This year’s May issue of Shueisha’s Jump SQ. magazine is announcing on April 4 that Nobuhiro Watsuki’s new Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc (Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan: Hokkaido-hen) manga will launch this summer.
Watsuki first launched his Rurouni Kenshin manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1994.
Watsuki and his wife Kaoru Kurosaki published a two-chapter prologue titled “Rurouni Kenshin Hokkaido-hen Jomaku: Ashitarō Zenka Ari” for the manga in the Jump SQ. magazine in November and December.
Viz Media’s digital Weekly Shonen Jump manga magazine published the prequel in English in December.