The manga has also inspired several stage plays, and a new stage play will run from September 9-19 at Tokyo’s AiiA 2.5 Theater Tokyo, and from September 23-25 at Osaka’s Sankei Hall Breeze.
The manga is also inspiring a new one-hour television anime special that will air on Fuji TV on September 18.
The manga inspired a 1996-2004 television anime adaptation and two anime compilation films in 1999 and 2003.
The manga series has approximately 150 million copies in print as of June when the 199th volume shipped.