Moscow 2160 is done. The manga’s fifth collected volume ships on December 25, and Amazon Japan lists that book as the final one. The series also wrapped up serialization in Square Enix’s Monthly Big Gangan on October 23, which is today.
The manga comes from writer Kumo Kagyu and artist Kōtarō Sekine, with Noboru Kannatsuki credited for character design. It launched in Monthly Big Gangan in December 2022, which gives it roughly four years and five volumes. Square Enix shipped volume 4 in December 2025.
What it is
Yen Press licenses the manga and the light novel in English, and its description sets the scene better than any summary: history took a different turn, the Soviet Union never fell, and the Cold War has dragged on for two centuries. Cyborg thieves work the streets, power is traded in secret, and Moscow has decayed into a city where the ordinary rules were lost to war long ago.
Into that walks a man known as the “Janitor,” carrying antique machine guns and answering to nobody. Kagyu wrote a light novel version himself, published by SB Creative in June 2023, so the story exists in two forms in Japan.
Kagyu’s other work
Kagyu is best known for Goblin Slayer, the dark fantasy novel series SB Creative began publishing in February 2016. Kōsuke Kurose launched a manga adaptation in Big Gangan in May 2016 and it is still running. Yen Press has both. The first anime season aired in October 2018 and the second followed in October 2023, with Crunchyroll streaming both.
His newer project, Blade & Bastard, is the one with real momentum right now. Kagyu writes it with illustrator so-bin, Drecom publishes it, and the sixth volume came out on March 10. An anime adaptation premieres in 2027. A manga version by Makoto Fugetsu launched on Drecom’s site in June 2023, reached eight volumes on March 10, and Yen Press put out volume 4 in English on June 23.
Moscow 2160 never got that treatment. No anime, no spinoffs, no side stories. It ran quietly for four years in a magazine that carries Goblin Slayer‘s manga and a lot of other dark fantasy, and now it ends at five volumes.
Why a five-volume ending is worth noting
Monthly Big Gangan is one of the few Square Enix magazines still running serialized manga that get physical collections on a steady schedule, and a title ending there usually means the author brought it to a planned close rather than a cancellation. Five volumes over four years is a normal, healthy run for a monthly series. Kagyu telling the story he intended to tell and stopping is the likeliest reading, and nothing in the listings suggests otherwise.
For English readers, Yen Press has not announced a final volume date, and it is usually a few volumes behind. If you want the whole thing in print, the Japanese edition finishes in December. The light novel, also from Kagyu, remains available and covers the same ground from the prose side.
Short monthly series wrapping on schedule is the norm this season rather than the exception. Black Summoner closed at 200 chapters this month, and a handful of other titles have announced final volumes for the same stretch of the calendar.
What Kagyu has next is already public. Blade & Bastard‘s anime is the biggest item on his schedule, and a writer who finishes one series while another goes into production is in a comfortable position.
Source: Anime News Network, citing Amazon Japan and Monthly Big Gangan.
Featured image: Volume 1 cover of Kumo Kagyu and Kōtarō Sekine’s Moscow 2160, via Anime News Network / Square Enix.
