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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The Summer of You Boys-Love Manga Gets Live-Action Series
The adaptation brings a completed, English-licensed BL manga to live-action, with a cast reveal and a tight release window of under two months.
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Zoku Thermae Romae Manga Resumes Serialization After 8-Month Hiatus
The return of Zoku Thermae Romae after an eight-month break signals that Yamazaki is continuing the sequel series, which had an uncertain status, and the shift in focus to Satsuki's perspective expands the story beyond Lucius's time-traveling adventures.
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Viz and MLB Players Launch GalaXic Baseball League Comic Series
This is the first intellectual property to include active MLB players, blending professional sports licensing with manga-style storytelling through a major digital-first release.
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Kiminori Wakasugi's That Time I Got Reincarnated in PES Manga Ends
The manga ran for only three weeks, making it one of the shortest serialized runs for a creator best known for the long-running Detroit Metal City.
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Hiro Mashima's Dead Rock Manga Goes on Hiatus, Returns With New Arc This Winter
The hiatus and arc transition mark a structural shift for Mashima's latest series, which has been running since 2023 and now pauses to reset for a new story phase.
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Kadokawa Launches World Manga Atelier to Support Overseas Creators
The initiative formalizes a direct pipeline for non-Japanese creators to receive editorial feedback and potentially publish with Kadokawa, addressing a structural gap in the industry's global expansion.
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Hajime Isayama Says Attack on Titan Ending Felt Insincere
The creator's own admission of insincerity adds a new layer to the long-running debate over the ending, directly tying its perceived flaws to his personal conflict between the original vision and the character's reception.
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Junji Ito's The Long Hair in the Attic Gets Live-Action Film
This marks the first live-action adaptation of the story since a Japanese film in 2000, and the first time a Junji Ito property is being produced as a multinational co-production between Japan, Thailand, and South Korea.
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Mushishi Original Art Exhibition Announced for Hiroshima PARCO
The exhibition offers a rare public look at original manga art from a series that won major awards and inspired two TV anime seasons and a live-action film.
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Tetsuya Saruwatari's TOUGH: Second Chapter Volume 1 Released
The release marks the first collected volume of Saruwatari's latest entry in the long-running Tough series, which began serialization in Weekly Playboy.
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The Apothecary Diaries, Jormungand, and Black Lagoon Lead June GX Lineup
The issue bundles three major series milestones-a four-month stand campaign for The Apothecary Diaries, a 20th anniversary Jormungand exhibition, and an upgraded 25th anniversary Black Lagoon exhibition-into a single promotional push.
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Manga Mavericks Licenses Zawayuki Taki's Tie Me Up, Stare Me Down
Manga Mavericks, a relatively young North American publisher, is expanding its catalog with a niche BDSM romance title that completed its Japanese run less than a year ago, suggesting a strategy of picking up recently concluded series with targeted audience appeal.
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I Don't Know Which Is Love Yuri Manga to End With Volume 8
The series is one of the longer-running yuri harem comedies from Monthly Comic Cune, and its end at eight volumes gives the story a defined arc rather than indefinite serialization.
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Bocchi the Rock Manga Resumes Serialization After Health Hiatus
The return of the manga removes the last uncertainty around the series' future after a months-long health-related pause, keeping the source material active alongside the announced second anime season.
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You and I Are Polar Opposites Manga Ends With Volume 8
The manga's conclusion arrives as the TV anime adaptation is set to premiere in January 2026, with a second season already announced for July 2026.
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WEBTOON and Paramount Launch Two Original Star Trek Webcomic Series
The partnership marks Star Trek's first expansion into the vertical-scroll webcomic format, with two series that introduce original characters and YA romance and mystery tones alongside canonical settings.
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Paradon Vol. 1 Released With Soccer Shop KAMO Collaboration
Paradon is the rare soccer manga to center a reserve goalkeeper rather than a star striker, and the KAMO tie-in signals Shogakukan's push to reach actual soccer fans beyond the usual manga audience.
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My Super-Cute Black Mage Uses Mind Reading to Subvert the Tsundere Trope
The manga's early reveal of the male lead's true feelings through mind reading offers a structural solution to a common shojo frustration, letting the story skip the usual denial phase and build conflict from external prejudice instead.
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