Momiji no Kisetsu

A manga about a terrible shogi player who strives to win the professional shogi title of Ryu-ou and realize the dream of his brother, a genius shogi player who passed away due to illness.

We’ve discussed this on an episode of Darfox Dabbles.

I was rooting for this series when it started in Weekly Shonen Jump as I am a fan of shogi manga like 81 Diver and March comes in like a Lion. Unfortunately it was doomed to fail as the readership of Jump wasn’t likely to support a manga about shogi. This also happened to Mononofu, another shogi manga that did better but still got canceled in Jump after 5 volumes.

I feel like shogi manga can only find success in a seinen magazine.

~dakazu