Kumeta (Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, Joshiraku) published a four-page introduction to the manga in Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Magazine in November 2015, and then published the first full chapter in the same magazine in December 2015.
Kumeta ended his Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei manga in May 2012.
The magazine published a short, uncredited prologue chapter for the manga in the previous issue on October 20.
This year’s 48th issue of Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine debuted a new manga titled Shibuya Near Family by creator Kōji Kumeta on Wednesday.