Viz Media announced on Monday that the first chapter of Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru (Samurai 8: Hachimaruden), the new manga by Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto and manga artist Akira Ōkubo, launched on its Shonen Jump website on Sunday simultaneously with its debut in Japan.
The preview chapter for Samurai 8: The Tale of Hachimaru debuted in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump on April 27, and Viz Media released it simultaneously.
Shueisha had revealed at the Jump Festa ’19 event in December that the manga would launch in Weekly Shonen Jump this spring.
The series’ first 72-page chapter then launched in the magazine on Monday as the first new serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in the Reiwa era.