Naoki Fujita wins with “Beat & Motion” manga
MILLION TAG, Shonen Jump+‘s “battle audition” show for discovering “the next star manga creator,” worldwide, announced on Friday that the winner is Naoki Fujita for his “Beat & Motion” manga. As a prize, Fujita’s work will become an anime adaptation that will stream globally and exclusively on Netflix. Fujita has also won 5 million yen (about US$45,000), the opportunity to serialize his manga on Shonen Jump+, and a compiled book volume of his manga. Fujita’s partnered manga editor from Shueisha was Shihei Rin (editor of Chainsaw Man and SPY x FAMILY).
The eight-episode program debuted on the official YouTube channel for Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on July 2. The program follows six teams, each with a prospective manga creator and a Shueisha manga editor, as they compete in four challenges. (One of the teams has…
