Written by Tetsuo Hara English publisher Gutsoon! Entertainment Original run 1990 – 1993 Studio Studio Deen Adapted from Ichimuan Fūryūki Main characters Sutemaru, Matsu | Published by Shueisha Demographic Shōnen Volumes 18 Genre Fighting game Music by KAZSIN | |
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Magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump, Weekly Comic Bunch Similar Fist of the Blue Sky, Fist of the North Star, Lupin the Third, Sakigake!! Otokojuku, Terra Formars | ||
Keiji (花の慶次 -雲のかなたに-, Hana no Keiji -Kumo no Kanata ni-, lit. "The Flowery Keiji: At the Other Side of the Clouds") is a period manga authored by Tetsuo Hara, which was serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1990 to 1993. It is an adaptation of the novel Ichi-Mu-An Fūryūki (一夢庵風流記) by Keiichiro Ryu and serves as a fictionalized account of the life of Keiji Maeda. Hana no Keiji is one of Weekly Shōnen Jump's best-selling manga series of all time, with over 17 million copies sold.
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Hana no Keiji was originally published as a one-shot manga published in issue 50 of 1989 of the Weekly Shōnen Jump. The serialized version was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump as well from issue 13 of 1990 to issue 33 of 1993. 18 tankōbon editions were published under the Jump Comics imprint. The series was republished in a 10-volume bunkokan edition by Shueisha and a 15-volume kanzenban edition by Tokuma Shoten from 2004 to 2005.
An English version of the manga was serialized in the short-lived anthology Raijin Comics published by the now-defunct Gutsoon! Entertainment, where the first 26 chapters were printed, although no collected volumes were published. Solicitations were released for the first two unpublished collected volumes under the Raijin Graphic Novels imprint.
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After the conclusion of Keiji, Tetsuo Hara adapted another of Keiichiro Ryu's novels titled Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu, centering on Tokugawa Ieyasu's body double. It was followed by a spinoff titled Sakon, centering on Sakon Shima. In 2008, a Keiji spinoff titled Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu, written by Tetsuo Hara and Nobuhiko Horie and illustrated by Yuji Takemura, began to be serialized in the Weekly Comic Bunch. The latter title has been adapted into a TV anime aired first on July 2, 2013, entitled Gifū Dōdō!! Kanetsugu to Keiji, and streaming on Crunchyroll.
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