Manga, manhwa and light novel news — new licenses, volume releases, serialisations, endings, adaptations and publisher announcements.
Seven Seas announced five new licenses on Wednesday, spread across its manga, light novel, audiobook and Boys Love lines. The headline pick is Sagrada Reset, the light novel that already has a 2017 TV anime behind it in Japan. Here…
Jaku Amano’s A-DO will end on November 18. The November issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Young Magazine announced the final chapter this week, placing it in the magazine’s December issue. That is a shorter goodbye than the series looked like it…
Pandora Hearts is getting a third stage musical. PandoraHearts Retrace III -Reverse corte- will run at Theater H in Tokyo from September 17 to 26, 2027, then move to Sankei Hall Breeze in Osaka for October 2 and 3. The…
Manta will open its platform to independent creators on November 16. The webtoon and manga app, run by the Korean publisher RIDI, announced the change on October 7 and framed it as a way for self-publishing creators to reach new…
Hikaru Nakamura’s Black Night Parade ended on Monday. The final chapter ran in the November issue of Shueisha’s Ultra Jump, and Nakamura’s official X account marked the occasion by promising two things in the next issue: a side story, and…
Manga UP! Global closed out October with seven new English titles in ten days, taking the service’s total for the month to thirteen. The run started October 22 with Crimson Prince and ended October 31 with a ghost-story comedy that…
Yama Wayama’s Hoshi in the Girls’ Garden took the top spot on Oricon’s monthly comic ranking for September 2026. The fifth volume sold an estimated 182,399 print copies, and it did it in a fairly short window: the book shipped…
Shochiku is making a live-action film of Mizuki Hoshino’s Fukakōryoku no I Love You. The company announced the project along with a Japanese release date of March 5, 2027, and confirmed both leads. Kōta Nomura plays Saku Wataya. Juri Kōsaka…
yoruhashi is one of those manga authors whose name travels further than any single title. Most readers meet the work first, through the anime of The Kingdoms of Ruin, and only later work out that the same person wrote and…
Witch Hat Atelier finished the summer as the eighth best-selling manga on BookWalker’s English and global store, according to figures a BookWalker representative shared with Anime Corner. Across the platform’s full catalog, light novels included, Kamome Shirahama’s series placed 14th…
yoruhashi has a new series, and it starts this week. Tatarigatachi -Dochakushin Geigeki Gakuin- begins in Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion on October 22, in the magazine’s 47th issue of 2026. The announcement ran in issue 46, which went on…
Kadokawa’s Sneaker Bunko imprint confirmed on Friday that Ryo Mizuno’s Record of Lodoss War: The Crown of the Covenant (Lodoss-to Senki: Seiyaku no Hokan) novel series is back in production. Volume 2 is still some distance away, but the imprint…