Viz Media to Publish Death Note 1-Shot, Guardian of the Witch Manga in English

Viz Media’s Shonen Jump service announced on Wednesday that it will release Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s new Death Note one-shot manga in English on Monday, and the first chapter of Asahi Sakano’s Guardian of the Witch (Majo no Moribito) manga on Sunday.

Asahi won an award for Weekly Shonen Jump’s “Treasure Rookie Manga Award” in 2014 when they were 19 years old, and they have previously published manga in Shonen Jump GIGA. The “Kagyō 30-Shūnen Kinen Obata Takeshi-ten Never Complete” (30th Work Anniversary Takeshi Obata Exhibition: Never Complete) exhibition that ran in Tokyo from July 13 to August 12 exhibited part of a manuscript for a new Death Note one-shot manga.

The Death Note one-shot will debut in the March issue of Shueisha’s Jump SQ. magazine on Monday.