Shōnen Champion was first published 15 July 1969. It has had numerous popular series by manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka, Go Nagai, Shinji Mizushima, Masami Kurumada, Keisuke Itagaki. The magazine is published every Thursday. It had a circulation of 500,000 from October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010.
The anime is based on Bukimi Miki’s SHY manga, published as a one-shot magazine in the Weekly ShōnenChampion magazine ... the Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine began its serialization in August 2019.