''Mr. Clice'' is a Japanese

manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

series written and illustrated by

Osamu Akimoto is a Japanese manga artist from Katsushika, Tokyo. He is best known for his long-running comedy series ''KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops'', which was continuously published in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' for 40 years from 1976 to 2016. With 1,960 chapte ...

. It was irregularly serialized in

Shueisha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Shueisha is the largest publishing company in Japan. It was established in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The ...

's manga magazine ''

Monthly Shōnen Jump was a shōnen manga magazine which was published monthly in Japan by Shueisha from 1970 to 2007 under the '' Jump'' line of magazines. It was the sister magazine to ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''. History The ''Monthly Shōnen Jump'' magazine star ...

'' from 1985 to 2007. It resumed publication in ''

Jump Square , also written as , is a Japanese monthly manga magazine. Published by Shueisha, the magazine premiered on November 2, 2007, as a replacement for ''Monthly Shōnen Jump'', another manga anthology that Shueisha discontinued in June of that year. ...

'' (2017–2018) and ''Jump SQ.Rise'' (2018–present).

Premise

is the top

secret agent Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering, as a subfield of the intelligence field, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence). A person who commits espionage on a mission-specific contract is called an ''e ...

in Japan's . But after being mortally wounded on a mission, the agency transfers his brain/mind into the body of a recently deceased 20-year-old woman in order to keep him alive. Clice continues his job as a spy, embarking on dangerous missions all around the world, while dealing with the new issues he faces as a woman and hoping to eventually obtain a male body again. He often works with , the agency's Italian operative.

Publication

Written and illustrated by

, ''Mr. Clice'' started in

's manga magazine ''

'' in the December 1985 issue. It was irregularly serialized until June 6, 2007, when the magazine ceased publication. Shueisha collected its chapters in five volumes, released from April 10, 1989, to May 1, 2003. About nine years later, Akimoto resumed the series' publication in ''

'', where it ran from February 3, 2017, to January 4, 2018. The series has continued in ''Jump SQ.Rise'' since April 16, 2018. Shueisha re-released the five first volumes in a new edition and released the sixth volume on November 2, 2017.

Volumes

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