Manga artist Seima Taniguchi announced on their X (formerly Twitter) account last Friday that their and author Masaya Hokazono‘s Pumpkin Night manga will resume serialization on August 19, over a year after it went on hiatus.

The manga went on hiatus in April 2025 to allow Taniguchi to recover their health.

Manga Planet publishes the series in English and describes the story:

Don’t read this at night! High school girl Asumi is more intrigued than terrified by the mysterious “Pumpkin Night” account that follows her social media profile. Asami follows back in curiosity, only to immediately regret it when Pumpkin Night comes to get her… Who is the face behind Pumpkin Night, and what led them to embark on this bloody rampage of revenge?

The series briefly went on hiatus in May 2021 and returned in July that same year. The manga’s second part ended in December 2023. Hokazono and Taniguchi launched the third part of the manga in January 2024.

Hokazono and Taniguchi launched the manga on the Manga Life Win website in 2016 and restarted serialization on LINE Manga app in August 2019. LINE Digital Frontier published the manga’s 10th compiled book volume in December 2024. Hokazono and Nao Kurebayashi launched the Naoko ~Pumpkin Night Gaiden~ manga prequel in LINE Manga in June 2020.

Hokazono serialized the Inugami manga in Kodansha‘s Afternoon magazine from 1996 to 2002 with 14 volumes. Hokazono later drew a new version of the manga with modifications titled Inugami Kai for 10 volumes. Manga Planet is publishing Hokazono’s Inugami Kai and Doctor Mordrid manga in English.

Source: Seima Taniguchi‘s X/Twitter account

The stage play based on Itaru Bonnoki‘s The Vampire Dies in No Time manga will get a revival run at Tokyo’s Theater H from November 20-29.

Daiki Murakami wrote the script, directed, and wrote the lyrics for the original 2023 show. He returns in the same roles. Shū Kanematsu is composing the music.

Ikkei Yamamoto reprises his role as the vampire Draluc.

Hiroki Suzuki plays vampire-hunter Ronald.

The cast also includes:

• Arisa Sonohara as Hinaichi
• Shin Nikaidō as Tо̄ Handa
• Teruma as Fukuma
• Naoki Shigematsu as Satetsu
• Kaname Futaba as Shot
• Ryōhei Suzuki as Senya Siriski
• Aya Akane as Maria
• Reina Tasaki as Ta Chan
• Youta О̄mi as Medoki
• Shota Senga as Homerun Batter
• Saya Chinen as Koyuki
• Urashima as Boboo
• Oh-Se as Ydan Ojisan
• Takuya Kon as Draus

Images of the full cast in costume are on the play’s website.

The original stage play ran at The Galaxy Theatre in Tokyo in June 2023.

Bonnoki launched The Vampire Dies in No Time in Weekly Shōnen Champion in June 2015. Akita Publishing shipped the 26th compiled book volume on February 6.

The manga took several breaks in the last few years, several of which were due to Bonnoki’s health.

Creator Bonnoki revealed in October 2023 that following testing, he had been diagnosed with ossification of the ligamentum flavum, or OLF. OLF is the thickening of the ligament in the spinal column that can lead to the narrowing of the spinal canal, which can cause nerve damage. Bonnoki stated that he had constant back pain for a few months. He added that the surgery procedure would be difficult due to the affected location in the body.

The anime adaptation’s first season premiered in Japan in October 2021, and Funimation streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. The first season had 12 episodes. The second season premiered in January 2023. The anime is streaming on Crunchyroll.

Sources: The Vampire Dies in No Time stage play’s website, Comic Natalie