Cyberpunk Edgerunners Creator Crafts New Manga And It’s Already Picked Up An Impressive Achievement

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Creator Rafal Jaki, also writer of manga ‘NoName’, becomes the first non-Japanese team to be serialized in Shonen Jump.
NoName, a dark action mystery set in Northern Europe, wins the first-ever Gold Award for Manga Plus Creators and will be available for non-Japanese speakers on the Shonen Jump Plus app next month.

Hitting Netflix in September 2022, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was among the highest-rated ever on the streaming platform, cementing the anime series and prequel spin-off of Cyberpunk 2077 in worldwide success. Not only that, but the ten-episode tale of a street kid surviving in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future scored a well-deserved 100 percent Rotten Tomato score, which isn’t usually the easiest victory to seal.

If you happen to be a fan of the hit Netflix show, its creator, Rafal Jaki, is also the writer of the manga ‘NoName’, and the good news is that it’s been picked up for serialization via Shonen Jump Plus.

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Rafal Jaki worked as a writer on projects that include Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher Ronin before jumping into the world of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners as its showrunner. Along with the artistic talents of Machine Gamu who will be illustrating the manga, Jaki has already made a huge achievement by becoming the first non-Japanese team to be serialized in Shonen Jump which will be available on the app on July 31st, 2024. “As far as I can tell we are the first non-Japanese team that managed to do that!” Jaki said in their social media post.

“NoName is a Dark Action Mystery set in Northern Europe where supernatural powers are attributed through a person’s name, given to everyone by the government,” reads the official synopsis “A man fighting with wolf companions & a werebear girl investigate a missing child’s case for the government-run Naming Agency.”

Last year, NoName was already on the road to success when it won the first-ever Gold Award for Manga Plus Creators. It wasn’t only published on Shueisha’s flagship digital platforms, Jump+ and Manga Plus, but the team also received a tidy figure of 1,000,000 JPY. Although the manga was officially released this year, non-Japanese speakers will be able to read it, as well as the Japanese version, when it comes to the app next month.

You can get in on the action by downloading the Shonen Jump Plus app for Android and iPhone to begin your manga journey with NoName, or if you can’t wait to get stuck in, the first chapter of the manga is available on the mangaplus site.