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Saru (stylized as SARU,
lit. "Monkey") is a Japanese
manga written and illustrated by
Daisuke Igarashi. It was created by a project with novelist author
Kōtarō Isaka, in which they together shared ideas to create independents novel and manga works. Saru was launched by
Shogakukan in two volumes in February and October 2010.
Publication
Saru is written and illustrated by
Daisuke Igarashi. It was created by a project with novelist author
Kōtarō Isaka, in which they together shared ideas to create independent novel and manga works. Isaka wrote the novel SOS no Saru (SOSの猿, "SOS Monkey"), released by
Chuokoron-Shinsha on November 25, 2009,[1] and Igarashi published an introductory chapter of Saru on the same day on Monthly Ikki's website Ikki Paradise.[2] The two volumes of Saru were published by
Shogakukan under the "Ikki Comix" imprint on February 25 and October 29, 2010.[3][4]
The manga has been licensed in France by Éditions Sarbacane,[5] and in Italy by J-Pop.[6]