| Yūgai Toshi | |
 Firsttankōbon volume cover | |
| 有害都市 | |
|---|---|
| Manga | |
| Written by | Tetsuya Tsutsui |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Magazine | |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | April 10, 2014 –October 9, 2015 |
| Volumes | 2 |
Yūgai Toshi (有害都市, "Poison City") is a Japanesemanga series written and illustrated byTetsuya Tsutsui. It was serialized inShueisha'sseinen manga magazineJump X [ja] from April to October 2014, until the magazine ceased its publication, and later moved to theTonari no Young Jump website, where it ran from February to October 2015. Its chapters were collected in twotankōbon volumes.
Created in response to what amounted to a ban of Tsutsui's previous workManhole by the government ofNagasaki Prefecture,[1]Yūgai Toshi addressescensorship in Japan and follows fictional events similar to the circumstances ofManhole's ban.
In 2019, theJapanese government cracks down on censorship in the lead-up to the2020 Summer Olympics, making any material they deem "obscene" increasingly difficult to publish. During this time, manga author Hibino Mikio attempts to publishDark Walker, which centers around acontagious disease that turns people intocannibals overnight. These efforts lead to him being embroiled in a conflict between the manga industry and the government overfreedom of speech.
Written and illustrated byTetsuya Tsutsui,Yūgai Toshi started inShueisha'sseinen manga magazineJump X [ja] on April 10, 2014.[2] AfterJump X ceased publication on October 10, 2014,[3][4] an extra chapter was published inWeekly Young Jump on November 27 of that year,[5] and the series was later transferred to theTonari no Young Jump website,[6] where it ran from February 27, 2015,[7] until its conclusion on October 9 of the same year.[8] Shueisha collected its chapters in twotankōbon volumes, released on April 17 and December 18, 2015.[9][10]
The manga was awarded the FrenchACBD's "Asie de la Critique" in 2015.[11] It received the Excellence Award at the 20thJapan Media Arts Festival in 2017.[12]