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REMOW announced the television anime of Satoshi Mizukami’s Spirit Circle on Thursday. It runs 18 episodes, airs in Japan and streams worldwide starting in December, and it arrives as the final directorial work of Tatsuo Sato. Sato died in April…
Witch on the Holy Night is getting a manga adaptation. Kodansha’s Weekly Shōnen Magazine announced it in its 49th issue, released November 4, and the first chapter runs in the next issue on November 11. Keigo Maki is drawing it.…
The December issue of Shueisha’s Jump SQ., out November 4, confirmed that Kemono Jihen is close to the end. The magazine says the manga’s climax is “imminent.” The phrasing is loose, and the magazine did not explain it. “Imminent” could…
The December issue of Shueisha’s Jump SQ. confirmed on November 4 that Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign ends in the magazine’s next issue, which goes on sale December 4. The manga has run since 2012, when Takaya Kagami and…
Comic CMOA is partly back. NTT Solmare said on Thursday that its manga service has resumed some functions after two weeks of emergency maintenance, and the list of what works is shorter than the list of what does not. Working…
The manga adaptation of Urban Myth Dissolution Center has finished. Emi Ishikawa announced on X that Toshi Densetsu Kaitai Center: Parallel File ended in the December issue of Shueisha’s Ribon, which went on sale Monday. The series launched in Ribon…
Kyūri Yamada has a new manga, and it starts with the ground moving. Kodansha’s Comic Days announced on Sunday that Nanabun no Survivor (The One-Seventh Survivor) launches on the platform on Monday, with a second serialization on Kodansha’s YanMaga Web…
Kuraku Ichikawa’s Drama Queen is ending. The creator announced on X on Monday that the Shonen Jump+ series has four chapters left, which is the only number in the announcement and the only timeline anyone gets. The manga launched on…
Five webtoons have won the 2026 “Today’s Korean Comics” awards, and all five are serialised on Naver WEBTOON. The Korea Cartoonist Association and South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced the winners on October 20. The list: A…
Opera is done with paper. The editorial department at Akaneshinsha announced on X that the magazine’s 100th issue will be its last in print, and that the first digital-only issue will arrive in spring 2027. That 100th issue shipped on…
Norihiro Yagi has a new manga. BARTLET FAIRY BASSLET started on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ on Monday, and the second chapter arrives on November 9. The English version began the same day. MANGA Plus is running the series chapter by chapter,…
Shōta Kōno’s Nightmare of Oveja Negra arrived on Shonen Jump+ and MANGA Plus on the same day, with the English version going live on MANGA Plus alongside the Japanese release. The first chapter landed Tuesday for English readers and Wednesday…