Candy and Cigarettes

Candy and Cigarettes (stylized as CANDY & CIGARETTES) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomonori Inoue. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Young Magazine the 3rd from January 2017 to May 2021, with its chapters collected in 11 tankōbon volumes. The series follow a middle-aged former police officer who becomes the assistant to an 11-year-old professional assassin.

Candy and Cigarettes
First tankōbon volume cover
Genre	Action[1] Neo-noir[1] Thriller[1]
Manga
Written by	Tomonori Inoue
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA: Seven Seas Entertainment
Magazine	Young Magazine the 3rd (January 6, 2017–April 6, 2021) Monthly Young Magazine (May 20–July 19, 2021)
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	January 6, 2017 – July 19, 2021
Volumes	11

Publication

Candy and Cigarettes, written and illustrated by Tomonori Inoue [ja], was first serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Young Magazine the 3rd [ja] from January 6, 2017,^[2][3] to April 6, 2021, when the magazine ceased its publication.^[4][5] The manga was transferred to Monthly Young Magazine [ja], where it ran from May 20 to July 19, 2021.^[6][7][8] Kodansha collected its chapters in eleven tankōbon volumes, released from June 20, 2017,^[9] to November 18, 2021.^[10]

In December 2021, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they had licensed the manga for an English release in North America starting in August 2022.^[1]

Volumes

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	June 20, 2017[11]	978-4-06-382982-2	October 18, 2022[12]	978-1-63858-590-9
2	November 20, 2017[13]	978-4-06-510344-9	December 13, 2022[14]	978-1-63858-746-0
3	April 20, 2018[15]	978-4-06-511286-1	February 14, 2023[16]	978-1-63858-871-9
4	November 20, 2018[17]	978-4-06-513553-2	May 23, 2023[18]	978-1-63858-981-5
5	July 19, 2019[19]	978-4-06-516364-1	August 15, 2023[20]	978-1-68579-510-8
6	April 20, 2020[21]	978-4-06-519188-0	October 31, 2023[22]	978-1-68579-937-3
7	April 20, 2020[21]	978-4-06-519220-7	February 13, 2024[23]	979-8-88843-338-6
8	December 18, 2020[24]	978-4-06-521713-9	May 7, 2024[25]	979-8-88843-339-3
9	May 20, 2021[26]	978-4-06-523285-9	August 13, 2024[27]	979-8-88843-781-0
10	October 20, 2021[28]	978-4-06-525102-7	November 26, 2024[29]	979-8-89160-037-9
11	November 18, 2021[10]	978-4-06-525881-1	February 4, 2025[30]	979-8-89160-548-0

See also

• Coppelion, another manga series by the same author