Ryukishi07‘s creator group 07th Expansion announced on the Pomexgranate. YouTube channel on Sunday that the writer will launch a new manga series titled Koppa Maichiru Sono Koro ni (When the Wood Chips Scatter) on Akita Publishing‘s Young Champion Web platform on January 31. Kōichi Tsugi (Cells at Work! Illegal) will illustrate the series.
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© Ryukishi07, Kei Natsumi, Square Enix
Kei Natsumi launched the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Iro Tōtoshi-hen manga on Square Enix‘s Gangan Online manga website in June 2023. Square Enix published the manga’s first volume in September 2023, and the third volume on August 9. The series will end with the fourth volume on February 12. The manga is described as the “answer arc” for the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei manga.
The manga is a sequel to two new manga in the Higurashi franchise titled Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei that launched in November 2021. Natsumi’s Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Oni Okoshi-hen launched on Gangan Online, while Seigo Tokiya‘s Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei: Hoshi Watashi-hen launched in Square Enix‘s Monthly Big Gangan magazine. Oni Okoshi-hen ended in August 2022, while Hoshi Watashi-hen ended in September 2022. The second and final compiled book volumes for both manga shipped in November 2022.
Manga creator Tomato Akase launched a new manga titled Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Meguri (Higurashi: When They Cry – Meguri) in October 2021 on Kadokawa‘s Young Ace Up service. The manga is a new answer arc for the Higurashi: When They Cry: GOU series. The manga ended on January 26, and its fifth and final volume shipped in Japan on March 4. The Higurashi: When They Cry: GOU anime premiered in October 2020, and the 24th and final episode aired in March 2021. Higurashi: When They Cry – SOTSU, the followup to the anime, premiered in July 2021 and aired for 15 episodes.
Asahi launched a new manga in the Higurashi franchise titled Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Oni in Futabasha‘s Monthly Action magazine in February 2022. The manga moved to Futabasha‘s Web Action manga website, after Monthly Action magazine ended publication on February 24.
07th Expansion launched the first chapter of the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni visual novel software in 2002 at Comiket. The story revolves around murders that coincide with an annual festival in a quiet rural village. Ryukishi07 and 07th Expansion released Higurashi: When They Cry Hou for PC in Japan in 2014 as a “thank you” to series fans (the kanji used for Hō is used in the word Hōnō, “dedication”).
Sources: Pomexgranate.’s YouTube channel, Comic Natalie
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