Gachiakuta Manga Returns From Hiatus on November 11
The manga has been paused since early August for research, so the November 11 date sets the weekly schedule back in motion while the anime's second season is still in production.
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TakeComi Marks First Anniversary With Four Free Manga Titles
The campaign gives TakeComi! a concrete anniversary hook, pairing a rotating free window for four anime-adapted series with a reader-voted ranking split into overall and new-serialization categories.
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Ulearn Launches AI Manga Platform Drawspire
A platform that pairs AI panel generation with a built-in similarity check is an attempt to answer the rights question that has followed generative tools into manga, rather than leave it to creators after publication.
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Croquette Author Manavu Kishimoto Launches Tantei Neko Machida Manga
Kashimoto returns to the same Shogakukan children's manga imprint where Croquette! ran for over two decades, with the sequel ending in May 2025, so the new series fills the slot he vacated this year.
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Seven Seas Licenses Six Manga and Novels for 2027
Seven Seas is stacking its 2027 slate with a mix of school comedy, battle royale, omegaverse romance, and isekai-adjacent drama, covering several genres its catalog already serves.
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Ochibure Zeus to Dorei no Ko Moves to Zero-Sum Online in Spring
A magazine serialization ending mid-story and restarting from chapter one on a different publisher's website is an unusual reset, and Ohitsuji's stated need to adjust production and recover health is the reason the schedule broke.
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Tezuka Documentary Launches Kickstarter Toward 2028 Release
The campaign puts a fan-funded Tezuka documentary on a 2028 clock tied to the centenary of his birth, with interviews from creators including Katsuhiro Otomo, Riyoko Ikeda, Naoki Urasawa, Go Nagai, and Yoshiyuki Tomino already attached.
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Kadokawa's Young Ace Apologizes Over Unauthorized Character Designs
A publisher admitting its own editorial pipeline skipped the permission step puts the blame on Kadokawa's internal communication rather than on the two creators, which is the version of the story the apology is built to establish.
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MANGA MILLION Adds Hiromasa Okujima's Together with Serial-san
MANGA MILLION is stocking an Okujima title while the creator's Baban Baban Ban Vampire carries both an anime and a live-action film into the service's library.
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Mahjong Pros Launches Manga Imprint With Eight Mahjong Titles
An English-language publisher is staking a lineup on a manga genre that has decades of Japanese publishing behind it and almost no translated presence in English, so the imprint is a test of whether that gap is a demand problem or a distribution one.
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Mobile Suit Gundam Aggressor Volume 25 Reaches the Solomon Arc Final Stage
Twenty-five volumes in, Aggressor is still working the One Year War's Solomon campaign, and this installment pushes its own cast through the same battle the original series used to break the Zeon line.
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TO Books Releases Abandoned Duchess Volume 5, Comic Book 3, and Drama CD Together
A single-day multi-format release lets TO Books push the novel, manga, and drama CD to the same buyer in one purchase window, backed by the reprint and the strong showing in This Light Novel Is Amazing! 2026.
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Manga Artist Daichi Banjou Says Cancer Has Returned
Banjou's posts lay out a choice between treatment and the energy to keep drawing, and he frames the decision in the terms of his own trade: a life, like a serialization, that he will not let be canceled partway through.
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Odekake Kozame Exhibition Sets Hanshin Umeda Run From December 27
The exhibition moves to Umeda after a Tokyo run, and advance tickets open about two months before the doors do, so the December dates are the first hard measure of how far the anniversary program travels.
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The Promised Neverland And Blue Box Get New Novels In December
Both novels extend finished manga past their final chapters, and Blue Box Epilogue lands the same day as the series' 28th and final volume.
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Monthly Dragon Age Ends Two Manga Series in Consecutive Issues
Both endings fall within a month in the same magazine, and Kadokawa ships the second Tsūkaku volume on the same day the Isekai Yurutto adaptation closes.
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Black Summoner Manga Ends With Its 200th Chapter
The manga closes on a round 200 chapters and a 26-volume run, while the English side of the property stays active through J-Novel Club's digital releases and Yen Press' physical editions.
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Masashi Kishimoto Returns With New Naruto Shadow Rising Manga
Project Rasengan commits the Naruto IP to a roadmap stretching into 2029 across four media, which is the largest coordinated rollout the franchise has been given and sets expectations for the December Jump Festa stage.
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Glacier Bay Books Adds Five Manga Licenses
The five licenses and the Kickstarter pre-order window show Glacier Bay Books still adding to its line while it absorbs the Star Fruit Books catalog it took over.
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Global Manga Platform Editors Talk Simultaneous Releases at New York Comic Con
The people running the apps built to close the gap between Japanese and overseas releases say the feedback loop, not the release schedule, is what has changed in how manga reaches readers abroad.
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Manga Creator Masako Watanabe Dies At 97
Watanabe kept publishing into her nineties, and her career, from a 1952 debut through a 2020 series launch, traces the shojo and josei field's postwar formation.
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The Coppersmith's Bride Manga Ends in Three Chapters
The ending date, set by the creator rather than the publisher, gives readers and the English licensee roughly three months to prepare for a series that has run in Harta since May 2020.
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Hirosaki Launches Saijaku Mao no Shinimodori Saiseitan Manga
Hirosaki's Villainous Prince adaptation ran from July 2023 to March 2025 under Dengeki Comic Regulus with three volumes and a Yen Press English release, so the new series carries a completed track record into a fresh title on the same web platform's relaunched branding.
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Hunter x Hunter Stage Play Reveals Chimera Ant Cast And 2027 Dates
Splitting the Chimera Ant arc across two stage productions means this announcement carries only the first half's cast and schedule, so the second part remains unannounced.
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