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

Yū Koyama is a Japanese manga artist. After graduating from the University of Shizuoka he moved to Tokyo and in 1968 took a job with Saito Productions, the company run by Takao Saitō. In 1971 he worked with Kazuo Koike at Studio Ship. Koyama debuted in ...

. It was serialized in

Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, comics (manga), non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hit ...

's ''

Weekly Shōnen Sunday is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan since March 1959. Contrary to its title, ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' issues are released on Wednesdays. ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' has sold over 1.8billion copies since 1986, ...

'' from October 1984 to April 1987. Its chapters were collected in fourteen ''

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.

Manga

Sprinter is written and illustrated by Yū Koyama. It started in the 1984 46th issue of Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' on October 31, 1984, and was his second manga serialized in the magazine after ''

Ganbare Genki is a Japanese sports manga by Yū Koyama about Genki Horiguchi, a boy who is raised by a single father, and who wants to be a boxer like him. It was adapted as an anime television series by Toei Animation. The manga received the Shogakukan Ma ...

''. It finished in the 1987 17th issue of the magazine on April 8, 1987. The series was collected into fourteen ''tankōbon'' volumes published by Shogakukan, released from April 18, 1985 to May 18, 1987.

Volume list

References

External links

Official Shogakukan manga web site
{{Weekly Shōnen Sunday - 1980–1989 Shogakukan manga Shōnen manga