Saturn Return (manga)

For other uses, see Saturn Return (disambiguation).

Saturn Return (Japanese: サターンリターン, Hepburn: Satān Ritān) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akane Torikai [ja]. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from January 2019 to October 2022, with its chapters collected in ten tankōbon volumes.

Saturn Return
First tankōbon volume cover
サターンリターン (Satān Ritān)
Manga
Written by	Akane Torikai [ja]
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Weekly Big Comic Spirits
Original run	January 21, 2019 – October 31, 2022
Volumes	10

Publication

Written and illustrated by Akane Torikai [ja], Saturn Return was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from January 21, 2019,^[1] to October 31, 2022.^[2][3] Shogakukan collected its chapters in ten tankōbon volumes, released from June 28, 2019,^[4] to February 28, 2023.^[5]

Volumes

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	June 28, 2019[6]	978-4-09-860314-5
2	November 29, 2019[7]	978-4-09-860487-6
3	April 27, 2019[8]	978-4-09-860598-9
4	September 30, 2019[9]	978-4-09-860742-6
5	March 30, 2021[10]	978-4-09-861008-2
6	November 30, 2021[11]	978-4-09-861147-8
7	July 29, 2022[12]	978-4-09-861384-7
8	October 28, 2022[13]	978-4-09-861454-7
9	February 28, 2023[5]	978-4-09-861587-2
10	February 28, 2023[5]	978-4-09-861590-2

Reception

Saturn Return was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020.^[14] The series has been nominated for the 28th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2024.^[15]

See also

• Sensei's Pious Lie, another manga series by the same author