Mitama Security: Spirit Busters | |
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tankōbon volume cover, featuring Rena Haze and Joh Mitama | |
ミタマセキュ霊ティ (Mitama Sekyureti) | |
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Genre | Action, comedy, supernatural [1] [2] |
Manga | |
Written by | Tsurun Hatomune |
Published by | Shueisha |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Jump Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | September 2, 2019 – August 11, 2020 |
Volumes | 5 |
Mitama Security: Spirit Busters ( Japanese: ミタマセキュ霊ティ, Hepburn: Mitama Sekyureti) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsurun Hatomune. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from September 2019 to August 2020, and collected into five tankōbon volumes. Viz Media licensed the series for a digital-only English release in North America.
Rena Haze is a high school student in Tokyo who is able to see spirits and has a line of about 100 following her around everywhere she goes. One day, she runs into Joh Mitama, an agent of Secureity (セキュ霊ティ, rei means "ghost" or "spirit" in Japanese), a government-recognized organization whose job it is to exorcise spirits using psychic energy. Mitama decides to move in next door to Rena and vows to protect her from spirits, but it turns out he is afraid of ghosts.
According to Junichi Tamada, the editor of the manga who has worked with Tsurun Hatomune since 2011, Mitama Security: Spirit Busters was influenced by the comedy duo Waraimeshi and their double- boke style of manzai. [1] Hatomune said he was originally going to title the series Atchi ni Itte ku Rei (あっちに行ってく霊), but is grateful that Tamada stopped him. [1]
Mitama Security: Spirit Busters is written and illustrated by Tsurun Hatomune. It started in the 2019 40th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump, published on September 2, 2019. [3] [2] The series finished in the 2020 combined 36th-37th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, published on August 11, 2020. [4] A spinoff chapter was published on Shōnen Jump+ on August 31, 2020. [4] Shueisha has compiled its chapters into five individual tankōbon volumes, released from February 4 to October 2, 2020. [5] [6]
Both Shueisha and Viz Media began releasing the series in English digitally the same day it began in Japan, the former on its Manga Plus website and application. [2] Viz later released the collected volumes digitally, releasing all five volumes on December 28, 2021. [7] [8]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN | ||
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1 | February 4, 2020 [5] | 978-4-08-882172-6 | December 28, 2021 [8] | 978-1-9747-1719-4 | ||
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2 | March 4, 2020 [9] | 978-4-08-882226-6 | December 28, 2021 [10] | 978-1-9747-3096-4 | ||
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3 | June 4, 2020 [11] | 978-4-08-882326-3 | December 28, 2021 [12] | 978-1-9747-3097-1 | ||
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4 | August 4, 2020 [13] | 978-4-08-882397-3 | December 28, 2021 [14] | 978-1-9747-3098-8 | ||
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5 | October 2, 2020 [6] | 978-4-08-882469-7 | December 28, 2021 [15] | 978-1-9747-3099-5 | ||
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In 2020, Mitama Security: Spirit Busters was nominated for the 6th Next Manga Awards and placed 13th out of the 50 nominees with 11,686 votes. [16] [17] [18] Jacob Buchalter of Comic Book Resources praised the series for great visual gags and "pretty good" art, but said the humor is stuff that has been seen before and "there's only so many times a guy can get scared of ghosts." [19] Real Sound's Reiichi Narima described Mitama Security as an occult gag comedy, where all of the characters get more interesting as the series goes on. [20]
Mitama Security: Spirit Busters | |
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tankōbon volume cover, featuring Rena Haze and Joh Mitama | |
ミタマセキュ霊ティ (Mitama Sekyureti) | |
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Genre | Action, comedy, supernatural [1] [2] |
Manga | |
Written by | Tsurun Hatomune |
Published by | Shueisha |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Jump Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | September 2, 2019 – August 11, 2020 |
Volumes | 5 |
Mitama Security: Spirit Busters ( Japanese: ミタマセキュ霊ティ, Hepburn: Mitama Sekyureti) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsurun Hatomune. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from September 2019 to August 2020, and collected into five tankōbon volumes. Viz Media licensed the series for a digital-only English release in North America.
Rena Haze is a high school student in Tokyo who is able to see spirits and has a line of about 100 following her around everywhere she goes. One day, she runs into Joh Mitama, an agent of Secureity (セキュ霊ティ, rei means "ghost" or "spirit" in Japanese), a government-recognized organization whose job it is to exorcise spirits using psychic energy. Mitama decides to move in next door to Rena and vows to protect her from spirits, but it turns out he is afraid of ghosts.
According to Junichi Tamada, the editor of the manga who has worked with Tsurun Hatomune since 2011, Mitama Security: Spirit Busters was influenced by the comedy duo Waraimeshi and their double- boke style of manzai. [1] Hatomune said he was originally going to title the series Atchi ni Itte ku Rei (あっちに行ってく霊), but is grateful that Tamada stopped him. [1]
Mitama Security: Spirit Busters is written and illustrated by Tsurun Hatomune. It started in the 2019 40th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump, published on September 2, 2019. [3] [2] The series finished in the 2020 combined 36th-37th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump, published on August 11, 2020. [4] A spinoff chapter was published on Shōnen Jump+ on August 31, 2020. [4] Shueisha has compiled its chapters into five individual tankōbon volumes, released from February 4 to October 2, 2020. [5] [6]
Both Shueisha and Viz Media began releasing the series in English digitally the same day it began in Japan, the former on its Manga Plus website and application. [2] Viz later released the collected volumes digitally, releasing all five volumes on December 28, 2021. [7] [8]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN | ||
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1 | February 4, 2020 [5] | 978-4-08-882172-6 | December 28, 2021 [8] | 978-1-9747-1719-4 | ||
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2 | March 4, 2020 [9] | 978-4-08-882226-6 | December 28, 2021 [10] | 978-1-9747-3096-4 | ||
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3 | June 4, 2020 [11] | 978-4-08-882326-3 | December 28, 2021 [12] | 978-1-9747-3097-1 | ||
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4 | August 4, 2020 [13] | 978-4-08-882397-3 | December 28, 2021 [14] | 978-1-9747-3098-8 | ||
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5 | October 2, 2020 [6] | 978-4-08-882469-7 | December 28, 2021 [15] | 978-1-9747-3099-5 | ||
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In 2020, Mitama Security: Spirit Busters was nominated for the 6th Next Manga Awards and placed 13th out of the 50 nominees with 11,686 votes. [16] [17] [18] Jacob Buchalter of Comic Book Resources praised the series for great visual gags and "pretty good" art, but said the humor is stuff that has been seen before and "there's only so many times a guy can get scared of ghosts." [19] Real Sound's Reiichi Narima described Mitama Security as an occult gag comedy, where all of the characters get more interesting as the series goes on. [20]