Beast Children

A manga about a young rugby player who competes against the son of the late rugby player who inspired him to start playing.

We’ve discussed this on an older episode.

The rugby world cup was held in 2019 in Japan. While Japan became crazy about rugby numerous manga popped up to try and cash in on the zeitgeist. Beast Children is one of them. It’s a pretty mediocre series that should’ve been cancelled quickly but Weekly Shonen Jump let it stick around for a bit. I kinda feel like this along with Tokyo Shinobi Squad and Double Taisei all got to survive while Japan got swept up in rugby fever. You can read this series by Kento Terasaka on Manga Plus.

~dakazu