Show-Ha Shoten!, Vol. 9

A pair of dreamers strive to rise to the top of the comedy world in this story by Akinari Asakura with art by Takeshi Obata (Death Note)!

Shy Azemichi Shijima has secretly been studying the art of comedy. His outgoing classmate Taiyo Higashikata has big dreams of being funny but no follow-through. When the two team up, they just might take the comedy world by storm!

Broken Glass Slipper's first-place reign has finally come to an end! But will Sprechchor be able to defend their hard-won spot all the way to the end? Rising and Shiba Inu World Tour are ready to take the stage, and with the audience's laughter growing louder and louder, one of these two comedy duos may just bring down the roof!

Author: Akinari Asakura
Publisher: Viz Media
Published: 12/16/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781974758210
ISBN10: 1974758214
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | East Asian Style | Manga | General
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Humorous
- Comics & Graphic Novels | School Life

About the Author
Akinari Asakura is a novelist whose previous works include the mysteries Ore de wa nai Enjou (I'm Not the One Being Flamed), Kyoushitsu ga, Hitori ni naru made (Until I'm Alone in the Classroom), Noir Revenant, and the critically acclaimed Rokunin no Usotsuki na Daigakusei (Six Lying College Students). This is his first full-length work as a manga writer.

Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and first achieved international recognition as the artist of the wildly popular Shonen Jump title Hikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: Shinsei "New Hope" Award and the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award. He went on to illustrate the smash hit Death Note as well as the hugely successful manga Bakuman。and All You Need Is Kill.