Renowned author Takashi Sano, known for works such as Back When You Called Us Devils, has released a new manga titled Bakudan (translated as "Bomb"). The announcement was made this Thursday through the official X account of Kodansha's Comic Days platform.
The series
debuted this Friday, May 24, with the publication of its first two chapters,
offering readers an intense dose of suspense from the start.
A
tension-filled explosion in Tokyo
Bakudan
opens with a seemingly harmless middle-aged man arrested for a minor
altercation and taken to the Nogata police station in Tokyo. During the
interrogation, he makes a seemingly meaningless prediction: "There will be
an explosion in Akihabara at 10:00."
What seemed
like a rambling turns out to be true, and when the explosion rocks the shopping
district, a chain of events is triggered that keeps the police on edge. With
new warnings of more explosions, a race against time begins to stop the
mysterious man and prevent a greater tragedy.
A
long-awaited return after his previous works
Takashi
Sano is no stranger to the psychological thriller genre. In October 2021, he
launched Kimi ga Kemono ni Naru Mae ni (Before You Turn into a Beast) in Weekly
Young Magazine, ending in March 2023. Its eighth and final volume was published
in May of the same year.
He is also
remembered for Kimi ga Bokura wo Akuma to Yonda Koro (Back When You Called Us
Devils), a work that began in 2017 on the Magazine Pocket app and concluded
with 14 volumes in October 2020. This series was translated into English by
Kodansha USA Publishing.
Now
available on Comic Days
Interested
readers can now enjoy Bakudan on Kodansha's Comic Days digital platform. With
its unmistakable style and a plot that promises mounting tension, Sano's new
work aims to become another benchmark in modern Japanese thrillers.
