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Samurai Harem: Asu no Yoichi Manga Gets New 1-Shot
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
This year's ninth issue of Akita Shoten's Young Champion Retsu magazine published a new one-shot manga by Yuu Minamoto for her Samurai Harem: Asu no Yoichi manga on Tuesday. The one-shot is titled "Asu no Yoichi! 2026 ~Egao no Riyū~," and it celebrates 20 years since the manga launched.
The manga centers on the titular Yoichi, a young swordsman who has trained alone for a long time in the mountains. When he turns 17, he is ordered by his father to continue training under the Ikaruga family to further hone his skills. Going to town, he finds the Ikaruga dojo run by the family's four beautiful sisters.
Minamoto launched the manga in Akita Shoten's Monthly Shōnen Champion magazine in May 2006 and ended it in February 2011. Akita Shoten published 15 compiled book volumes for the manga. Tokyopop published eight volumes of the the manga in North America. The manga inspired a television anime adaptation in 2009. Section23 Films/Sentai Filmworks released the anime under the title Samurai Harem.
Minamoto and Bamboo Blade writer Masahiro Totsuka launched their Haru Polish manga about a high-school girl in a swordfighting club in Akita Shoten's Monthly Shōnen Champion magazine in 2011, and ended it in November 2012.
Minamoto ended the Haken no Ninja Akabane (Temp Ninja Akabane) manga on Akita Shoten's Manga Cross website in March 2023. Minamoto launched the manga in Manga Cross in July 2019. Akita Shoten published the manga's fourth and final volume in June 2023.
Minamoto ended the Kasen Kōshu Yawa: Sono Reijin, Kōkyū no Yami o Kiru (The Night Tale of Princess Kasen: That Beauty, Cuts Through the Darkness of the Palace) manga in February 2025. Minamoto debuted the manga in 2019, based on author Tōko Kisaki and illustrator Roro Kamijō's light novel series, which began in 2018. Akita Publishing shipped the sixth volume shipped in April 2024.
Minamoto's latest manga is Watashi-tachi wa Kakechigatteiru (We're at Odds with Each Other), which launched in Akita Shoten's Champion Cross manga platform in October 2024, and is ongoing. Akita Shoten published the manga's third volume on May 8.
Sources: Young Champion Retsu's website, Comic Natalie
