Viz's domination of the manga market continued into this year, but that domination was pretty much entirely on the back of its Weekly Shonen Jump properties. That's a good thing when their non-WSJ shonen titles includes manga like this.
RECORD OF RAGNAROK (Shumatsu no Warukyure), written by Shinya Umemura with script by Takumi Fukui and art by Azychika. First published in 2019 and first published in North America in 2022.
PLOT:
The pantheon of gods have decided that humanity is beyond hope and worthy only of destruction. Only the valkyrie Brunhilde is willing to speak up on behalf of humans. She convinces them to participate in a series of one-on-one battles, pitting some of the greatest champions of human history against a selection of the most powerful deities. This is the fated tournament known as Ragnarok.
