Pineapple Army

• Type — manga • Author — Kazuya Kudo • Illustrator — Naoki Urasawa • Publisher — Shogakukan • Magazine — Big Comic Original • First — 1985 • Last — 1988 • Volumes — 8 • Volume List — #Volume list

• Ja Kanji — パイナップルARMY • Ja Romaji — Painappuru Āmī • Genre — * Action • Military

The series stars Japanese-American Jed Goshi (ジェド・豪士), a former United States Marine who served in the Vietnam War. After leaving the marines he fought all over the world as a mercenary, before retiring in 1979. Now living in New York, he makes a living training others in combat. Goshi does not discriminate against those he trains, whether its Bengali militiamen, salarymen, or four little girls.

Pineapple Army is written by Kazuya Kudo and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. Takashi Nagasaki came up with the premise of the manga, but Urasawa tried to add humor because he found it "difficult". It initially takes place in New York, but because the editor believed the magazine's main demographic was male, the setting changes to Europe at a certain point.

Written by Kazuya Kudo and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, Pineapple Army was serialized in the magazine Big Comic Original from 1985 to 1988. It is Urasawa's first major work and he would go on to draw Yawara! simultaneous with it. The individual chapters were collected into eight tankōbon volumes by Shōgakukan between March 29, 1986, and July 30, 1988. A six-volume bunkoban edition was published between November 17, 1995, and March 16, 1996. In 1988, Viz Media began publishing Pineapple Army in English in a chapterly comic book format. These had new cover art drawn in a drastically different art style by an unknown artist. But the run was unsuccessful and cancelled after ten issues were released. Although, one graphic novel collecting them was also published with an afterword by James D. Hudnall. The manga is also licensed in France by Glénat, in Spain by Planeta DeAgostini Comics, and in Sweden by Epix Förlag.