The official English website for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump has posted the 54-page first chapter of Haruto Ikezawa's debut manga Kurogane.
Shonen Jump describes the manga as follows:
Kurogane is a guy with no athletic ability whatsoever. When Tsubame, the girl who sits next to him in class, invites him to join the kendo club, he naturally turns her down. But then, on the way home from cram school, he's attacked by the ghost of a mysterious swordswoman! A story about careening youth and kendo begins here!!In order To read the manga, you must download the Shonen Jump reader compatible only with Windows. To download the manga and the reader, head over to the Shonen Jump page. There’s no word on how this affects regional publishers like VIZ Media and Yen Press.
Shonen Jump previously posted the first chapter of Ryōsuke Takeuchi and Masaru Miyokawa's debut manga St&rs in English in July. (ANN)