Kōhei Horikoshi and Masashi Kishimoto have recommended Kagurabachi. Vaundy has too. Those are public comments, not ghostwriters. The series ranked seventh on AnimeJapan’s 2024 Most Wanted Anime Adaptation poll, won the 2024 Next Manga Award in print, placed on Da Vinci’s Book of the Year (22nd in 2024, 13th in 2025), and sixth on Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2025 for male readers. 2026: Daruma for Best Action Manga at Japan Expo.
A plaque is not the chapter
The meme page is why people opened chapter 1. This page is why a certain kind of reader stayed after the joke: other makers pointed. Circulation and ISBNs stay on the publication record. See publication, meme to flagship, Hokazono.