Summary
Realby Takehiko Inoue will release a new chapter soon. A few years after concludingSlam Dunk, Inoue started a new basketball manga titledReal. WhileSlam Dunkran inShonen Jump(One Piece,Sakamoto Days),Realis serialized inYoung Jump(Oshi no Ko,Kingdom) Shueisha’s biggest seinen magazine.
Realis a wheelchair basketball manga – one of the few sports manga focusing on a Paralympic sport. For many, it is even better thanSlam Dunk(the series are unrelated, but some suspect they are set in the same universe). Most of the characters are marginalized people who love to play basketball.Realhas been serialized since 1999, but the series has gone through a long hiatus from 2014 to 2019. Luckily, anew chapter will be released later this month.
Real Chapter 100 Release Date
AlthoughYoung Jumpis a weekly magazine, Inoue currently drops a new chapter every 3 months – this latest chapter (Chapter 99) came out in November 2024. While the series follows a regular schedule, it is also a sparse one, and fans are sometimes confused.
Chapter 100 will be released in the upcomingYoung Jumpissueset for June 04, 2025. Chapter 101 is expected to be out in May, but this is yet to be confirmed.
Chapters are also addedto theYanJanservice(Young Jump’s version of the Shonen Jump+ service) in Japanese – a few chapters can be read for free, but most need to be bought using coins.
VIZ Medialicenses the series in the US, but, unfortunately,VIZ does not publish individual chapters simultaneously with the Japanese release. WhileShonen Jumpgets chapters published globally at the same time, mostYoung Jumptitles are not published simultaneously, so fans need to wait for the next volume to keep up with the series.
Another Famous Manga By Inoue Is On Hiatus
Realis not the only series written by Takehiko Inoue that has gone through hiatuses. Another, more famous title that has been on a break for a long time isVagabond.
However, different fromReal,it seemsVagabondwon’t be returning anytime soon – thelatest chapter was released in 2015. Despite the hiatus, there arestudios interested in animatingVagabond.
Realvolumes are published in North America by VIZ Media. The latest volume released by VIZ is Volume 15 (16 volumes have been published in Japan).
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Real
Nomiya Tomomi, a high school drop-out who wants to devote his life to helping Natsumi, a girl he sentenced to a life of immobility after a tragic bike ride he invited her on, tries to change his life around, from a trouble-making delinquent into a reliable man. The problem is that both Natsumi and her sister don’t seem to care at all for Nomiya, rightfully blaming him for the accident. Plus, the only notable talent Nomiya possesses is a talent for basketball. Everything changes for him when he meets up with Togawa Kiyoharu, a wheelchair basketball player.
