Shueisha announced its MANGA Plus app will begin to simultaneously publish new manga from the Weekly Young Jump magazine worldwide, excluding Japan, Korea, and China. The stream of releases on MANGA Plus will begin with Yūji Ninomiya’s Bungo -unreal- series, which launched on October 8 in Japan in Weekly Young Jump.
Ninomiya’s Bungo -unreal- series is a sequel to the original Bungo baseball manga. In the new manga, the characters from Bungo have entered high school, and the story continues. Ninomiya launched the original Bungo manga in December 2014 and ended it in December 2024 before preparing the sequel. Shueisha published the manga’s 41st and final compiled book volume on April 17.
Lastly, here’s an overview of the new manga series, via MANGA Plus:
After diligently practicing “wall ball,” Bungo Ishihama meets Yukio Noda, a member of Japan’s youth baseball national team in a fateful encounter. The two then advance to middle school and join the ultra-competitive “Seio Senior” team. Aiming for the top of middle school baseball, they engage in fierce battles! As time passes, the duo moves on to high school, setting their sights on achieving “five consecutive Koshien championships,” once again striving for the top!
