Takehiko Inoue
"Real" is written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. It started its serialization in the "seinen manga" magazine "Weekly Young Jump" in 1999. The individual chapters have been collected by Shueisha into individual "tankōbon" volumes, with the first volume being published on March 19, 2001. After a long hiatus started in 2014, Inoue announced in 2019 that he would resume the manga on May 23 of the same year. The next chapter of the manga was published on August 29. A new chapter was published in February 2020. As of November 19, 2020, 15 volumes have been published.