The ninth compiled book volume of Yūji Takemura’s manga adaptation of Shōtarō Ikenami’s Shikakenin Fujieda Baian novels revealed on July 13 that the manga will end with its 10th volume, which will ship in early spring 2022.
From 1972 until his death in 1990, Ikenami published seven novels in his Shikakenin Fujieda Baian series, remaining unfinished due to Ikenami’s passing.
The original novels, set during the historic Edo period, center on the titular Fujieda Baian, a medicine man and doctor by day, but ruthless killer for hire by night.
Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Tsuki-gatari manga with authors Nobuhiko Horie and Tetsuo Hara inspired a television anime adaptation in 2013.