Azami Fukurai (Credits: Emi Ishikawa / Shueisha)
The Urban Myth Dissolution Center manga has officially ended. Artist Emi Ishikawa announced on X that the adaptation of Shueisha Game’s hit mystery game concluded in the December issue of Ribon magazine, released on Monday.
Urban Myth Dissolution Center Manga Ends After April 2025 Launch
Ishikawa launched the manga, titled Toshi Densetsu Kaitai Center: Parallel File, in April 2025. That gives the series a run of just over a year and a half in Ribon’s pages — a solid showing for a game adaptation in a shojo magazine. Shueisha has collected the series into three compiled volumes so far, with the third hitting shelves on August 19.
The manga was an adaptation rather than an original story, which explains the brisk pace. Parallel File retold the game’s urban-myth mysteries in comic form, giving fans of the title a new way to experience cases centered on cursed relics, monstrous oddities and dimensional anomalies.
The Game Behind the Manga Is Still Growing
While the manga is done, the Urban Myth Dissolution Center game is far from over. The original title launched for PC via Steam in February 2025, expanded to iOS and Android in March, and just got a Nintendo Switch 2 edition on October 28. That Switch 2 version even added new features, including support for the Joy-Con 2’s mouse controls and an art gallery for revisiting the game’s illustrations anytime.
In the game, players take on cases as Azami Fukurai, working under the supervision of Ayumu Meguriya, a Level S psychic and the Center’s director. The premise — a one-stop agency for dissolving urban myths — proved sticky enough to carry a multiplatform rollout and now a finished manga run.
What’s Next for Fans
With three volumes out, the collected edition is the natural next step for anyone who followed the serialization. Whether Shueisha bundles a final volume with bonus content remains to be seen, but the manga’s quick collection schedule suggests fans won’t wait long for the complete set.
The game, meanwhile, keeps building momentum. Its steady platform expansion from PC to mobile to Switch 2 in under nine months shows Shueisha Game has real confidence in the franchise — and a manga adaptation that ran to completion is the kind of transmedia success other publishers study.
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