Hikaru Nakamura's Black Night Parade Manga Ends, Teases Major Announcement on December 18
Seven Seas Entertainment publishes the manga in English digitally and in print. The company describes the story:
Hino Miharu will be spending this Christmas just like the last: alone and working a dead-end job. All he wants is good employment, but when he meets a Santa Claus dressed in clothes as black as coal, he has no idea he's encountered the real deal...sort of. The Santa Claus dressed in red makes Christmas happen for good children everywhere, but his darker counterpart handles the holiday for the bad kids. As a name on the naughty list, Miharu is dashed away to work for the shadowy Santa. The pay and benefits are great, and his co-worker is cute–but will this end up being the dream job he's wished for, or a nightmare of a Christmas?!
Nakamura launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump in November 2016. Shueisha published the manga's first compiled book volume in December 2016, and will publish the 12th and final volume on December 17. The manga has also run in other venues, including Digital Margaret, Shonen Jump+, Cinra.net, LINE Manga, pixiv Comic, Nico Nico Seiga, and more. The manga started serialization in Ultra Jump in 2019.
The manga inspired a live-action film adaptation that opened in Japan in December 2022.
Nakamura is also currently drawing the Saint Young Men manga series, which started in 2006. The story follows the everyday lives of Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, who are roommates living in an apartment in Tokyo. A two-volume original anime DVD project produced by A-1 Pictures shipped in 2012 and 2013, and the manga also inspired an animated film in 2013. The manga has since inspired a live-action adaptation.
Nakamura's previous work includes Arakawa Under the Bridge, which ran from December 2004 to July 2015. The manga series has spanned 14 volumes and inspired two television anime series, a live-action television series, and a live-action film. Vertical licensed the manga, and is releasing it in omnibus volumes.
Nakamura also illustrated NisiOisin's Juni Taisen: Zodiac War novel. Viz Media released the novel in October 2017, and it inspired a television anime. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and Funimation streamed a dub. The book received a sequel in December 2017.
Sources: Ultra Jump November issue, Hikaru Nakamura's X/Twitter account
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