September 9 Dubbed 'Attack on Titan Day' by Anniversary Association
The franchise is formalizing its anniversary as an unofficial holiday, pairing the designation with a key visual and a livestream featuring the main cast.
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Manga
Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You Episode 9 Puts a Marriage Rumor in Play
The episode uses a potential marriage reveal to test Yamada's true feelings, marking a direct turn from the series' usual long-distance miscommunication about Sasaki's dual identity.
Beneath the Tangles
emaqi Adds 8 New Manga Including Bloody Sugar Laughs at the Night
The September slate expands emaqi's English catalog with a mix of fantasy, comedy, and workplace titles, several debuting on the premium service.
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Minami's Lover Manga Gets Musical Stage Play in December
The musical marks another adaptation of the long-running manga, but is notable for changing the lead high school couple Minami and Chiyoko into a male couple, a reinterpretation of the source material that has been adapted multiple times since the 1980s.
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Nao Maita Will Launch New Manga in Ciao on December 28
The new series arrives the same month Shining! ends, as its final compiled volume ships on December 25, continuing Maita's steady output for Ciao.
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Shugo Chara! 20th Anniversary Exhibition Key Visual Unveiled
The exhibition is the first original art show for the Shugo Chara! franchise, and the new PEACH-PIT illustration confirms the creator's direct involvement in the anniversary event.
Denfaminicogamer
Oedo Fire Slayer Manga Goes on Hiatus as Artist Is Hospitalized
The hiatus pauses the manga adaptation of Shogo Imamura's novel while the television anime is currently airing, leaving the manga's schedule uncertain.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Exhibition Offers Egyptian God Cards as Bonus Merch
The exhibition bundles the iconic manga-original Egyptian God cards as collectible merchandise, but explicitly bars them from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, making them display pieces rather than playable cards.
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Ten Kashiwa and Kai Noshigami Launch New Manga
The new series pairs Kashiwa, whose prior manga just concluded, with Noshigami, who recently worked on a spinoff tied to Yuki Kaji's anniversary project.
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Atsu Benino's Hokago Voca-Ken de! Manga Ends in Weekly Shonen Sunday
The manga's short run, ending just eight months after its launch, closes out a series that was still in its first compiled volume.
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Ninja vs. Gokudo Author Apologizes for Hiatus, Cites Mental Health
The apology offers a concrete update on the manga's return timeline, with the author stating he has completed the next chapter's manuscript and is working through the following one.
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Beneath the Tangles Reader's Corner Covers Six New Volumes
The roundup positions The Color of the End Vol. 4 as a standout and frames the Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture EX side stories as essential reading that adds warmth to the main series.
Beneath the Tangles
MangaPlaza Passes 1 Million Users in Fifth Year of U.S. Operation
MangaPlaza's growth shows a female-focused digital manga platform can build a large U.S. audience even as a cousin service, Manga Mirai, shuts down and migrates its content to the platform.
Animenomics
Suzuki Sensei's 99-Yen Kindle Sale Puts Its Middle School Allegory in Focus
The sale is the hook, but the column's real point is that the manga's strange intensity comes from the author shrinking his own adult problems to middle school size, which is why the class discussions carry so much weight.
ASCII.jp
Shueisha's Manga Mee Opens Permanent Submission Window on Nola
Shueisha's shoujo and josei app is formalizing a standing pipeline for original IP discovery, pairing Manga Mee's editorial investment with Nola's base of over 700,000 writers.
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Mike Melby Talks Opanchu Usagi's Call of Duty Luck and Her Anime Roots
Melby, who now leads licensing at Octas, frames Opanchu Usagi's Call of Duty crossover as fun precisely because most of the shooter's audience does not know her, and his own path from Viz to Crunchyroll tracks how anime licensing went mainstream.
Anime Herald
With You, Our Love Will Make It Through Manga Ends with 13th Volume
The announcement sets a firm end point for a series that has run since 2019 and already received an anime adaptation, closing out the story with its 13th volume.
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Toshiko Machida's Hanako-gari Manga Ends in Three Volumes
The series wraps in three volumes after roughly a year of serialization, with the final volume shipping September 9.
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Manga Up! Global Adds Escape from the Seventh Night, Daughter of the Dragon God in English
The additions widen Manga Up! Global's English catalog with one completed Square Enix mystery and one ongoing series that also has a print release planned for March 2027.
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The Summer Hikaru Died Manga to End in 2 Chapters on October 20
The October 20 finale closes a series whose anime ranked second in Anime Corner's Anime of the Year vote, 0.09% behind Takopi's Original Sin, a measure of the franchise's reach beyond its manga readership.
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PEACH-PIT 25th Anniversary Exhibition Announces Nagoya Venue
The Nagoya stop extends the anniversary exhibition's reach beyond its original venue, giving the manga artist unit's fans in central Japan a dedicated window to see the retrospective.
Nijimen
CLLENN Launches Six New Manga Series for August 2026
The August slate shows CLLENN expanding its genre range from revenge fantasy to psychological suspense across its labels.
ASCII.jp
Dead Internet Theory Spreads to Manga as AI Content Fills the Web
The same forces that hollowed out independent web communities now press on manga discussion spaces, where AI-written posts and comments are becoming harder to distinguish from human ones.
Japan Powered
Sayonara no Iikata Nante Shiranai Novel Series Gets Manga by Yukiko Seike
The adaptation brings the Kamisaki series to manga readers on Comic Days, following the franchise's continued expansion since its 2019 relaunch and the recent release of its 11th volume.
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