It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from 1997 to 2001, with its chapters collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes.

Written and illustrated by Hideki Arai, The World Is Mine was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from 1997 to 2001.

[3] Enterbrain republished the manga in a five-volume revised edition, "Shinsetsu The World Is Mine" (真説 ザ・ワールド・イズ・マイン), from August 31 to October 25, 2006.

Machiyama said that the story "sounds really stupid and meaningless", but that it is "meticulously rendered in detailed super-realism", highlighting its art.

"[11] Manga author Tatsuki Fujimoto commented the influence that Arai's The World Is Mine and Kiichi!!