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Born 1977In the Jump 2024–2025
和久井健
Ken Wakui is best known as the creator of Tokyo Revengers, one of the best-selling manga of the 2020s with over 70 million copies in circulation.
His Weekly Shōnen Jump debut was Astro Royale (Negai no Astro), a superpowered yakuza battle series that ran for about a year, from April 2024 to April 2025. Prior to WSJ, Wakui built his career in seinen and youth gang manga (Shinjuku Swan, Tokyo Revengers in Weekly Shōnen Magazine).
和久井健 Born 1977
From the first chapter to the last
2024–2025Writer & Artist
A meteor awakens superpowers across Japan amid a fight to lead an Asakusa gang. From the creator of Tokyo Revengers.
ActionSupernaturalGang Warfare
Astro Royale debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump No. 20 · 2024, on sale April 15, 2024. That same issue also carried My Hero Academia, Me and Roboco and Sakamoto Days. Its last chapter in the magazine, number 50, ran in No. 21 · 2025 (April 21, 2025), after 1 year of serialization.
Dates are the day each issue went on sale in Japan. Open one to see the full issue: if it matches your birthday, that is your Jump.
