Black Cat Runs 52 Free Chapters On Shonen Jump+ Until November 5
A free run of half the series alongside the author's own account of writing it at 20 gives readers the origin story and the work itself at the same time, which is the kind of pairing a publisher can use to bring an older title back into circulation.
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Shonen Jump+ is offering 52 chapters of Kentaro Yabuki's Black Cat for free until November 5. The action manga ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2000 to 2004, following Train Heartnet, an assassin known as Black Cat who leaves the organization Chronos and works as a sweeper with his partner Sven until a figure from his past reappears. Yabuki said on X that he began preparing the series in his late teens and serialized it from age 20.
The free run covers 52 chapters and closes on November 5. Black Cat centers on Train Heartnet, once feared as the assassin Black Cat, who leaves the secret organization Chronos and works as a sweeper with his partner Sven, catching criminals, until a former partner from his assassin days returns and pushes him to settle an old grudge.
Yabuki's post adds a detail the chapters themselves cannot: he started preparing the series in the latter half of his teens and began serializing at 20, before he had a grasp of manga methodology, and shaped the feeling "I like this kind of thing!" into the work. The manga also aired as a GONZO TV anime from October 2005 to March 2006 and was adapted into games for PS2 and Nintendo DS.
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