O-Parts Hunter's Seishi Kishimoto Launches Mad Chimera World Manga

This year's May issue of Kodansha's Morning Two magazine revealed on Wednesday that Seishi Kishimoto (O-Parts Hunter, Sukedachi Nine) is launching a new manga titled Mad Chimera World in the magazine's June issue, which will ship on April 22. The battle action series will feature a color page in the issue.


Kishimoto launched the Sukedachi Nine (Assist Nine) manga (pictured at right) in Square Enix's Shonen Gangan magazine in October 2014, and he ended the series on July 12. The manga received two side-story chapters in 2014. Square Enix published the manga's fifth and final volume on September 21.

Kishimoto previously wrote the action fantasy manga Kurenai no Ōkami to Ashikase no Hitsuji (The Crimson Wolf and the Trapped Sheep) in 2011-2013, and the fighting manga Blazer Drive in 2008-2010. He serialized his adventure series O-Parts Hunter (666 Satan) in Shonen Gangan from 2001 until 2007, and Viz Media published all 19 volumes of the manga between 2006 and 2009.

Kishimoto is the younger twin brother of Naruto manga creator Masashi Kishimoto.​