Three New Manga Series Launch in ASUKA's July Issue
The three launches refresh ASUKA's lineup with a mix of supernatural romance, social-media drama, and suspense, each from creators with established or growing followings.
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Comic Ogyaaa!! Makes Bonkichi! Eiko-San Free for 4th Anniversary
The staggered free-access campaign gives readers a timed window to binge complete runs of several series, including Hattori's well-known Bonkichi! Eiko-san, as part of the site's fourth anniversary.
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Emaqi Adds Four Shonengahosha Manga Volumes for May 2026
The addition of Ikki Tousen Volume 4 marks a notable return for a long-running franchise that has not seen a new English-language volume release in years, while Anjo the Mischievous Gal Volume 12 continues a popular rom-com series that recently reached a major relationship milestone.
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Mother Parasite Manga Enters Final Arc in 18th Volume
The announcement signals that the psycho-suspense series, which launched in 2020, is now heading toward its conclusion after 18 volumes.
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Yu-Gi-Oh Manga Gets 30th Anniversary Music Video Set to 'Overlap'
The music video marks the first major promotional project for the manga's 30th anniversary, which falls in September 2026, and signals the start of a likely series of commemorative releases.
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Manga 'Hey, Wanna Become a Tanuki?' Runs 88 Chapters Free on Pixiv Comic Until May 23
The free run of the complete series offers a limited-time chance for new readers to catch up on a title that has built a following through its premise of a tanuki recruiting humans.
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Piccoma Award 2026 Names 9 Winners Across Three Categories
The Piccoma Award aggregates sales, readership, and engagement data to reflect what is actually performing on the platform, making the list a direct measure of current reader demand.
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Ken Ogino Says Jump Would Not Run His Female-Led Manga Without Eroticism
Ogino's account offers a rare direct look at editorial gatekeeping around gender and content in a major shonen magazine during the mid-2010s.
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Sakamoto Days Live-Action Film Tops 2.23 Billion Yen at Box Office
The box office total confirms the live-action adaptation of Yuto Suzuki's manga as a commercial hit in Japan, sustaining strong attendance into its third week.
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Indonesian Comics Sales Jump 35% But Manga Still Dominates
The growth shows rising local demand, but the 10% market share makes clear that Indonesian comics remain a niche competing against a deeply entrenched manga readership of over 30 million active consumers.
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Mother Trap Manga Launches With Kindergarten PTA Intrigue
The manga taps into the niche but relatable setting of kindergarten PTA politics, a fresh backdrop for a drama about adult social maneuvering.
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Abrams ComicArts' Kana Imprint Licenses Tsubonari's Antengai: Twilight Metropolis Manga
The license brings a complete trilogy of supernatural urban fantasy manga to English readers for the first time, starting with the 2018 original and its two sequels.
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Thank You Pitch Gets First Pop-Up Shop in Shibuya
The pop-up shop's focus on interactive entrance-test challenges and character-specific merchandise signals a deliberate effort to deepen fan engagement with the manga's distinctive baseball club setting beyond standard retail.
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Sora Launches New Manga Arethia After Oblivion in Hana to Yume
The new series marks sora's return to Hana to Yume with a fantasy romance premise that reuses their established interest in morally ambiguous protagonists.
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Keiko Suenobu's Ochitara Owari Manga Gets Live-Action Series
The series adapts Suenobu's recently completed psychological drama about a housewife's fraught social climb in a high-rise, continuing the pattern of live-action treatments of her work that includes Life and Limit.
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Kingdom Box Set Series Launches With First Arc Collection
The box set series gives new readers a curated entry point into Kingdom's early arcs while offering longtime fans a premium collector's edition during the franchise's anniversary year.
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Pop Team Epic Kindle Volumes 1-3 on Sale for 11 Yen Each
The deep discount on the early volumes of a cult-favorite manga makes the series accessible to new readers at a near-nominal price.
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Yuu Yoshinaga to Launch New Manga Saredo, Futari wa Kusare En
The new series gives Yoshinaga a fresh start in the same magazine where she built her readership, and its premise of a combative childhood friendship evolving in high school mirrors the kind of relationship-driven drama that defined her previous work.
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Houbunsha Opens Manga Time Square Website
The launch gives Houbunsha a dedicated digital platform for its Manga Time lineup, making those serialized works freely available online for the first time.
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Osamu Tezuka's War Manga 'Paper Fortress' Gets Live-Action NHK Special
The special adapts a deeply personal work by the manga pioneer, using his own wartime and postwar struggles as the narrative frame, and marks a rare live-action treatment of Tezuka's autobiographical material.
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I'm Fine With Being the Second Girlfriend Light Novel Series Ends With 9th Volume
The conclusion of the series closes a story that earned recognition in the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! awards and built a readership around a premise of secret relationships and emotional compromise.
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Kuroha Launches New Manga SATANICA on Shonen Jump+
Kuroha returns to Shonen Jump+ with a new series after wrapping their previous Jump SQ. title in 2024, marking their first ongoing work since Fallen Angel Theory ended.
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Kaiju Girl Caramelise Volumes 5-8 Reveal Kuroe's True Origin
The series abandons its earlier puberty-as-monster metaphor for a concrete origin story, reframing Kuroe's transformation as her true self rather than a phase to outgrow.
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Land Volume 2 Reveals the Dark Purpose of The Beyond
The volume shifts the series from a mystery about parallel worlds into a pointed critique of how societies discard the old, with the creators of The Land implied to be playing out a cruel social experiment.
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