Nyankees Creator Atsushi Okada Launches Tataki the Side Hustle Manga
Okada returns to serialization with a crime-action premise that reuses the vigilante-adjacent tone of his earlier work, now on a digital-first platform.
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Fire Emblem Engage Manga Nears Its Climax
The announcement signals that the manga adaptation of the 2023 strategy RPG is entering its final story arc, with seven volumes already published.
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Haibara's Teenage New Game+ Light Novel Series Ends Main Story With 11th Volume
The conclusion of the main story closes the core narrative of a series that won a major light novel award and recently received an anime adaptation, with only an epilogue volume remaining.
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Dog Signal and Emma Sensei Release Collaborative Dog Care Essay
The essay combines a popular manga property with professional dog training advice, offering a structured guide for current and prospective dog owners.
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Aki Sora Creator Masahiro Itosugi Reports Google Ban After Uploading Old Works
The incident highlights the tension between regional content standards and global platform policies, a recurring issue for creators of adult or sensitive material.
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Manga Mavericks Licenses Taiyo Matsumoto's Brothers of Japan
The license brings an early Taiyo Matsumoto work to English readers for the first time, based on the updated 2010 edition.
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Kadokawa World Manga Contest Winners Discuss Wordless Storytelling
The contest offers non-Japanese creators a direct path to serialization in Japan, and the wordless category tests whether visual storytelling alone can meet that market's standards.
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You Can't Escape from Mizudako-Chan Volume 1 Leans Into Eldritch Horror
The series subverts the usual monster-girl humanization formula by embedding genuine horror undertones within a seemingly sweet setup.
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Merit and the Egyptian God Rushes Through Shojo Manga Plot Points
The review suggests the manga's rushed pacing may leave readers wondering where the story can go next after front-loading so many key events.
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Hunter X Hunter Volume 39 Arrives July 3, First New Volume in 22 Months
The volume's release confirms that Togashi is still producing new material despite the series' irregular pace, and the gap between volumes has not widened compared to the previous interval.
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Ouran High School Host Club Gets New Art for LaLa 50th Anniversary Freebie
This is the first standalone freebie featuring Haruhi and Tamaki in 15 years, and the new art marks a rare return to the series by Bisco Hatori for the magazine's 50th anniversary celebration.
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Rakuda's Shujinkō no Osananajimi ga, Wakiyaku no Ore ni Guiguikuru Light Novels Get Manga
The manga adaptation extends Rakuda's reach beyond his established Ore wo Suki na no wa Omae Dake ka yo franchise, bringing a newer and already award-ranked series to a visual format.
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Kazumi Yamashita's Twisted Sisters Manga Gets Live-Action TV Series
The adaptation marks NHK's first live-action drama based on Yamashita's work and brings a family mystery premise to a primetime slot.
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Kogattuo and Ichika Kino Launch World Wide Web Miko! Manga on Shonen Jump+
The series brings a period-meets-modern premise to Shonen Jump+ with simultaneous English release on MANGA Plus, a standard but notable treatment for a new title from a creator with prior licensed work.
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I Left My A-Rank Party Manga Enters Final Arc
The manga is concluding its run after four years, marking a narrative endpoint for a series that also spawned a 2025 anime with a second season already announced.
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Super Robot Wars OG Comic Chapter 83 Launches With Shadow Mirror 2
The chapter advances the comic adaptation of The Inspector arc, revealing more of Vindel's parallel-world powers and his unexplained motives.
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Hero'S Web Renews With Free Ticket Missions And Wait-For-Free Feature
The update shifts HERO'S Web toward a gamified, social-driven free reading model that rewards daily engagement and sharing rather than a pure subscription or ad-based system.
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Korean Occult Film Exhuma Gets Maengjong Webtoon Spinoff
The webtoon extends Exhuma's occult mythology into a new medium, capitalizing on the film's domestic box office success with over 10 million admissions.
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Fanfare / Ponent Mon to Reprint Manga by Jiro Taniguchi, Hideo Azuma, Kiriko Nananan
The reprints bring back out-of-print English editions of three acclaimed manga creators, with Taniguchi's mountaineering epic getting a timed release tied to a real-world anniversary.
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Robinson Haruhara and Taishi Tsutsui Launch New Manga Animal Signal
The collaboration pairs two Jump veterans at a moment when both have recently ended their previous series, giving the magazine a new comedy title from proven creators.
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Journal With Witch Review Explores Sorrow and Personality
The review highlights Journal with Witch as a rare manga that treats introversion as a settled adult trait rather than a phase to overcome, and it examines how personality differences drive the story's central conflict without resorting to melodrama.
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Midori Loves My Sister Manga Gets Live-Action Film Opening December 4
The adaptation brings a currently running shōjo manga to the screen with a director and writer experienced in live-action romance adaptations, and casts a member of a major idol group in the lead role.
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Access Limits Fuel Manga Piracy Worldwide, Report Says
The report shifts the piracy debate from cost to access, suggesting that legal manga services lose readers not because they charge too much, but because they are too slow and too regionally restricted.
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Japan Digital Manga Sales Growth Slows to Record Low 2.9%
The 1.5% second-half growth rate signals that digital manga, which has been the primary driver of the industry's expansion, may be approaching a saturation point in Japan.
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