This week’s 25th issue of Kodansha’s Morning magazine featured the final chapter of Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi’s Batman: Justice Buster manga.
“DC publishes the series in English and describes the story: “ion of the story:”
In Batman: Justice Buster, Gotham City has only recently come under Batman’s protection, but since the vigilante’s appearance, crime has become bolder and more destructive.
As Batman endeavors to confront these new threats, he creates a computer system, ROBIN, to assist him in analyzing and subduing the growing criminal activity, with the hope of eventually eradicating crime in Gotham.
Shimizu and Shimoguchi launched the series in December 2020 as part of a collaborative project between DC Comics and Kodansha’s Morning magazine. Kodansha released the third compiled book volume on August 23.
The duo is best known for creating the Linebarrels of Iron and Ultraman manga. They started Linebarrels of Iron in 2005 in Akita Shoten’s Champion RED magazine and concluded it in April 2014. Akita Shoten published 25 volumes of the series. The manga inspired a 24-episode anime in 2008, which FUNimation Entertainment released in North America in 2010.
Shimizu and Shimoguchi created the Ultraman series based on Tsuburaya Production’s famous live-action special-effects hero. The manga first appeared in Monthly Hero’s magazine in 2011 and later moved to Complex after Monthly Hero’s stopped publication. Hero’s Inc. released the manga’s 20th volume on February 5. Viz Media is responsible for publishing the manga in English. The manga also inspired a 3D CG anime by Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji Aramaki, and Production I.G, which premiered globally on Netflix in April 2019. The anime received a second season and will have a third and final season in May 2023.
The duo launched the “Getter Robo Devolution” (Getter Robo Devolution – Uchū Saigo no 3-bunker) manga in Akita Shoten’s Bessatsu Shōnen Champion magazine in December 2015. The manga concluded its serialization in June 2019. Seven Seas Entertainment is publishing the manga in English.
Shimizu and Shimoguchi released the Dragon Circus manga on the Complex manga site in July 2019. The manga concluded with its seventh chapter in February 2021, but a sequel is in the works.