Image via Keiko Sakano's Twitter account
© Keiko Sakano, Mitsuru Yūki, Hakusensha
This year's 19th issue of Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine announced on Thursday that Keiko Sakano and Mitsuru Yūki's Mamorikatana no Uta-Mamorikatana no Ichimonji (Song of the Guardian Sword-The Straight Line of the Guardian Sword) manga mini-series will end after two chapters. If there are no schedule changes, the mini-series will end on October 5.
The story takes place in the capital city of Shinto Tokyo, where humans and monsters coexist. The protagonist Uta is asked by her grandmother to find the Makibara Clan, who were recently fired by their landlord, Rinnosuke. The city is also plagued by a series of disappearances involving haunted people.
Sakano and Yūki launched the series on April 19.
Sakano serialized a manga adaptation of Fiancée of the Wizard (Mahō Tsukai no Konyakusha) on Kadokawa's ComicWalker website and app from August 2017 to January 2020. Kadokawa published the fourth and final volume in February 2020. Yen Press licensed the series digitally and in print in February 2020. Yen Press published the fourth volume in February 2021.
Nakamura launched the original novel on the Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Become a Novelist) website in February 2013. Ichijinsha released the first volume with illustrations by Sakano in November 2015, and the 14th volume was published in December 2022.
Yūki published the first Onmyōji, Abe no Seimei book in the series in 2010, and the fifth in 2017. The first two books in the series were released in tankōbon format with illustrations by Sakura Asagi (illustrator for Yūki's Shonen Onmyouji series). They were later re-released in Bunko format with new art by Naruto Ito in 2013 and 2016, and the light novel series then continued with that format and illustrator.
Yuuki's long-running Shonen Onmyouji light novel series debuted in 2002, and is currently running for 53 volumes. A 26-episode anime television series adaptation aired from 2006 to 2007. Geneon released the series on DVD, and Funimation later re-released the series on DVD in 2009.
Source: Hana to Yume No. 19
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