Big Comic Original
Written by Kazuya Kudo and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, "Pineapple Army" was serialized in the magazine "Big Comic Original" from 1985 to 1988. It is Urasawa's first major work and he would go on to draw "Yawara!" simultaneous with it. The individual chapters were collected into eight "tankōbon" by Shogakukan between March 29, 1986 and July 30, 1988. A six-volume "bunkoban " edition was published between November 17, 1995 and March 16, 1996.