Godmother Manga One-Shot From Young Magazine US Run Gets Serialization
The serialization turns a one-shot from Kodansha's English-language Young Magazine US issue into a Monthly Young Magazine series, giving the publisher's overseas-facing experiment a direct line to its Japanese print lineup.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Kodansha's Monthly Young Magazine says Rin Shimokawa's "Godmother" will launch as a series in the next issue on November 18. The original one-shot ran in the special Young Magazine US English issue in August 2025. It follows Kinryu, a college student forced to leave school and move to Japan to care for a 114-year-old grandmother she did not know she had in Yokohama.
The one-shot centers on Kinryu, who is pulled out of college and sent overseas to Japan to care for a 114-year-old grandmother she did not know existed. She ends up in Yokohama, where her grandmother lives behind a mahjong parlor, and learns about a supernatural secret carried on the female side of her family.
Shimokawa's story first appeared in Kodansha's special Young Magazine US English issue in August 2025. The November issue of Monthly Young Magazine carried the serialization notice, with the first chapter set for the magazine's next issue on November 18.
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