Great shounen artists often become great seinen artists too throughout the span of their career. After a run of serializations in Weekly Shonen Jump in the 1990s and early 2000s- most notably Hareluya II Boy– mangaka Umezawa Haruto 梅澤春人 graduated to the seinen sphere, serializing his wish-fulfillment street racing series Countach in Young Jump in 2004. After concluding Countach in late 2012 after a successful 28 volumes, Umezawa’s next series the following year, Beast Wheeler, would […]
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