he then reunited with tsugumi ohba for "bakuman.", which ran from august 2008 to april 2012. it was shueisha's first manga to be released online in multiple languages before becoming available in print outside japan and had over 15 million copies in publication as of may 2014. in 2014, he drew a manga adaptation of "all you need is kill" with ryōsuke takeuchi, basing the character designs on yoshitoshi abe's original cover to the novel. he reunited with nisio isin for the one-shot "rkd-ek9", that ran in the december 2014 issue of "jump sq.".