Earning a spot on Weekly Shonen Jump is never easy. there most famous manga magazine in the world welcomes many series, but many of them are canceled within a few weeks. So whoever manages to stay makes an important name for themselves and also attracts the interest of other authors as to how it happened Akane Banashi.
Akane Banashi was published in Weekly Shonen Jump in February 2022 and was written by Yuki Suenaga and drawn by Takamasa Moue. Neither have a long and profitable serialization behind them, so this could be their first success. At the moment, popularity polls are paying off for Akane and the other characters in the series, and the first volume to also be released in Japan. caught the attention of Eiichiro Oda, the author of ONE PIECE.
but what exactly Akane Banashi is talking about? Well, it focuses on an extremely Japanese art: rakugo. Rakugo is a Japanese theater genre that also references ancient oral traditions and is primarily a comic monologue in which the rakugo-ka kneels in front of the audience and has only two items, a fan and a piece of cloth, with which to tell a story Story.
Shinta is an elder who was kidnapped by the world of rakugo but never managed to pass the Shin’uchi exam. His daughter Akane was just as enchanted by this world as her father and now it’s up to her to express herself through this particular way of making theatre.
If you want to be enchanted by the world of rakugo, don’t miss the Showa genroku rakugo shinju review.
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