Manga, manhwa and light novel news — new licenses, volume releases, serialisations, endings, adaptations and publisher announcements.
Tetsuo Hara has drawn a Pokémon card. The Fist of the North Star creator and The Pokémon Company announced it on Friday, November 6, and the card is the “Maxie’s Passion” Special Art Rare from the Hadō Seeker expansion, which…
Takeichi Abaraya has a new series. The creator behind the Odd Taxi manga adaptations announced on Wednesday that Rematch With You will begin on Akita Shoten’s YanChan Web later this month. What the new series is about Going by Abaraya’s…
Spy×Family is getting a fourth anime season. It is also getting another film. Both were announced on Sunday, November 8, 2026, and both are scheduled for 2027, with the movie heading to Japanese theaters. The announcement came from the anime’s…
Kodama Kawajiri’s essay manga about doing as little as possible is getting a live-action series, and the format is as lazy as the subject. I’m Kodama Kawashiri will run as 25 short episodes on Hulu in Japan, starting January 11,…
Titan Manga has picked up five more series, all scheduled for English release between May and August 2027. The publisher announced the batch on Thursday, covering a supernatural comedy, a fantasy academy story, a reality-show romance, a rock band drama…
Hisaya Nakajo’s Hana-Kimi turns 30 this year, and the anniversary is being marked with two productions instead of one. A new live-action television series airs on NTV from December 5, and the manga’s first ever stage play follows in February…
Watari Sakou’s Honey Trap Method is finished. The 121st issue of Kodansha’s Ane Friend revealed that the manga will end in the magazine’s next issue, out December 1. The second and final compiled volume follows digitally on January 20. Two…
The Lycoris Recoil short films are getting their own manga. Monthly Comic Flapper’s official X account announced on Thursday that Yasunori Bizen will launch an adaptation of Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. in the magazine’s February 2027 issue.…
Laid-Back Camp returns in April 2027. The anime’s official website posted the main trailer and a new key visual on Friday, and both confirm the spring premiere that had gone unannounced until now. The visual puts the full group at…
Shinchosha’s Kurage Bunch website announced on Friday that writer Miri Mikawa and artist Kairi Shimotsuki are launching a new manga called Ryū no Kuni Gensō, or Dragon Country Fantasy, on November 24. It is a pairing worth a second look.…
Sakamoto Holidays, the spinoff to Yuuto Suzuki’s Sakamoto Days, is heading toward its climax. Tetsu Ōkawa, who writes and draws the series, reported the news on Saturday. Ōkawa launched the spinoff in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in July 2024. Shueisha…
Make the Exorcist Fall in Love has started its final arc. The news came on the wraparound jacket band of volume 16, which Shueisha shipped on Wednesday. That is how a lot of manga endings get announced in Japan. No…