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Manga ‘Gabriel DropOut’ Concludes Serialization
The official X account for author Ukami announced on Sunday that the Gabriel DropOut manga will end in the October issue of Comic Dengeki Daioh “g” magazine, marking the end of the manga’s nearly 13-year run.
Ukami began serializing the supernatural comedy manga in Comic Dengeki Daioh “g” magazine in December 2013. ASCII Media Works published the 16th volume in September 2025.
A 12-episode television anime adaptation produced by Doga Kobo aired in Winter 2017, followed by a two-episode special anime released from March to May 2017. Crunchyroll simulcasted the anime with subtitles.
Yen Press licensed the manga in English in March 2017. The 15th volume went on sale in December 2025, with the 16th volume scheduled for a December 15 release.
Synopsis
For centuries, Heaven has required its young angels to live and study among humans in order to become full-fledged angels. This is no different for top-of-her-class Gabriel White Tenma, who believes it is her mission to be a great angel who will bring happiness to mankind. However, Gabriel grows addicted to video games on Earth and eventually becomes a hikikomori. Proclaiming herself a “Fallen Angel,” she is apathetic to everything else—much to the annoyance of Vignette April Tsukinose, a demon whom Gabriel befriended in her angelic early days on Earth.
Vignette’s attempts to revert Gabriel back to her previous self are in vain, as Gabriel shoots down any attempt to change her precious lifestyle. As they spend their time on Earth, they meet two eccentric personalities: the angel Raphiel Ainsworth Shiraha, Gabriel’s classmate with a penchant for sadism, and the demon Satanichia McDowell Kurumizawa, a clumsy self-proclaimed future ruler of the Underworld.
Gabriel DropOut follows these four friends’ comedic lives as they utterly fail to understand what it truly means to be a demon or an angel. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Source: ukami0 on X
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Writer Gwon Gyeoeul, artist SUOL’s series centers on otome game’s villainess trying to avoid death ending
Kakao’s Piccoma online manga and novel service announced on Sunday the end of the main story and the television anime adaptation of writer Gwon Gyeoeul and artist SUOL’s Villains Are Destined to Die (Akuyaku no Ending wa Shi nomi) webtoon.
©SUOL, Gwon Gyeoeul 2020 / D&C Media
The Tapas service describes the story:
This game’s got me obsessed! It’s like it’s taken over my life… wait—HARD MODE ACTIVATED. No-no-no-no-no! It has literally taken me and thrown me into the part of Penelope Eckhart. Love is easy as the heroine, but as the hated villain, I’m trying very hard not to die… at the hands of my brothers… the prince… a fork… every possible ending is death! This world is stacked against me, but can my wits and insider game knowledge score the affection of these male characters? Or the reset button???
Originally adapted from a web novel by Gwon Gyeoeul, Villains Are Destined to Die is part of the popular reincarnated-villainess romance fantasy genre and later became one of the Kakao Page platform’s most-read webcomics in South Korea. The original novel has surpassed 1.7 million views and 145,000 likes, while the webtoon recorded over 14.8 million views and 1.5 million likes.
Originally launched in 2020, the webtoon concluded its main story in chapter 214 on Kakao Page in South Korea in July, and the staff plans to return for a spinoff after taking a break. The English version is currently available on Tapas, where it has been serialized through Chapter 210.
Piccoma publishes the manga and also the novel by Gwon Gyeoeul in Japan. Kadokawa published the manga’s first compiled book volume in March 2022, and will release the 12th volume on November 17.
The franchise has also expanded into English print through Ize Press. The company is releasing the novel series in five volumes across print, eBook, and audio formats, and will release the fourth volume on September 15.
The webtoon adaptation remains one of Ize Press’ best-selling titles to date, underscoring the property’s strong international fanbase and ongoing momentum across formats. Ize Press will release the ninth volume on August 18.
Sources: PR Times, Comic Natalie
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The staff for Eiga Meitantei Precure! Fushigi na Niwa to Futari no Himitsu (Star Detective Precure! The Movie: The Mysterious Garden and the Secret of 2 People) — the film for Star Detective Precure!, the 23rd main anime entry in the Precure franchise — announced the cast for the three film-original characters in a new video on Sunday.
©2026 映画名探偵プリキュア！製作委員会
The cast members who will voice the original characters are:
- Akari Kitō as Karin (center in image above), a 14-year-old girl who holds the key to the story
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Alan (left), a fairy who watches over Karin
- Kōki Uchiyama as Rain (right), a fairy who requests the Detective Precures’ help
©2026 映画名探偵プリキュア！製作委員会
The film’s story begins with the Detective Precures investigating the “X Mark Incident,” when a fairy named Rain appears and requests for the Detective Precures’ help. Rain leads the team to a lovely garden called “Karin’s Garden,” but it is being overrun by tiny creatures called “Dame Dame.” The team investigates the “Dame Dame” creatures and discovers the secret hidden in the garden.
Past Precure characters from You and Idol Precure♪ and Wonderful Precure! will also appear in the film.
Hanako Ueda (You and Idol Precure♪, Summer Time Rendering My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON episode director) is directing the film. Yoshimi Narita (Eiga HappinessCharge PreCure! Ningyō no Kuni no Ballerina, Eiga Precure All Stars New Stage 3: Eien no Tomodachi, Eiga Tropical-Rouge! Precure: Yuki no Princess to Kiseki no Yubiwa! films) is writing the script, Erika Fukasawa (Eiga Kimi to Idol Precure♪ Omatase! Kimi ni Todokeru Kirakkilive!) and Misaki Umase (You and Idol Precure♪) are composing the music, and Emiko Miyamoto (Eiga Precure All Stars F, Precure Super Stars! original character designer) is designing the characters and is also the film’s chief animation director.
Additional staff members include art director Risa Fujii, color designer Satoshi Takezawa, compositing director of photography Takumi Arai, and production manager Hirotaka Naota.
Yūka Masui and Chihaya Yoshitake performs the film’s ending theme song “FIRST PRISM.” Ami Ishii performs the insert song “First Step.”
The film will open in Japan on September 18.
The Star Detective Precure! anime debuted on February 1 on ABC TV, TV Asahi, and their affiliate channels at 8:30 a.m. JST. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in North America, Central America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and CIS.
The anime centers on Anna Akechi, a second year middle school student who lives in Makoto Mirai Town. She travels back in time from 2027 to 1999 when her “companion fairy” named Pochitan appears on her birthday. In 1999 Makoto Mirai Town, Anna meets Mikuru Kobayashi, another second year middle school student who dreams of becoming a great detective. The two girls witness the troubles caused by the Phantom Thieves who steal people’s precious belongings, and they transform into great Precure detectives and use their deductive reasoning skills to protect the people’s smiles.
The anime stars:
Ami Ishii performs the series’ opening theme song “Heart ni Hint! Meitantei Precure!” (Hint In My Heart! Star Detective Precure!). Akane Kumada and Yūka Masui perform the ending theme song “Naze? Nazo?! ANSWER” (Why? Mystery?! ANSWER).
Sources: Star Detective Precure! film’s website, Comic Natalie
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Publishing company Kakao Piccoma announced a television anime adaptation of Gyeoeul Gwon’s Villains Are Destined to Die webtoon on Sunday, revealing a visual commemorating the conclusion of the main story (pictured above).
Gwon penned the original web novel on the KakaoPage website from March 2019 to August 2020. D&C Media published the series in four volumes, as well as the side story the following month.
SUOL originally began drawing the webtoon on the Kakao Webtoon platform in May 2020 and ended the main story with 214 chapters on Sunday. D&C Media published the ninth volume on January 29.
Tapas released the web novel in English between September to December in 2023. Yen Press licensed the novel in English for physical release under its Ize Press imprint in October 2024 and released the third volume on May 12. The fourth volume is planned for a September 15 release.
Tapas began publishing the webtoon chapters digitally in English in October 2020. Yen Press licensed the webtoon under its Ize Press label in July 2022 and published the eighth volume in November 2025. The ninth volume is scheduled to go on sale on August 18.
Synopsis
The latest otome game is all the rage recently, so a regular university student decides to see for herself if its fame is well-deserved. She clears the normal mode in no time and finds herself pitying the villainess, Penelope Eckhart. Penelope is a fake―a replacement for the duke’s missing daughter, the protagonist of the game.
Initially confident about clearing the hard mode as well, the woman is shocked by the sheer leap in the level of difficulty, eventually passing out from exhaustion. However, when she wakes up, she no longer recognizes her surroundings, for she has been reincarnated into the body of the villainess!
In a world where everyone seems to be out for her blood, Penelope must make wise decisions that keep her away from the death route. A tyrant prince, a suspicious magician, a nobleman from a fallen nation, or one of her nasty adoptive brothers―whose affections will she win? [Written by MAL Rewrite]
Webtoon special site: https://page.kakao.com/content/54845189/
Source: PR Times
News submitted by NokkiMal
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