Paneguma Launches Manga Adaptation of Daken's The Castle of Canaan Novel
The adaptation brings Daken's established web novel and light novel to a new visual format on a major digital manga platform.
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Paneguma has launched a manga adaptation of Daken's light novel The Castle of Canaan on Overlap's Comic Gardo platform. The story follows three thieves who accidentally kidnap a princess in a world where an empire's guns and artillery have conquered magic and sword. Daken's web novel began in May 2024, and the light novel shipped in July 2025.
The manga adaptation of Daken's light novel The Castle of Canaan launched on Overlap's Comic Gardo platform on Tuesday. Paneguma handles the adaptation. The story is set in a world where the Aizen Empire has used guns and artillery to conquer a realm once ruled by magic and sword. Three thieves rebel against the empire and accidentally kidnap the princess of a fallen kingdom.
Daken first posted the story as a web novel on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in May 2024. Overlap published the light novel with illustrations by Akemi Mikoto in July 2025. Daken is also the author of The Wicked Princess and Her Twelve Eyes and Who Killed the Hero? light novels.
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