A prequel series, Mutsu Enmei-ryū Gaiden: Shura no Toki also ran in Monthly Shōnen Magazine, premiering in July 1989 and running until November 2005.

Shura no Mon received the 1990 Kodansha Manga Award for the shōnen category, and has sold over 30 million copies.

Written and illustrated by Masatoshi Kawahara, Shura no Mon was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Magazine from April 1987 to November 1996.

The individual chapters were collected and published in Japan in 31 tankōbon volumes by Kodansha between October 8, 1987, and May 16, 1997.

[1][2] A prequel series, Mutsu Enmei-ryū Gaiden: Shura no Toki (陸奥圓明流外伝 修羅の刻), began serialization in the same magazine in July 1989 where it ran until November 2005.