it describes the first novel below:
In the year 2161, humanity, having made interstellar travel possible, has expanded throughout the galaxy, creating a federation of 8,000 independent nations, the Galactic Federation. The vanguard of this development is a group called the Crushers. They are jack-of-all-trades in space, and will undertake dangerous missions, from maintaining routes to remodelling planets, if requested. Joe, one of the best among them, is asked by the princess to lead his team to the coalition planet Pizan, where a rebellion has broken out.
