What did Norihiro Yagi do after Claymore?
He went quiet for three years, then built another sky, for someone else's magazine.
When Claymore ended in October 2014, Norihiro Yagi had drawn one series for thirteen years. His next moves were smaller and stranger: a one-shot back in the flagship, then a long fantasy for Shogakukan, Shueisha's great rival, in the pages of Weekly Shonen Sunday.
THE GAP
2014 to 2017Moonlight Arcadia
Yagi resurfaced with a one-shot, Gekko no Arcadia (Moonlight Arcadia), in Weekly Shonen Jump in March 2017: a single chapter of sky-fantasy that read, in hindsight, as the seed of the series to come.
ARIADNE IN THE BLUE SKY
Weekly Shonen Sunday · 2017 to 2023A new home
Ariadne in the Blue Sky (Sokyu no Ariadne) launched in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday on 6 December 2017: a boy raised in isolation meets a girl from a floating city, and Yagi's medieval machinery turns toward the sky. It ran in the magazine until September 2022.
The web finish
In September 2022 the series transferred to Shogakukan's Sunday Webry app and finished there on 9 February 2023. Shogakukan collected it in 22 volumes, April 2018 to March 2023. As of the sources behind this page it has no English edition, which makes it the great untranslated Yagi.
THE RETURN
Shonen Jump+ · December 2024A Jump one-shot again
In December 2024 Yagi published a new one-shot on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ app, his first work for the Jump family since the Arcadia one-shot, thirty-four years after UNDEADMAN won its prize in a Shueisha magazine. The career has come full circle more than once.