is a Japanese

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

series written and illustrated by

Coolkyousinnjya is a Japanese manga artist known for the series ''Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid'', ''I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying'', and '' Komori-san Can't Decline''. History In 2011, Coolkyousinnjya published the first volume of ''I Can't Unde ...

, serialized on Neetsha's webcomic distribution site ''Weekly Young VIP'' since January 2008. The remake version written by Coolkyousinnjya and illustrated by Johanne has been serialized in

Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...

's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Shōnen Magazine R'', as well as the website and app Magazine Pocket, since August 2015 and has been collected in nine ''

tankōbon is the Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or cultur ...

'' volumes. The manga is licensed in North America by Kodansha USA. An

anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

television series adaptation produced by

Asahi Production is a Japanese animation studio established on 1 June 1973. It is located in Nerima, Tokyo. History Asahi Production was founded in 1973, initially establishing itself as a specialized shooting studio and PR movie company. At its inception, T ...

aired from July to September 2021.

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Media

Manga

Anime

television series adaptation of the remake version was announced on August 7, 2020. The series is animated by

and directed by Shigeru Ueda, with Keiichirō Ōchi handling series composition, Satomi Kurita and Masato Katō designing the characters, and Takaaki Nakahashi composing the series' music. It aired from July 1 to September 16, 2021, on

Tokyo MX JOMX-DTV, branded as Tokyo MX (officially stylized as TOKYO MX), is an independent television station in Tokyo, Japan, owned by the . It is the only television station that exclusively serves the city. It competes with Nippon TV, TV Asahi, NH ...

, BS NTV, and AT-X. Q-MHz produced the opening theme song, "Dark spiral journey" featuring

Yuko Suzuhana () is a Japanese singer, composer, pianist, and poet, best known as the leader of Wagakki Band. Biography At the age of three, Yuko Suzuhana began studying classical piano. She began studying Shigin and Kenshibu at the age of five. After grad ...

, while Mitei no Hanashi performed the ending theme song, "Yoru o Koeru Ashioto" (Footsteps Across the Night).

Crunchyroll Crunchyroll is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Sony through a joint venture between Sony Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex. The service primarily distributes films and tel ...

licensed the series outside of Asia. Medialink has licensed the series in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and is streaming it on their Ani-One

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channel, but this series is only viewable on their YouTube channel with Ani-One Ultra Membership scheme. Ani-One will upload this anime to their YouTube channel from July 1 for

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Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

and

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

and from July 15 for other Asian regions.

Episode list

The series is released in two different versions: the which airs in an anachronical order that rearranges the chronological order of the original story, while the (which is exclusively released on the Japanese streaming platform ) follows the

chronological order Chronology (from Latin ''chronologia'', from Ancient Greek , ''chrónos'', "time"; and , ''-logia'') is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time. Consider, for example, the use of a timeline or sequence of events. It ...

of the original story.

Game

A video game adaptation, ''Peach Boy Riverside Battle Saga'', was launched on the HTML5 game platform, G123, on July 1, 2021.

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