Supinamarada!
The series was originally serialized in the manga magazine "Weekly Young Jump" from July 2011 to November 2012. A commercial failure during its initial serialization, acclaim for Noda's subsequent manga series "Golden Kamuy" led to renewed critical recognition for "Supinamarada!". A relaunch of the series was announced in 2022. Synopsis. Fifteen year old figure skater Shirakawa Rou's mother dies in a car accident the day before his qualifying performance for the Olympic Games, rendering him grief-stricken and unable to compete. Now orphaned, Shirakawa and his twin sister Haruna are forced to relocate from Tokyo to the  home of their maternal grandfather in Tomakomai, Hokkaido. After an encounter with the hockey-loving Genma brothers, Shirakawa decides to join the school's ice hockey team. The series follows Shirakawa as he learns to play the sport and competes against the hockey teams of rival schools. Production. "Supinamarada!" was creator Satoru Noda's first manga series after nearly a decade as an artist assistant. Noda has stated that the inspiration for "Supinamarada!" was a desire to create a story that was both about hockey and set in his home of Hokkaido. While sports manga about hockey have been produced  in the past, notably "My Heavenly Hockey Club" and "Go!! Southern Ice Hockey Club", Noda has remarked that relative to other sports, hockey is not a ubiquitous sport in the medium. Publication. The series was serialized in the manga magazine "Weekly Young Jump" from July 14, 2011 to November 1, 2012. A one-shot spin-off chapter was later published in the February 2013 issue of the manga magazine "". On April 28, 2022, "Weekly Young Jump" announced that it would relaunch the series, though a specific publication date was not given. Volume list. The series has been collected into six  tankōbon (bound volumes) published by Shueisha: Reception. In an interview with "Asahi Shimbun", Noda stated that "Supinamarada!" was a commercial failure during its initial serialization, and was discontinued after 15 months at the recommendation of his editor. Noda has speculated that the series' hard-to-remember title and slow initial chapters may have contributed to its inability to find an audience. The widespread acclaim for Noda's subsequent manga series "Golden Kamuy" has led to renewed critical recognition for "Supinamarada!"; the works are linked through the "Supinamarada!" character Toshimitsu Nihei, whose name and character design are identical to Tetsuzō Nihei  of "Golden Kamuy".