Manga

manga 1 sources · Oct 4

Manga Artist Eiji Hashimoto Confirms Full Hearing Loss In Right Ear

Hashimoto ties the hearing loss to overwork and says he must work without excessive strain, which puts the schedule of Rappa: Yankee Ninpu Cho and any future Chiruran work on a slower footing than the magazine calendar implies.

Anime News Network
manga 1 sources · Oct 4

Akira Failing In Love Tops 1 Million Copies Worldwide

A series that only started in 2024 has cleared the million mark by its eighth volume, which suggests its circulation is outrunning the pace of its own print run rather than coasting on a long backlist.

Anime News Network
mangaannouncement 2 sources · Oct 3

Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki Light Novels End With 12th Volume

The series ran for roughly a decade across print, manga, and two anime seasons, so the 12th volume closes a domestic light novel run whose English editions and streaming catalog remain available to readers outside Japan.

Anime News Network, Anime Corner
mangaannouncement 2 sources · Oct 3

My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex Light Novel Ends at Volume 14

The series reaches its conclusion nine years after Kamishiro first posted it to Kakuyomu, closing a run that began as a web novel before Kadokawa's print editions, a ComicWalker manga, and a 2022 television anime extended it across multiple formats.

Anime News Network, The Indonesian Anime Times
manga 3 sources · Oct 3

GANTZ Author Hiroya Oku Reveals Yuki Ikeda Pen Name Was His Own

The pen name was itself the marketing device, and Oku's admission lands one episode before the anime finale, after the manga had already completed without the credit being corrected.

Denfaminicogamer, Anime Anime, Otakuma Economic News
manga 1 sources · Oct 3

Luca, the Dragon Vet Will End at Eight Volumes

Announced two days after the seventh volume shipped and with the final arc already running, the ending leaves Kodansha USA's print run of the English edition roughly an arc behind the Japanese finish line it will now have to close out.

Anime News Network
mangaannouncement 1 sources · Oct 3

Saint Seiya: Dark Wing and Garagarapom Both End in November

A single issue of Champion RED carries the end of one of its longer-running spinoffs and one of its newer serializations at once, and both close at a point where the collected volumes are still coming out.

Anime News Network
mangalicense 1 sources · Oct 3

K Manga Adds No-Clipping My Way to Supremacy as Simulpub

The simulpub addition gives K MANGA a running chapter release for a series whose light novel and manga runs are already tied to a 2027 television anime, keeping the adaptation's source material available in English as that production moves forward.

Anime News Network
mangaannouncement 5 sources · Oct 1

Kadokawa and Marvel Announce Spider-Man Manga Set in Shibuya

Marvel's new Asia Originals editorial office under C.B. Cebulski in Tokyo arrives as Shueisha's long-running Marvel manga licensing arrangement ends, leaving the Japanese publishing pipeline for Marvel characters in new hands.

Anime News Network, KAI-YOU, Dengeki Hobby Web, and 1 more
mangareview 1 sources · Sep 30

Nebula's Civilization Review Finds Depth In A Familiar Isekai Premise

The review argues the series distinguishes itself from a crowded isekai field by shifting focus from the transported player onto the civilization he guides, with theology and free will carrying the narrative rather than the game-world premise alone.

Beneath the Tangles
mangabusiness 3 sources · Sep 30

Shueisha Ends Editing Contract with Shihei Lin

The end of the Mix Green outsourcing deal removes an outside editing operation from Shonen Jump+ at a time when three of the platform's most visible titles were run through it, and Shueisha has not said who picks up that work.

Denfaminicogamer, KAI-YOU
mangarelease 1 sources · Sep 28

Super Robot Wars OG Web Comic Enters Shadow Mirror Arc

The episode pushes the comic into the Shadow Mirror's internal history, the ground the OG games have largely left off-page, while Volume 11 keeps the print run current with episodes 75 through 81.

Dengeki Hobby Web
manga 1 sources · Sep 24

Hiroya Oku Confirms He Wrote Thunder 3 as Yuki Ikeda

The confirmation turns years of reader suspicion about shared art style into a stated fact, and it lands while Oku is telling interviewers he plans to retire after The Sweet Sixty Princess.

Animehunch
mangareview 1 sources · Sep 22

Firefly Wedding Opens With A Kidnapping And A Marriage Offer

The premiere leans on hostage tropes and heavy trigger warnings rather than the arranged-marriage romance its setup suggests, which leaves the series' direction unsettled after one episode.

Beneath the Tangles
manga 2 sources · Sep 21

Sui Ishida Details Exhausting Weekly Schedule Behind Tokyo Ghoul

Ishida's account puts specific hours and meeting times on a production load the fandom had previously known about only in general terms, and it lands as his current manga Choujin X runs on an irregular release schedule rather than a weekly one.

Animehunch