Viz Media has licensed Kyousuke Motomi’s Registry of the Divine, and it isn’t waiting around. The publisher announced the license on Wednesday, November 11, and the first English chapter goes live on the Viz Manga app a day later, on Thursday, November 12.
The Japanese title is Yaoyoruzu Toriatsukai Setsumeisho. Shogakukan runs it in Betsucomi, the same shoujo magazine where Motomi built her reputation.
A ten month gap between Japan and English
Motomi launched the series in Betsucomi on January 13 of this year. Shogakukan shipped the first collected volume on October 26. English readers get chapter one roughly ten months after Japanese readers did, with volume releases presumably following the Japanese schedule.
That’s quick for a Betsucomi title, and it says something about how Viz is treating the series. Motomi’s last long-running work, Queen’s Quality, ended in February 2025 and ran to 25 volumes. A publisher who watched that series sell 3.7 million copies has an obvious reason to move fast on the follow-up.
What the manga is about
Shiori is an ordinary college student who has been able to see strange things since she was a child. Her employer goes bankrupt, her job is about to disappear, and then someone introduces her to a “certain job.”
The clients are the problem, or the point. Every Japanese god, goddess and deity is a customer. Viz’s description has Shiori and a character named Jin dealing with gods, vengeful spirits, legends and creatures of folklore, investigating them, protecting them, and in some cases exterminating them.
So it’s a supernatural procedural with a shoujo backbone, which is a narrower slot than it sounds. Most deity-of-the-week manga sit in shounen magazines and lean on action. Putting the casework in front of a college-aged heroine who can already see the things everyone else can’t is closer to the older Betsucomi playbook than to anything currently running in Weekly Shounen Jump.
Motomi’s career, and an anime on the way
Motomi’s back catalogue is already familiar to English readers. Dengeki Daisy ran in Monthly Betsucomi from 2007 to 2013 and closed at 16 volumes. Viz published it through the Shojo Beat imprint. Beast Master and QQ Sweeper also came out in English, and QQ Sweeper led directly into Queen’s Quality, which Viz also released.
The timing here is hard to ignore. Dengeki Daisy is getting a television anime that debuts in January 2027 and will run for two consecutive cours. That’s a full half year of broadcast tied to a series that ended more than a decade ago, and it will put Motomi’s name in front of viewers who have never opened one of her books.
A new manga arriving in English a few months before that anime airs is good scheduling on Viz’s part, whether it was planned that way or not. Shoujo series built on gods and spirits are having a moment on screen as well: Otaku Vampire’s Love Bite, from the creator of Kamisama Kiss, is also getting a TV anime.
Where to read it
Registry of the Divine is on the Viz Manga app starting November 12. Viz hasn’t announced a print edition or a date for the first English volume. Given that the Japanese volume one only shipped in late October, an English collection in 2027 seems likely, but that’s a guess and not something the publisher has confirmed.
The app also carries the rest of Motomi’s catalogue in English, so anyone who wants to start with Dengeki Daisy before the anime lands has somewhere to go. Viz has been adding licenses at a steady clip this year, including The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom, which also landed in English ahead of its anime.
Why it matters
Shoujo manga about gods and spirits tends to get filed as a niche inside a niche, and licensing decisions usually follow that logic: a volume or two a year, no simulpub, no rush. Viz is doing the opposite here. Same-week English chapters for a Betsucomi series that debuted ten months ago is a bet that Motomi’s existing readership will follow her into a new story, and that the Dengeki Daisy anime will bring in more.
Whether that bet pays off is a question for 2027. For now, the practical detail is simple. Chapter one is up, and it is free to read on Viz’s app if you have an account.
Source: Anime News Network, citing Viz Media.
Featured image: Cover art for Kyousuke Motomi’s Registry of the Divine, via Anime News Network.
