Candy and Cigarettes
Candy and Cigarettes is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tomonori Inoue. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Young Magazine the 3rd from January 2017 to May 2021, with its chapters collected in 11 tankōbon volumes. The series follow a middle-aged former police officer who becomes the assistant to an 11-year-old professional assassin.
Publication
Candy and Cigarettes, written and illustrated by, was first serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine ' from January 6, 2017, to April 6, 2021, when the magazine ceased its publication. The manga was transferred to ', where it ran from May 20 to July 19, 2021. Kodansha collected its chapters in eleven tankōbon volumes, released from June 20, 2017, to November 18, 2021.In December 2021, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they had licensed the manga for an English release in North America starting in August 2022.