Designs (Japanese: ディザインズ, Hepburn: Dizainzu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Daisuke Igarashi. It was serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon from April 2015 to March 2019, with its chapters collected in five tankōbon volumes. The series revolved around genetically engineered humanized animals.
Designs | |
ディザインズ (Dizainzu) | |
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Genre | Science fiction[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Daisuke Igarashi |
Published by | Kodansha |
Imprint | Afternoon KC |
Magazine | Monthly Afternoon |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | April 25, 2015 – March 25, 2019 |
Volumes | 5 |
Designs is written and illustrated by Daisuke Igarashi. It was serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon from April 25, 2015,[1][2] to March 25, 2019.[3][4] Kodansha collected its chapters in five tankōbon volumes, released from February 23, 2016,[5] to November 22, 2019.[6]
No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN |
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1 | February 23, 2016[5] | 978-4-06-388124-0 |
2 | March 23, 2017[7] | 978-4-06-388246-9 |
3 | January 23, 2018[8] | 978-4-06-510776-8 |
4 | October 23, 2019[9] | 978-4-06-517177-6 |
5 | November 22, 2019[6] | 978-4-06-517484-5 |
The series ranked ninth on "The Best Manga 2017 Kono Manga wo Yome!" ranking by Freestyle magazine.[10] Designs was nominated for the Yomiuri Shimbun's Sugoi Japan Award 2017.[11] The series ranked eighteenth on Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook 2017 list of top manga for male readers.[12]