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Masaki Ando's Mojiponika! Manga Ends in Afternoon on November 25
Masaki Ando announced on Friday that his Mojiponika! manga will end in the next issue of Kodansha's Afternoon magazine on November 25.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Why it matters
Mojiponika! closes after roughly a year and a half of serialization, with the third compiled volume, released August 21, standing as the final collection Kodansha has published so far.
Key Facts
- Masaki Ando's Mojiponika! manga ends in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine on November 25.
- Ando launched Mojiponika! in Afternoon in May 2025.
- Kodansha published the manga's first compiled volume in October 2025 and the third volume on August 21.
- Mojiponika! follows Tsumugu, the son of an embroidery shop owner, who stitches kanji onto a tokkofuku for exchange student Gina.
The comedy follows Tsumugu, the son of an embroidery shop owner, who is paid by Gina, a foreign exchange student devoted to kanji and yakuza films, to stitch kanji onto her tokkofuku. Ando launched the manga in Afternoon in May 2025.
Kodansha published the first compiled volume in October 2025 and the third on August 21. The series ran in Afternoon, the same magazine that carried Ando's earlier work in a different publisher's lineup. Before Mojiponika!, Ando drew Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki, which ran in Ichijinsha's Comic Rex from May 2016 to September 2022 and inspired a four-season television anime, all four of which Crunchyroll streamed as they aired in Japan.
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- Anime News Network Masaki Andō's Mojiponika! Manga Ends on November 25