Jinmen (manga)

Jinmen (ジンメン) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takahiro Katō. It was serialized on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry [ja] manga website from July 2016 to June 2019, with its chapters collected in thirteen tankōbon volumes.

Jinmen
First volume cover
ジンメン
Genre	Horror[1]
Manga
Written by	Takahiro Katō
Published by	Shogakukan
Imprint	Shōnen Sunday Comics Special
Magazine	Sunday Webry [ja]
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	July 13, 2016 – June 24, 2019
Volumes	13

Plot

Masato Jingū is an animal lover who returns to his hometown for the first time in seven years after transferring schools. Masato invites his childhood friend Hitomi on a date to the zoo that he had frequented in his youth. However, they and zoo employee Nakata are suddenly attacked by animals with human faces. While seeking escape from the animals, named "Jinmen", Nakata discloses that the Jinmen are the result of experiments carried out by the zoo director under the guise of health checkups. The group eventually finds itself trapped behind a gigantic circular trench surrounding the Mount Fuji area and containing the Jinmen. An unusually expedient government reports zero casualties from the formation of this trench, and an electromagnetic field prevents helicopters from rescuing trapped humans, whom the Jinmen begin capturing to use as livestock. The trio make their way to the local JSDF base to seek an escape over the trench.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Takahiro Katō, Jinmen was serialized on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry [ja] manga website from July 13, 2016,^[2] to June 24, 2019.^[3] Shogakukan collected its chapters in thirteen tankōbon volumes, released from January 12, 2017,^[4] to September 12, 2019.^[5]

Volumes

No.	Japanese release date	Japanese ISBN
1	January 12, 2017[4]	978-4-09-127533-2
2	March 10, 2017[6]	978-4-09-127582-0
3	May 12, 2017[7]	978-4-09-127610-0
4	August 10, 2017[8]	978-4-09-127715-2
5	November 10, 2017[9]	978-4-09-127891-3
6	February 9, 2018[10]	978-4-09-128100-5
7	May 11, 2018[11]	978-4-09-128284-2
8	August 9, 2018[12]	978-4-09-128457-0
9	November 12, 2018[13]	978-4-09-128696-3
10	February 12, 2019[14]	978-4-09-128855-4
11	May 10, 2019[15]	978-4-09-129190-5
12	July 12, 2019[16]	978-4-09-129348-0
13	September 12, 2019[5]	978-4-09-129358-9

Reception

In 2018, the manga was nominated for the 64th Shogakukan Manga Awards in the shōnen category.^[17]