Shūjin Riku

Shūjin Riku
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Riku Kurita
囚人リク
GenrePrison[1]
Manga
Written byShinobu Seguchi
Published byAkita Shoten
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Champion
DemographicShōnen
Original runFebruary 10, 2011 – February 15, 2018
Volumes38
Manga
Boss Renoma: Shūjin Riku Gaiden
Written byShinobu Seguchi
Published byAkita Shoten
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Champion
DemographicShōnen
Original runAugust 30, 2018 – January 10, 2019
Volumes2

Shūjin Riku (囚人リク) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinobu Seguchi. It was serialized in Akita Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion from February 2011 to February 2018, with its chapters collected in 38 tankōbon volumes. The story follows Riku Kurita, a 13-year-old boy from the slums, witnesses the assassination of an old police officer wanting to denounce the Tokyo police chief's countless trafficking activities. The latter accuses Riku of the murder and sends him to a prison on an island isolated from the rest of the country, the Paradise Island Penitentiary.

Plot

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One night, a meteorite crashed into the city of Tokyo. Ten years later, the destroyed Tokyo was undergoing reconstruction, but the area around the meteorite crater was left behind and turned into a slum area with extremely poor public safety. As a result, the megacity is cut in two, the affected area is a slum isolated from the rest of the country, and the rest of the city is reserved for rich people of the society. The slums were isolated by walls, and security was maintained even more strictly than in the outside. Riku Kurita, a boy orphaned by the meteorite crash, lives his days in the slums under the watchful eye of Goro Fujimoto, a middle-aged police officer whom he adores as his uncle. However, on July 8, in the 10th area of the slums, Fujimoto was killed while trying to expose the evil deeds of Eishu Kidoin, the police inspector general. Riku, who was present at the scene, was charged with murdering Fujimoto, he was imprisoned in Paradise Island Penitentiary. In order to defeat Kidouin and avenge his uncle's death, Riku decides to escape from prison with his friends. After much effort, he gathers his friends and manages to escape from the prison of the Island, but the group falls into Kidoin's hands and is sent to Kidoin's illegal facility, Hell Island on Jigokujima, where huge mine shafts were dug underground, and opium was cultivated and manufactured above ground. The group attempts to escape again under harsh conditions, with most of the prisoners being sent to die within a month.

Publication

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Shūjin Riku, written and illustrated by Shinobu Seguchi, was serialized in Akita Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion from February 10, 2011,[2] to February 15, 2018.[3] Akita Shoten collected its chapters in thirty-eight tankōbon volumes, released from June 8, 2011,[4] to April 6, 2018.[5]

A gaiden story, titled Boss Renoma: Shūjin Riku Gaiden (ボスレノマ～「囚人リク」外伝～, Bosu Renoma Shūjin Riku Gaiden), was serialized in the same magazine from August 30, 2018,[6] to January 10, 2019.[7] Akita Shoten collected its chapters in two volumes, released on January 8 and March 8, 2019.[8][9]

References

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  1. ^ 6月11日は凶悪犯フランク・モリスがアルカトラズ連邦刑務所から脱獄した日 『囚人リク』を読もう！【きょうのマンガ】. Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (in Japanese). Takarajimasha. June 11, 2015. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  2. ^ 週チャン新連載は最果ての刑務所が舞台の「囚人リク」. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 10, 2011. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  3. ^ 瀬口忍が描く刑務所脱獄記「囚人リク」7年の連載に幕、単行本は2カ月連続刊行. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 15, 2018. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  4. ^ 【6月8日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. June 8, 2011. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  5. ^ 【4月6日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. April 6, 2018. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  6. ^ 瀬口忍「囚人リク」の外伝が週チャンで開幕、リクの盟友・レノマの物語. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. August 30, 2018. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  7. ^ 週刊少年チャンピオン 2019年新年No.6 (in Japanese). Akita Shoten. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  8. ^ 瀬口忍「囚人リク」外伝1巻、リクの盟友・レノマが刑務所の底辺から這い上がる. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. January 8, 2019. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  9. ^ 【3月8日付】本日発売の単行本リスト. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. March 8, 2019. Archived from the original on November 12, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2022.

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