Manga creator Katsuwo launched a manga adaptation of Renren Ii’s Ōja no Ban Kuruwase: Net Shōgi no Teiō, Real Taikai de Chōjō o Mezasu (Underdog Upsets the King) light novels in the November issue of Kadokawa‘s Dengeki Daioh G on Monday. The issue’s front cover will also feature the manga.

The story centers on Mikado Watanabe, an introverted high school student who maintains a double identity online as the so-called “King of Self-Destruction,” a high level online shōgi player who makes even pro players shudder. Mikado joins his high school’s shōgi club after a series of strange events, enter the amateur shōgi tournament Kōryūsen, and begins his rise in the game outside of the Internet, alongside his fellow club members.

Renren Ii launched the originals story’s serialization in Kadokawa‘s Kakuyomu website in December 2023, and the story is ongoing. Kadokawa published the story’s first print volume on March 21, with illustrations by Fujiko. The third volume shipped on August 24, and the fourth volume will ship on November 20.

Katsuwo launched the #Zombie Sagashitemasu (#ImLookingForZombies) manga in Kadokawa‘s Comic Dengeki DaiohG magazine in June 2022. Kadokawa published the third and final compiled book volume in January 2024. Yen Press licensed the manga. The manga is getting a television anime that will debut on October 3. Crunchyroll will stream the anime.

Katsuwo‘s Mitsuboshi Colors manga inspired the television anime of the same name, which premiered in January 2018. Sentai Filmworks streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. 

Katsuwo launched the Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu (Solitary “__” Life, or Hitori Bocchi’s “__” Life) manga in the inaugural issue Comic Dengeki DaiohG in September 2013, and ended it in April 2021. Kadokawa published the manga’s eighth and final volume in June 2021. The manga inspired a television anime adaptation in April 2019. Crunchyroll streamed the anime.

Source: Dengeki Daioh G November issue and website

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Alpa launched a new series titled Slap Shot Girls on Shueisha‘s Shonen Jump+ platform on Tuesday. MANGA Plus began releasing it in English at the same time on Monday

The story follows Kurumi Kobashiri, who moves to Hokkaido after middle school due to her parents’ circumstances. Her boyfriend chooses to break up with her rather than enter a long-distance relationship, and Kurumi is heartbroken. She finds herself wandering into a skating rink where she discovers a hot man and hockey.

Alpa ended the Ankoku Delta manga in January 2025. Alpa launched the series on the Shonen Jump+ platform in March 2024. MANGA Plus publishes the series digitally in English. hueisha shipped the fifth compiled book volume in April 2025.

Sources: Shonen Jump+, Manga Plus

Titan Manga revealed on Tuesday that it will ship its English 3-in-1 omnibus edition of Eiji Hashimoto and Shinya Umemura‘s Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem (Chiruran: Shinsengumi Chinkon-ka) manga on January 26, 2027. The company also unveiled the cover (pictured right):

The company describes the story:

Before he became the legendary Vice Commander of the feared Shinsengumi, Hijikata Toshizou was a reckless young swordsman determined to carve out his place in a nation on the brink of collapse. As political unrest tears Japan apart and violence erupts in the streets of Kyoto, Toshizou and his comrades will forge The Shinsen-gumi, the ruthless “Mibu Wolves”, a band of warriors sworn to restore order at any cost.

Hashimoto teased in January new content for the series, but did not clarify whether it was a new chapter or story for the manga.

Umemura provided the story, and Hashimoto illustrated the manga. The duo launched the series in the inaugural issue of Tokuma Shoten‘s Monthly Comic Zenon magazine in 2010. The manga began its final arc with the 32nd volume in January 2022, and ended in April 2023. Mangamo is also releasing the manga in English digitally under the title The Shinsen-gumi.

The manga inspired a stage play adaptation that ran in April 2017.

The manga’s live-action series adaptation aired on the TBS channel in spring as a special, and also streams on the U-NEXT service as a series.

Umemura and Hashimoto launched a comedy spinoff manga titled Chiruran Nibun no Ichi in Monthly Comic Zenon in May 2016. The spinoff manga received an anime series of shorts that premiered in January 2017. Crunchyroll streamed the series under the title Chiruran 1/2 as it aired.

Source: Email correspondence