This year's 35th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine has announced on Monday that the next issue will ship on August 9 with a 15-page story from Rakko 11-gō (Otter #11) — the manga from the fictional world of the Bakuman. manga series. Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Bakuman. story revolves around two aspiring manga creators in high school. In the world of Bakuman., a professional artist named Kazuya Hiramaru created Rakko 11-gō, a hit gag comedy manga about otter people. Rakko 11-gō was even made into an anime in Bakuman.'s world.

Viz Media announced at Comic-Con International last year that it licensed the Bakuman. manga for North America. An television anime adaptation of the manga has been green-lit for this fall.