Viz Media confirmed with ANN on Tuesday that it will release the first volume of Minoji Kurata’s Assassin’s Creed: Blade of Shao Jun manga, based on Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed game series, on February 16, 2021.
The manga centers on Shao Jun, the protagonist of the Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China game, and the last Assassin in China.
The Assassin’s Creed: Embers short film previously showed Shao Jun meeting the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Italy.
Takashi Yano and Kendi Oiwa previously drew another manga based on the series titled Assassin’s Creed: Awakening (Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag -Kakusei-), an adaptation of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag.