Kadokawa announced on Friday Shinya Murata launched a new manga series with Daichi Matsuse titled Shinoblade SHINOBI BLADE in Kadokawa and Kakao Piccoma‘s “Manga BAR” e-manga magazine on the same day. Murata will write and storyboard the series while Matsuse will provide the art.

The story follows the strongest female ninja, who operated in Hattori Hanzō’s shadow. At the moment she died, she instead found herself transported to another world.

Murata launched the Akujo Ranking (Villainess Ranking) manga with Wakata Wakuta in Kadokawa‘s Monthly Dragon Age magazine on March 9.

Murata and Kazasa Sumita launched the Killing Bites manga in Monthly Hero’s in March 2017, although it now runs on the Comiplex website. Hero’s Inc. published the manga’s 27th compiled book volume on June 29. A television anime adaptation premiered on the Animeism programming block on MBS and TBS in January 2018. The anime’s unaired “director’s cut” streamed worldwide on Amazon Prime Video. The anime had 12 episodes.

Murata and Sumita launched the Saikyō Skill “Inochigoi” de Kuyashii kedo Musō Shichau Moto Ōsama no Sekai Seifuku Katsudō (The Activities of the Former Demon King Whose Strongest Skill is the Embarrassing “Begging for Her Life” and Yet She Will Use it to Run Wild and Conquer the World) manga on Comiplex in June 2023. The manga ended with its fourth volume in December 2025.

Kumo Kagyu and Matsuse launched the Goblin Slayer: A Day in the Life manga in Square Enix‘s Monthly Big Gangan magazine in December 2022, and ended the series in November 2024. Square Enix shipped the the manga’s third and final volume in February 2025. 

Matsuse also drew the I Wish I Could Meet You Again on the Hill Where That Flower Blooms manga with storywriter Natsue Shiomi. Seven Seas Entertainment will release the manga in English starting in December. Matsuse has also drawn the Re:ZERO -Starting Life In Another World- Chapter 1: A Day in the Capital and Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Chapter 3: Truth of Zero manga, both of which Yen Press has released in English.

Source: Kadokawa

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The Behind the Manga website reported on Friday that One Peace Books has confirmed it will release Ei Ikaguchi‘s My Life Turned Around: After I Was Betrayed and Framed, I Won the Heart of the Most Beautiful Girl at School (Jinsei Gyakuten: Uwakisare, Enzai o Kiserareta Ore ga, Gakuen Ichi no Bishōjo ni Natsukareru) manga in English starting with the first volume on July 20, 2027.

One Peace Books describes its story:

The day he lost everything was the day he met her. At the end of summer, Eiji Aono witnesses the unthinkable: his childhood friend and girlfriend, Miyuki Amada, cheating on him with Kondo, the ace of the school’s soccer team. Betrayed by the girl he loved, Eiji is left emotionally shattered. As if that weren’t enough, he soon becomes the target of vicious rumors and relentless slander for crimes he never committed. With nowhere left to turn, he flees to the rooftop of his school…there, at his lowest point, he meets a mysterious girl who will change his life forever.

The manga adaptation launched on Kadokawa‘s Comic Newtype website in June 2025. The first book volume of the manga shipped in November 2025. The second compiled volume launched on June 10.

The manga is based on author D and illustrator Higeneko‘s light novel series that launched on Kakuyomu in September 2023. The novel series won two awards in the 9th Kakuyomu Web Novel Contest. Kadokawa began releasing the series in print in November 2024, and shipped the fourth volume on May 29.

Source: Behind the Manga (WinterVenom)

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