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Atsushi Kaneko Launches New MISH/MASH Manga
posted on by Anita Tai
The combined 42nd and 43rd issue of Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine announced on Monday that Atsushi Kaneko will launch a new series titled MISH/MASH in the next issue on September 28.
The magazine teases the series with the tagline: "In the untrustworthy age of social media, AI, and fake news, what do you believe?"
Kaneko ended the EVOL manga with the tenth volume in November 2025. Kaneko launched the manga in Kadokawa's Comic Beam magazine in August 2020. The manga inspired a live-action series that premiered in November 2023.
Digital Manga Publishing released two of six volumes of Kaneko's earlier manga Bambi and her Pink Gun in English in 2005. Kaneko's SOIL manga inspired a live-action television series in 2010. SOIL and Kaneko's Wet Moon were previously nominated for Best Crime Comic at France's Angoulême International Comics Festival.
The American Library Association's (ALA) Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) gave Honors in the "Series" category of its 2025 Outstanding Comics Award for Adults to Fantagraphics and Mangasplaining Extra's (MSX) releases of all three volumes for Atsushi Kaneko's Search and Destroy manga in January.
Kaneko launched the Search and Destroy manga, based on Osamu Tezuka's Dororo manga, in Micro Magazine Publishing Company's TezuComi magazine in October 2018, and ended it after 18 chapters. Mangasplaining began serializing the manga in the Mangasplaining Extra (MSX) newsletter in August 2023. Fantagraphics and Mangasplaining Extra published the manga in print.
Source: Big Comic Spirits issue 42/43
