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Brave Story ~New Theory~ (ブレイブ・ストーリー〜新説〜) is a Japanese manga series based on the original Brave Story novel by Miyuki Miyabe written and illustrated by Yoichiro Ono who inspired to create the series after the novel won the Batchelder Award. It was serialization in Shinchosha's Weekly Comic Bunch magazine from April 9, 2004 to March 14, 2008, where the chapters published into 20 tankōbon volumes. The manga is licensed and published in English by Tokyopop. It is also licensed in France by Kurokawa.

The manga adaptation of the novel where the characters are in their last year of middle school and are notably older.

The author then rewrote a remake of the manga titled Brave Story New Theory ~Ten Commandments~ which published in Weekly Comic Bunch.

Differences from the Original[]

Some notable changes from the character designs include:

  • Wataru and his friends in middle school (14 years old).
  • Wataru is more masculine with dyed hair streaks in the front of his bangs.
  • Mitsuru has notably straighter hair and is more masculine.
  • Kaori Daimatsu is the tritagonist with little connection to the novel plot while she is made another License-holder, and connected to Matsushima Shrine which owns Daimatsu building and that building is source to her family's financial trouble..

Volumes[]

New Theory[]

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