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In Hand (Japanese: インハンド, Hepburn: In Hando) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ao Akato [ja]. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Evening from October 2018 to November 2020, and in the Comic Days [ja] website from December 2024 to February 2025. Its chapters were collected in six tankōbon volumes. An eleven-episode Japanese television drama adaptation was broadcast on TBS and its affiliates from April to June 2019.

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WrittenbyAo Akato [ja]
PublishedbyKodansha
ImprintAfternoon KC
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In Hand
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Tetsu Himokura
インハンド
(In Hando)
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Manga
Nemesis no Tsue
Written byAo Akato [ja]
Published byKodansha
ImprintAfternoon KC
MagazineMonthly Afternoon
Original runJanuary 25, 2013 – June 25, 2013
Volumes1
Manga
Himokura Hakase to Majime na Migiude
Written byAo Akato
Published byKodansha
ImprintAfternoon KC
MagazineMonthly Afternoon
Original runMarch 25, 2016 – May 25, 2016
Volumes1
Manga
Written byAo Akato
Published byKodansha
ImprintEvening KC
Magazine
  • Evening
  • (October 23, 2018 – November 24, 2020)
  • Comic Days [ja]
  • (December 12, 2024 – February 13, 2025)
Original runOctober 23, 2018 – February 13, 2025
Volumes6
Television drama
Directed byShunichi Hirano
Produced by
Written by
  • Yasuhiro Yoshida
  • Teppei Fukuda
Music byMasahiro Tokuda
Studio
Original networkJNN (TBS)
Original run April 12, 2019 – June 21, 2019
Episodes11
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Akato launched two previous manga series in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon; Nemesis no Tsue, published in 2013, and In Hand: Himokura Hakase to Majime na Migiude, published in 2016.

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Before creating In Hand, Ao Akato [ja] launched a short manga series, titled Nemesis no Tsue (ネメシスの杖; 'Staff of Nemesis'), which ran in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from January 25 to June 25, 2013.[2][3] Its chapters were collected in a single tankōbon volume, released on September 30, 2013.[4]

A three-chapter prologue miniseries, titled In Hand: Himokura Hakase to Majime na Migiude (インハンド 紐倉博士とまじめな右腕; 'In Hand: Dr. Himokura and His Serious Right Arm'), was serialized in Monthly Afternoon from March 25 to May 25, 2016.[5][6][7] Its chapters were collected in a single tankōbon volume, released on July 22, 2016.[8] Both the miniseries and Nemesis no Tsue were republished in two volumes on February 22, 2019, under the title In Hand: Prologue (インハンド プロローグ, In Hando: Purorōgu).[9][10]

In Hand was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Evening from October 23, 2018,[11][12] to November 24, 2020.[13] It was later revived in Kodansha's Comic Days [ja] website on December 12, 2024, where it was serialized until February 13, 2025.[14][15] Kodansha collected its chapters in six tankōbon volumes, released from March 22, 2019,[16] to March 12, 2025.[17]

Volumes

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No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1March 22, 2019[16]978-4-06-515055-9
2September 19, 2019[18]978-4-06-516833-2
3March 23, 2020[19]978-4-06-518914-6
4July 20, 2020[20]978-4-06-520285-2
5February 22, 2021[21]978-4-06-521731-3
6March 12, 2025[17]978-4-06-538694-1
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Drama

In Hand was adapted into a 11-episode Japanese television drama, which was broadcast on TBS from April 12 to June 21, 2019.[1][22][23] It stars Tomohisa Yamashita as protagonist Dr. Tetsu Himokura, Gaku Hamada as assistant Haruma Takaya, and Nanao as politician Tomoe Makino.[22]

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