Director Takashi Miike oversaw the Ichi the Killer film that Media Blasters released in America, and he also made a voice cameo in the Ichi The Killer: Episode 0 anime that Central Park Media’s U.S. Manga Corps distributed.
This year’s 23rd issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine revealed on Tuesday that Hideo Yamamoto is putting his Hikari-Man manga on hiatus until summer to do research for the manga.
Yamamoto launched the manga in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in 2014.
The manga resumed in May 2018 after a two-year hiatus since April 2016.