Bungo (manga)

Bungo
First tankōbon volume cover
GenreSports[1]
Manga
Written byYūji Ninomiya
Published byShueisha
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
MagazineWeekly Young Jump
Original runDecember 18, 2014 – December 26, 2024
Volumes41
Manga
Bungo: Unreal
Written byYūji Ninomiya
Published byShueisha
ImprintYoung Jump Comics
MagazineWeekly Young Jump
Original runOctober 9, 2025 – present
Volumes1

Bungo (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese baseball-themed manga series written and illustrated by Yūji Ninomiya. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from December 2014 to December 2024, with its chapters collected in 41 tankōbon volumes. A second series, Bungo: Unreal, started in October 2025.

Synopsis

In a remote town in Shizuoka Prefecture, where soccer is the ingrained popular sport, the young boy Bungo Ishihama discovers the joy of baseball after playing catch with his father. However, because there is no Little League in his area, he is forced to practice by throwing against a wall at home.

Three years after he began wall practice, as he was about to enter middle school, he was pitching at a local baseball field when he was challenged by Yukio Noda, a prodigy hitter the same age as him, and a member of Japan's national youth baseball team. Though Bungo threw a fastball that was unbelievable for an elementary school student, Yukio easily hit a home run on the third pitch.

Approximately two weeks later, Bungo reunites with Yukio at the same middle school and joins the baseball team, to which Yukio belongs, for the sake of challenging him again. Aiming for the top of middle school baseball, they engage in fierce battles. He is soon noticed by Hiroto Mizushima, a third-year student who is just recovering from an injury, and Bungo is now challenged to a match against him. However, midway through the match, Bungo's older sister, Kaori Ishihama, appears and reveals that Bungo, who has always thrown right-handed, is actually left-handed. Despite his poor pitching form, his very first left-handed pitch displays a velocity that cannot be compared to his right-handed throw.

As time passes, Bungo and Yukio move on to high school, setting their sights on achieving "five consecutive Koshien championships", once again striving for the top.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Yūji Ninomiya, Bungo was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from December 18, 2014,[2] to December 26, 2024.[3] Shueisha collected its chapters in 41 tankōbon volumes, released from July 17, 2015, to April 17, 2025.[4][5]

A sequel, Bungo: Unreal, started in Weekly Young Jump on October 9, 2025.[3][6] Shueisha is simultaneously publishing the manga digitally on its Manga Plus platform.[7] Shueisha released its first volume on March 18, 2026.[8]

Volumes

Bungo

No. Release date ISBN
1July 17, 2015[9]978-4-08-890189-3
2August 19, 2015[10]978-4-08-890190-9
3October 19, 2015[11]978-4-08-890306-4
4February 19, 2016[12]978-4-08-890359-0
5May 19, 2016[13]978-4-08-890412-2
6August 19, 2016[14]978-4-08-890541-9
7December 19, 2016[15]978-4-08-890542-6
8December 19, 2016[15]978-4-08-890585-3
9March 17, 2017[16]978-4-08-890642-3
10June 19, 2017[17]978-4-08-890684-3
11September 19, 2017[18]978-4-08-890741-3
12December 19, 2017[19]978-4-08-890822-9
13March 19, 2018[20]978-4-08-890878-6
14June 19, 2018[21]978-4-08-891047-5
15September 19, 2018[22]978-4-08-891097-0
16December 19, 2018[23]978-4-08-891097-0
17March 19, 2019[24]978-4-08-891227-1
18June 19, 2019[25]978-4-08-891316-2
19August 19, 2019[26]978-4-08-891345-2
20November 19, 2019[27]978-4-08-891432-9
21February 19, 2020[28]978-4-08-891478-7
22March 19, 2020[29]978-4-08-891541-8
23June 19, 2020[30]978-4-08-891583-8
24September 18, 2020[31]978-4-08-891644-6
25December 18, 2020[32]978-4-08-891734-4
26March 18, 2021[33]978-4-08-891815-0
27June 18, 2021[34]978-4-08-892026-9
28August 18, 2021[35]978-4-08-892049-8
29November 19, 2021[36]978-4-08-892134-1
30March 18, 2022[37]978-4-08-892212-6
31June 17, 2022[38]978-4-08-892295-9
32August 19, 2022[39]978-4-08-892457-1
33November 17, 2022[40]978-4-08-892492-2
34March 17, 2023[41]978-4-08-892626-1
35June 19, 2023[42]978-4-08-892687-2
36August 18, 2023[43]978-4-08-892788-6
37December 19, 2023[44]978-4-08-893042-8
38March 18, 2024[45]978-4-08-893167-8
39August 19, 2024[46]978-4-08-893354-2
40December 18, 2024[47]978-4-08-893475-4
41April 17, 2025[5]978-4-08-893615-4

Bungo: Unreal

No. Release date ISBN
1March 18, 2026[8]978-4-08-894088-5

Reception

By June 2021, the manga had over 3.5 million copies in circulation.[48] By December 2024, it had over 7 million copies in circulation.[49]

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