Inio Asano's short story collection Before Dawn and the End of the World is scheduled for March 4 from Abrams ComicArts' Kana imprint after a delay from November. Separately, Asano has spent a month building a 3D model of a rural town for a one-chapter manga whose title and details remain unannounced.
Abrams ComicArts' Kana imprint moved Inio Asano's short story collection Before Dawn and the End of the World to March 4, back from a November date. The anthology collects ten stories first serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits between 2005 and 2008. Those stories had not previously appeared in English, so the book is the first English-language access to this run of Asano's early short work.
The collection draws on material from before the period covered by Asano's longer serials. Ten stories make up the book, all of them originally published in Big Comic Spirits across a four-year span. The Kana edition is the only English release of these pieces noted in the coverage.
On a separate front, Asano said he spent a month building a three-dimensional rural town for a one-chapter manga. He posted a video of the model on X but said he had not finished a single page of the draft. The project's title and other details are unannounced.
The two threads sit at different stages. One has a release date and a confirmed publisher imprint. The other has a finished model, no draft pages, and no window. Coverage of Asano around these stories is limited to those two items, so the picture of his current output rests on an undated one-shot and a delayed collection.
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Abrams ComicArts' Kana imprint delayed Inio Asano's short story collection Before Dawn and the End of the World to March 4. The anthology, previously set for November, collects ten stories originally serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits from 2005 to 2008. The stories were previously unpublished in English.
Manga creator Inio Asano reported spending a month building a three-dimensional rural town for a one-chapter manga project. He posted a video of the model on X but said he has not yet completed a single page of the draft. The project's title and details remain unannounced.