Shogakukan's Weekly
Big Comic Spirits magazine announced that the Fūto Tantei manga
will go on hiatus, although it has already been confirmed that it will resume
publication in autumn 2025 with a new narrative arc. It is not
the first time that this has happened, since the work had a break in February
and returned in April of this year.
A manga
in its final stage
In January
2024, it was revealed that the series had entered its "last
stage", and the 17th compilation volume announced that the manga was
heading towards its final arc. Currently, Shogakukan published volume 18 on
March 28, reinforcing readers' expectation for the conclusion of this
story.
Origin
and production of the work
Fūto
Tantei is the
direct sequel to 2009's Kamen Rider W. The script is in charge
of Riku Sanjō, who was a key writer on the original series,
while Masaki Satou (Love Theory) is in charge of the
art.
Oversight
falls to Toei producer Hideaki Tsukada, and the creature design was
done by Katsuya Terada (Blood: The Last Vampire). The
story is still set in Fūto City, with protagonists Shotaro
Hidari and Philip facing new mysteries and threats.
In the
windy city of Fūto, Shotaro and Philip keep the peace as
protectors, but strange events continue to disturb the tranquility. The
appearance of Tokime, a mysterious young woman, marks the beginning
of a new fight against a shadow that threatens the entire city.
Multimedia
expansion and legacy
The manga
debuted in Weekly Big Comic Spirits in August 2017 and
has since inspired multiple adaptations. The FUUTO PI anime
premiered in August 2022 as part of the 50th
anniversary of the Kamen Rider franchise, available on Crunchyroll internationally.
The
film Fūto Tantei: Kamen Rider Skull no Shōzō was also released
in November 2023 and a stage adaptation titled Fūto Tantei The STAGE,
presented in Tokyo and Osaka between December 2022 and January 2023.
The Kamen
Rider W series aired in Japan from September 2009 to August
2010, being the eleventh installment of the Heisei era. The protagonists
were played by Renn Kiriyama as Shotaro Hidari and Masaki
Suda as Philip, consolidating itself as one of the most beloved
productions of the franchise.
