Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father!

Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi examthe test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in the traditional Japanese art of rakugo. Akane Osaki his daughter and biggest fan spies on him while he practices and learns his routines for herself. When rakugo master Issho Arakawa expels everyone after the exam with no explanation a fire is lit inside Akane. From that day forth she has had one goalto avenge her father and prove his art was worthy of the title of shin'uchi.

After watching Chocho perform Akane starts to see a path to becoming the kind of rakugoka she wants to be. She eagerly asks him to take her under his wing but with Chocho everything is a gamble. Meanwhile one of Chocho's apprentices Akane's friend Asagao is ready to be promoted to futatsume. Chocho tasks him with a final testfilling a performance venue with a series of trial performances. Asagao asks Akane and Karashi to help him and the three of them struggle to find a way to meet Chocho's demands. But then Akane comes up with an idea that may just be crazy enough to work

About the Author

Yuki Suenaga previously published the one-shot Tatarashido in 2021 in Weekly Shonen Jump . Akane-banashi is their first serialized title. It began its run in Weekly Shonen Jump in February 2022 and won third place in the print manga category at the eighth Next Manga Awards in 2022.

About the Illustrator

Takamasa Moue started his manga career in 2015 by participating in Shonen Jump's Golden Future Cup contest with the one-shot Galaxy Gangs. His first serialization Ole Golazo ran in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2016. In 2017 he published a short serialization in Jump GIGA called K.K. in the City of Fog which ran for three chapters. In 2021 he teamed up with Yuki Suenaga to create the one-shot Tatarashido. In February 2022 the two worked together to publish what would be his second serialization Akane-banashi.