Kadokawa Taps Yasunori Bizen for Friends Are Thieves of Time Manga
Monthly Comic Flapper announced on Thursday that Yasunori Bizen will launch a manga adaptation of the Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. anime shorts in the magazine's February 2027 issue. Bizen said the serialization will run about six months.
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Why it matters
The short-film spin-off gets the same magazine and artist as the main Lycoris Recoil manga, with a roughly six-month run, so the franchise's anime-side material is being folded into Comic Flapper's existing pipeline right as that pipeline loses the main series.
Key Facts
- Yasunori Bizen will launch the Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. manga in Monthly Comic Flapper's February 2027 issue.
- Bizen stated the serialization will run for about six months.
- Bizen's Lycoris Recoil manga adaptation ended in the magazine's December issue on Thursday.
- The six-episode shorts debuted on Aniplex's official YouTube channel in April 2025.
The artist's adaptation of the main Lycoris Recoil manga ended in the December issue the same day.
The February 2027 issue of Monthly Comic Flapper will carry the launch of Yasunori Bizen's adaptation of the six-episode short series, which centered on daily life at Cafe LycoReco. The same magazine closed out Bizen's Lycoris Recoil adaptation in its December issue on Thursday.
Bizen put a length on the new work: about six months of serialization. The shorts debuted on Aniplex's official YouTube channel in April 2025 and also streamed on Aniplex USA's channel and on Crunchyroll. Kadokawa shipped the ninth compiled volume of Bizen's Lycoris Recoil manga on August 21, and Yen Press shipped the fifth volume in English on June 23.
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