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Haganai: I Don’t Have Many Friends Author Yomi Hirasaka Retires – News
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© Yomi Hirasaka, Buriki/Kadokawa
Haganai: I Don’t Have Many Friends author Yomi Hirasaka confirmed on September 13 that he retired as a light novelist. He explained that he did not retire due to lack of success or mental health reasons, but because of FIRE — the “Financial Independence, Retire Early” movement that encourage saving and investing to stop working early in life.
Hirasaka was responding to a social media post that speculated that he was retiring for his mental health, after the negative feedback to A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics anime and the original light novel series’ final volume. Hirasaka replied that both the anime and the final novel volume were extremely popular.
© Shogakukan, Yomi Hirasaka, Kantoku
Hirasaka and illustrator Kantoku (Sasaki and Peeps, The “Hentai” Prince and the Stony Cat.) launched A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics (Henjin no Salad Bowl) light novel series in October 2021. The 10th and final volume shipped on July 17. Kōtarō Yamada (Sword Art Online: Project Alicization) launched a manga adaptation on the Sunday Webry website in September 2022, and ended in December 2024. The manga’s sixth and final compiled book volume shipped in January 2025. The novels inspired a television anime that premiered in April 2024. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Hirasaka launched A Sister’s All You Need. (Imōto Sae Ireba Ii.) novel series in 2015 with illustrations by Kantoku, and ended the novels with the 14th volume in February 2020. Yen Press published the 14th volume in English in February 2023. Edo launched a manga adaptation in Shogakukan‘s Sunday GX magazine in December 2015, and ended it in July 2019. Shogakukan published the manga’s eighth and final volume in October 2019. Kobashiko‘s Imōto Sae Ireba Ii.: Gaiden – Imōto ni Saenareba Ii! (A Sister’s All You Need.: Side Story – Becoming a Sister’s All I Need!) spinoff manga launched in Square Enix‘s Gangan Joker magazine in October 2016, and ended in February 2018. Square Enix published three volumes for the manga.
Hirasaka and illustrator Buriki‘s Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai (Haganai) light novel series launched in 2009, and ended with its 11th volume in August 2015. The light novel series inspired two television anime, video anime spinoffs, and a live-action film. Funimation released the two TV anime seasons on home video. Seven Seas Entertainment released Itachi‘s Haganai: I Don’t Have Many Friends manga adaptation in English. The company also released Chiruwo Kazahana and Shirabi‘s Haganai: I Don’t Have Many Friends – Now With 50% More Fail! manga spinoff as well as bomi and Kiurian‘s Haganai: I Don’t Have Many Friends – Club Minutes manga spinoff.
Source: Yomi Hirasaka‘s X/Twitter account via Hachima Kikō
Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.
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“Toilet fantasy comedy” manga from Angel Drop manga creator launched in January 2024
Kadokawa announced on Friday that Chizuna Nakajima‘s Elf-Sensei no Toire wa Doko Desu ka? (Where is the Elf Teacher’s Toilet?) manga is getting a television anime adaptation.
Nakajima drew an illustration to commemorate the announcement:
❀.･ﾟ──────⊹──────ﾟ･.❀
『エルフ先生のトイレはどこですか？』
TVアニメ化記念イラスト大公開‼️
❀.･ﾟ──────⊹──────ﾟ･.❀原作 #中嶋ちずな 先生によるアニメ化記念イラストを公開！
アニメ放送をお楽しみに🪽✨#アニメエルフ先生 pic.twitter.com/0KlW0l4ew3— TVアニメ『エルフ先生のトイレはどこですか？』公式 (@elfsensei_anime) September 25, 2026
The story revolves around the elf teaching trainee Eruru, who has come from another world. She finds she can only relieve herself in the lush forest.
Nakajima launched the manga in Kadokawa‘s Comic Cune magazine in January 2024. The manga will resume serialization on Saturday.
Kadokawa published the first compiled volume of the manga in July 2024, and published the second volume in February 2025.
Nakajima launched the Jitensha no Onee-san (The Bicycle Lady) manga in Comic Cune in September 2019 and ended it in September 2020. Kadokawa published two volumes for the manga.
Nakajima launched the Angel’s Drop (Tenshi no Drop) comedy manga on Holp Shuppan‘s Flex Comix Blood site in 2011, but after Flex Comix Blood shut down a year later, the manga moved to the Comic Meteor website. The manga ended in December 2013. The manga inspired a television anime special from director Kōji Itō and the anime studio AIC Frontier in 2013.
Sources: Elf-sensei no Toire wa Doko Desu ka? anime’s X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. One or more of the companies mentioned in this article are part of the Kadokawa Group of Companies.
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WWWave Corporation‘s Deregula animation label announced a television anime adaptation of Chizuna Nakajima‘s Elf-sensei no Toilet wa Doko desu ka? (Where Is the Elf Teacher’s Toilet?) on Friday, revealing a pair of commemorative illustrations by the original creator (pictured above and right).
Nakajima began serializing the comedy ecchi series in Comic Cune in January 2024. The series entered hiatus in January 2025 and is scheduled to return on September 26. Kadokawa published the second volume in February 2025.
Synopsis
Eruru is an elf visiting from another world for her teaching practicum at an all-boys school. However, she has a problem; elven rules stipulate that she can only relieve herself in a place with abundant nature! Welcome to the heart-pounding, suspense-filled fantasy comedy about…needing to use the bathroom?!
Source: PR Times
Official X: @elfsensei_anime
Manga special site: https://comic-walker.com/detail/KC_005377_S
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Gyuwanburā Jikochūshin-ha Doranpu Teikoku o Wakarasero! (Self-Centered Gambler: Teach the Dramp Empire a Lesson!), a new mahjong game parodying United States President Donald Trump, went on display at the Success booth during the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) 2026 this week. Along with the demo at TGS 2026, the company Success presented a promotional video for its game:
The game features 20 characters from the Gyuwanburā Jikochūshin-ha franchise by veteran mahjong manga creator Masayuki Katayama. It also adds two new opponents: Great Dramp and Elon Musg — Dramp’s greatest collaborator whose company Laste is developing a gasoline-powered mahjong table. The story begins at Nankuru Prison on an otherwise uninhabited Okinawan island, but then shifts to Dramp Tower in Manhattan.
Success is set to release the game in October on the Nintendo Switch for 5,280 yen (about US$34). The company has not announced if the game will be available internationally.
Katayama launched the original Gyuwanburā Jikochūshin-ha manga in Kodansha‘s Young Magazine in 1982. The Gyuwanburā Jikochūshin-ha game series began in 1987, and now boasts almost two dozen entries nearly four decades later.
Sources: Tokyo Game Show 2026, Gyuwanburā Jikochūshin-ha Doranpu Teikoku o Wakarasero! website, Success‘s YouTube channel
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