Arata: The Legend

Arata: The Legend
Cover of the first tankōbon volume, featuring Arata Hinohara (front) and Kotoha (back)
アラタカンガタリ 〜革神語〜 (Arata Kangatari)
Genre	Adventure[1] Isekai[2]
Manga
Written by	Yuu Watase
Published by	Shogakukan
English publisher	NA: Viz Media
Imprint	Shōnen Sunday Comics (tankōbon edition) Shōnen Sunday Comics Special (Remaster edition)
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday (2008–2022) Sunday Webry (2022–2023)
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	October 1, 2008 – November 1, 2023
Volumes	24 (tankōbon) 18 (Remaster) (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Woo Hyun Park (chief) Kenji Yasuda
Written by	Mayori Sekijima
Music by	Kow Otani
Studio	Satelight JM Animation
Licensed by	NA: Crunchyroll
Original network	TV Tokyo, TVA, TVO, AT-X
Original run	April 8, 2013 – July 1, 2013
Episodes	12

Arata: The Legend (Japanese: アラタカンガタリ 〜革神語〜, Hepburn: Arata Kangatari) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuu Watase. It started serialization in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday in October 2008. Its chapters were collected in 24 tankōbon volumes, while a Remaster edition started in July 2013, with 17 volumes published as of May 2023. After a nearly six-year hiatus that began in August 2015, the series resumed publication, with republished chapters in May 2021 and all-new chapters started publishing in July of the same year; the series finished in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in April 2022 and was transferred to the Sunday Webry website in May of the same year. In May 2021, it was announced that the tankōbon edition would stop publishing and the series will only continue with the Remaster edition. The series finished in November 2023. In North America, the manga is licensed for English release by Viz Media. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by Satelight and Korean studio JM Animation was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April to July 2013.