Toshiko Machida's Hanako-gari Manga Ends in Three Volumes
The series wraps in three volumes after roughly a year of serialization, with the final volume shipping September 9.
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Toshiko Machida's Hanako-gari manga ended with its final chapter on Kodansha's Pocket Magazine platform on August 27. The series launched in September 2025 and ran for three compiled volumes. Kodansha shipped the second volume on March 9 and will release the third and final volume on September 9. The story follows a Tokyo government organization that claims to protect spirits called Hanako but actually hunts and disposes of them.
The final chapter closes a series that ran for roughly a year on Pocket Magazine. Kodansha will release the third and final compiled volume on September 9, following the second volume shipped on March 9. The story is set in a world where spirits run rampant, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government establishes an organization meant to search for and protect these spirits, renamed Hanako. The truth is the government hunts and disposes of them. Machida's previous manga, The Demon Consort: "I Love You" Are Frightening Words, ended in April 2025, and Yen Press publishes that series in English.
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