This year’s fifth issue of Akita Shoten’s Young Champion Retsu magazine revealed on Tuesday that Rintaro Koike and Masayuki Taguchi’s Black Joke manga is approaching its climax in the magazine’s next issue on May 17.
Koike and Taguchi launched the manga in Akita Shoten’s Young Champion magazine in 2008, and the series moved to Young Champion Retsu in 2011.
The manga ran in Young Champion from 2000 to 2006, and Tokyopop published the whole manga in English.
The manga is set on the fictional Neon Island in Tokyo Bay, a place where gambling and prostitution has been legalized.