is a Japanese
manga series written by Dai Tennōji and illustrated Rikiya Gō. It is serialized in ''
Weekly Manga Goraku
is a Japanese weekly manga magazine published since 1968 by Nihon Bungeisha which targets a demographic of adult men. The magazine is published every Friday.
Serialized works
Listed alphabetically by title.
*''69 Denashi'' (Yasuhito Yamamoto)
*' ...
'' magazine by
Nihon Bungeisha
, or , is a book and magazine publisher established in 1959 and based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
Magazines
*'' Weekly Manga Goraku''
*''Comic Heaven''
*''Bessatsu Manga Goraku''
*''Manga Goraku Nexter''
*''Golf Lesson Comic''
*''Manga Pachinko D ...
. The first volume was published in March 1992 and, as of December 2018, the series has 150 volumes. It has been adapted into several
live-action
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films, including
original video
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s and two
television films
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and also into two
original video animations.
Characters
* Ginjirō Manda
Media
Films
The first
original video
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film was released on 26 June 1992. The first theatrical film was released on 26 June 1993.
Incomplete list
*The King of Minami Returns: Scholarship and Oreore Fraud (2016)
*The King of Minami The Movie (2017)
*The King of Minami Returns: The Price of a Life (2017)
*The King of Minami Returns: Light and Shadow (2017)
Reception
The manga has sold 53 million copies.
See also
*
List of best-selling manga
*
List of manga series by volume count
This is a list of manga series by volume count of manga series that span at least 40 ''tankōbon'' volumes. There are 176 manga series from which 108 series are completed and 68 series are in ongoing serialization. Ongoing series are highlighted ...
References
External links
''Shin Minami no Teiō''on
KTV
Business in anime and manga
Manga adapted into films
Nihon Bungeisha manga
Seinen manga
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