Beast Children: Research Notes
Added 2023-05-31 21:59:01 +0000 UTCMaxyBee
Six word summary: ‘No side’ for a decent debut
Author - Kento Terasaka (here depicted as a rugby ball, in a striped rugby top)
- Prior works:
RINGO (2016, 4 chapter, Jump GIGA)<— oh, would you believe it? More rugby! Mini-series like this are kind of seasoning works for new creators, and often lead to a serial that’s VERY similar. - Later works:
I’m Arm (2020, one-shot, Jump GIGA)It’s about arm wrestling
Gain (2022, one-shot, Weekly Shonen Jump)It’s about golf. Has a vomic promoting it! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TlcL_dLdHlE - Notable people they were an assistant for:
Tadatoshi Fujimaki (Kuroko’s Basketball, Robot x Laserbeam)As mentioned in press coverage at the time such as oricon https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2136282/full/?utm_source=Twitter - Notable people they had as assistants:Unknown. No assistant credits in the volumes.
- The author played the lock position in school rugby.
Publishing
- Series it replaced:Teenage Renaissance! David by Yushin Kuroki
- Series that replaced it:Agravity Boys by Atsushi Nakamura
- Series from the same serialisation round:Samurai 8 by Masashi Kishimoto & Akira Okubo
Double Taisei by Kentaro Fukuda
Tokyo Shinobi Squad by Yuki Tanaka, Kento Matsuura - Cover appearancesWeekly Shonen Jump 29/2019 (DEBUT)
Weekly Shonen Jump 36-37/2019 (group cover, pirate theme) - Purchasing options:English: Vol.1, Vol.2, Vol.3 (all Viz links, with supporting digital platforms included)
Japanese: Bookwalker Japan
Manga Itself
- This is one of like… three rugby comics Weekly Shonen Jump has ever had. They are:Scrum (1982, 1 vol) by Koji Koseki
No Side (1987, 2 vols) by Taku Chiba
Beast Children (2019, 3 vols) by Kento Terasaka - Logically this means we can one day look forward to a FOURTH rugby manga that lasts four volumes one day. Pattern recognition!
- Would this have gotten serialised without the influence of the Rugby World Cup? You decide!
- Beast Children’s failure, and lack of any other viable candidates, meant that when Haikyu!! ended the following year we had a Weekly Shonen Jump without any sports series for what I think was the first time EVER, in just over 50 years of publication. They blew the streak!
- Volume extra pages includeCharacter profiles
Equipment explanations
Technique explanations
Rules explanations
Small bonus comics
Little personal messages and anecdotes from the author - Rugby’s a good sport, watch it. Play it, even.