Black Tiger (manga)

Black Tiger (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Akimoto. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Grand Jump from December 2016 to February 2023, with its chapters collected in 11 tankōbon volumes.

Black Tiger
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring the title character
Genre
Manga
Written byOsamu Akimoto
Published byShueisha
MagazineGrand Jump
DemographicSeinen
Original runDecember 21, 2016 – February 1, 2023
Volumes11

Premise

In the turmoil following the American Civil War, security in the south has rapidly declined. In response, the United States government significantly increased the reward for bounties and issues licenses to kill to the best bounty hunters. The series follows one of these "Black Members", the female gunslinger Black Tiger.

Production

Osamu Akimoto said Black Tiger came from having always wanted to draw a Western, recalling that everyone loved Spaghetti Westerns when he was a kid.[3][4] Although he previously created one with the 2015 one-shot Allie, Shoot Your Gun, he said that there are many historical dramas nowadays, but no Westerns.[4] He also described Black Tiger as an homage to manga artist Mikiya Mochizuki, who died in 2016, and his series Wild 7, where a bad guy defeats a bad guy.[4]

Although it is Akimoto's first series following the completion of KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops (1976–2016), Black Tiger has a different style because it is serialized in a seinen manga magazine and he said it feels like a new start as a result.[3] He said his roots are in gekiga and described the characters of Black Tiger as being gekiga, which means they do not speak much.[4] The artist noted how even when he drew gun-shooting scenes in Mr. Clice, he did not show blood, but now he wants to draw more freely.[3] Despite stating that drawing women has always been a weakness of his, Akimoto said strong-minded girls are easy and interesting to draw, so he wanted to use one as the main character.[4]

Publication

Written and illustrated by Osamu Akimoto, Black Tiger started in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Grand Jump on December 21, 2016.[5][1][6] The manga was published on an irregular basis until November 2019, when it started a regular serialization in the magazine.[7] The series finished on February 1, 2023.[8][9] Shueisha collected its chapters in 11 tankōbon volumes; the first volume was released on November 2, 2017, and includes the 2015 one-shot Allie, Shoot Your Gun (アリィよ銃を撃て！, Arii yo Jū wo Ute!).[2] The last volume was released on April 18, 2023.[10]

Volumes
No. Release date ISBN
1 November 2, 2017[11]978-4-08-890802-1
2 December 19, 2018[12]978-4-08-891156-4
3 November 19, 2019[13]978-4-08-891392-6
4 April 17, 2020[14]978-4-08-891560-9
5 September 18, 2020[15]978-4-08-891661-3
6 January 19, 2021[16]978-4-08-891773-3
7 May 19, 2021[17]978-4-08-891878-5
8 October 19, 2021[18]978-4-08-892085-6
9 March 18, 2022[19]978-4-08-892257-7
10 September 16, 2022[20]978-4-08-892451-9
11 April 18, 2023[10]978-4-08-892671-1

References
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  3. 秋本治の映漫画への道〜情熱のガンアクション劇画〜. Grand Jump (in Japanese). Shueisha. Archived from the original on December 27, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  4. 「両さん休暇中に描きたいものを描きたい」 こち亀・秋本治氏ロングインタビュー. Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd. December 25, 2016. Archived from the original on December 27, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  5. Pineda, Rafael (October 7, 2016). "Osamu Akimoto's Black Tiger Manga Launches in December". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 9, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
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  7. Pineda, Rafael (November 6, 2019). "Osamu Akimoto's Black Tiger Manga Moves to Regular Serialization". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 27, 2021. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  8. Cayanan, Joanna (November 15, 2022). "Osamu Akimoto's Black Tiger Manga Ends". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 15, 2022. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  9. Akimoto, Osamu (February 1, 2023). 最終話 闘いの果て [Final Chapter: After the End of the War]. Grand Jump. Black Tiger (in Japanese). No. 5. Shueisha. p. 417. ASIN B0BSG1LMBF.
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