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Bana Yoshida Launches Kui Otoko no Mao to Kyuseishu Manga in Big Gangan

Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan announced on X that Bana Yoshida will launch Kui Otoko no Mao to Kyuseishu (The Man-Eating Witches and The Seed of Salvation) in the magazine's third 2027 issue on February 25.

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Why it matters

Big Gangan is handing a full serialization to an artist whose only credited series so far was a spinoff of someone else's light novels, which makes the new title a first test of Yoshida as a lead creator.

Bana Yoshida Launches Kui Otoko no Mao to Kyuseishu Manga in Big Gangan

Key Facts

  • Bana Yoshida's Kui Otoko no Mao to Kyuseishu will launch in Monthly Big Gangan's third 2027 issue on February 25.
  • The magazine's teaser describes the series as a multi-heroine love fantasy.
  • Yoshida and Yuki Yaku launched the Tomozaki spinoff Minami Nanami Wants to Shine on Shogakukan's Manga ONE app in July 2020.
  • Minami Nanami Wants to Shine ran for three compiled volumes, the last published in July 2023.

The teaser describes a multi-heroine love fantasy with beautiful artwork. Yoshida previously drew Minami Nanami Wants to Shine, a spinoff of Yuki Yaku's Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki novels.

The new series carries a February 25 launch date in the third 2027 issue of Monthly Big Gangan, a Square Enix magazine. The advance description promises "extremely beautiful artwork" and a multi-heroine love fantasy, with a teaser line about girl magicians aiming for the protagonist's "seed."

Yoshida's prior work was as artist on Minami Nanami Wants to Shine, a spinoff of Yuki Yaku's Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki light novels, which ran on Shogakukan's Manga ONE app and in Sunday GX and ended at three volumes.

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