Gunjō Senki

Gunjō Senki (群青戦記; "Record of Ultramarine") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masaki Kasahara [ja]. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from August 2013 to June 2017. A sequel, titled Shin Gunjō Senki, written by Kasahara and illustrated by Azychika, was serialized in the same magazine from January 2021 to March 2022. A live-action film adaptation, titled Brave: Gunjō Senki, premiered in March 2021.

Gunjō Senki
First tankōbon volume cover
群青戦記
Genre	Action[1] Historical[2]
Manga
Written by	Masaki Kasahara [ja]
Published by	Shueisha
Imprint	Young Jump Comics
Magazine	Weekly Young Jump
Original run	August 29, 2013 – June 15, 2017
Volumes	17
Manga
Shin Gunjō Senki
Written by	Masaki Kasahara
Illustrated by	Azychika
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Weekly Young Jump
Original run	January 7, 2021 – March 17, 2022
Volumes	5
Live-action film
Brave: Gunjō Senki
Directed by	Katsuyuki Motohiro
Written by	Masahiro Yamaura Toru Yamamoto
Music by	Yugo Kanno
Studio	Toho
Released	March 21, 2021 (2021-03-21)

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Masaki Kasahara [ja], Gunjō Senki was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump from August 29, 2013,^[3] to June 15, 2017.^[4] Shueisha collected its chapters in 17 tankōbon volumes, released from January 17, 2014,^[5] to August 18, 2017.^[6]

A sequel, titled Shin Gunjō Senki (真・群青戦記), written by Masaki Kasahara and illustrated by Azychika, was serialized in Weekly Young Jump from January 7, 2021.^[7] to March 17, 2022.^[8] Shueisha collected its chapters in five volumes, released from March 4, 2021,^[9] to April 19, 2022.^[10]

Gunjō Senki

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	January 17, 2014[5]	978-4-08-879739-7
2	February 19, 2014[11]	978-4-08-879824-0
3	May 19, 2014[12]	978-4-08-879844-8
4	August 20, 2014[13]	978-4-08-879885-1
5	November 19, 2014[14]	978-4-08-890039-1
6	February 19, 2015[15]	978-4-08-890120-6
7	May 19, 2015[16]	978-4-08-890155-8
8	August 19, 2015[17]	978-4-08-890241-8
9	November 19, 2015[18]	978-4-08-890284-5
10	February 19, 2016[19]	978-4-08-890358-3
11	May 19, 2016[20]	978-4-08-890410-8
12	August 19, 2016[21]	978-4-08-890480-1
13	November 18, 2016[22]	978-4-08-890517-4
14	February 17, 2017[23]	978-4-08-890590-7
15	May 19, 2017[24]	978-4-08-890641-6
16	August 18, 2017[6]	978-4-08-890724-6
17	August 18, 2017[6]	978-4-08-890725-3

Shin Gunjō Senki

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	March 4, 2021[9]	978-4-08-891859-4
2	June 18, 2021[25]	978-4-08-892005-4
3	September 17, 2021[26]	978-4-08-892076-4
4	December 17, 2021[27]	978-4-08-892169-3
5	April 19, 2022[10]	978-4-08-892249-2

Live-action film

A live-action film adaptation, titled Brave: Gunjō Senki (ブレイブ ‐群青戦記‐, Bureibu Gunjō Senki) premiered in Japan on March 21, 2021. The film stars Mackenyu as Aoi Nishino, Haruma Miura as Ieyasu Tokugawa, Kenichi Matsuyama as Oda Nobunaga and Hirona Yamazaki as Haruka Seno.^[28][1] It was directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro, with scripts by Masahiro Yamaura and Toru Yamamoto, and music composed by Yugo Kanno.^[29] Uverworld performed the film's song theme "Hourglass".^[30]

Reception

By November 2019, the Gunjō Senki manga had over 1 million copies in circulation.^[2]