This year's 35th issue of Shueisha 's Weekly Young Jump magazine is announcing on Thursday that Hiroshi Ueda ( Full Metal Panic! Sigma , The Story of Beijing Opera ) will illustrate a manga based on the Tiger & Bunny superhero anime starting in this year's 5th issue of Shueisha 's bi-monthly Miracle Jump magazine, to be released in October.

Weekly Young Jump announced earlier this month that Masakazu Katsura will be drawing a special 39-page one-shot Tiger & Bunny manga. Katsura is the original character designer of Tiger & Bunny , and he is also the creator of such manga as DNA² , I''s , Video Girl Ai , and Zetman .

Sunrise 's Tiger & Bunny anime centers around heroes for hire — super powered beings known as NEXT who wear sponsor logos while fighting crime on live television. Keiichi Satou ( Karas director, The Big O character/mechanical designer) i s helming the project, and Yoshihiro Ike ( Blood: The Last Vampire , Karas , Dead Leaves ) i s composing the music.

Viz Media i s streaming the anime outside Japan as it airs.

Source: Yaraon!

Image © Sunrise / T&B Partners , MBS

Update: Launch date corrected. Thanks, Manganews.