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Nijitte Monogatari

Japanese manga series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ11487049 ↗
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Nijitte Monogatari (Japanese: 弐十手物語) is a Japanese manga series written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Satomi Kōe. It was published by Shogakukan since 1978 on Weekly Post and lasted until 2003. It was followed by two sequels, Shin Nijitte Monogatari and Shin Nijitte Monogatari Tsurujirō. It is one of the manga series with most volumes, with 110 volumes.

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The public source identifies “Nijitte Monogatari” as japanese manga series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nijitte, Monogatari and Japanese.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nijitte, Monogatari and Japanese providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Nijitte Monogatari” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.