Meiō no Zakuro dark fantasy focuses on high school students after an encounter with the underworld
Manga author Aya Kanno launched a new semi-monthly manga titled Meiō no Zakuro (Underworld Pomegranate) on Akita Shoten's Champion Cross manga website on Monday.
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The series revolves around high school student Seiji, who had the misfortune of falling into a well and entering the underworld as a child, and has been cursed with bad luck ever since. He is always near danger, making everyone afraid to get close to him, except for his childhood friend, Haru. When something he brought from the underworld begins to activate, his life takes a strange turn.
Kanno (Otomen) serialized Requiem of the Rose King in Akita Shoten's Monthly Princess magazine in October 2013 and ended it in January 2022. Viz Media released the manga in English. The manga inspired a television anime series that premiered in January 2022. Funimation streamed the anime in Japanese and also streamed an English dub. The anime aired for two consecutive seasons (quarters a year), lasting half a year.
Kanno launched the spin-off manga Requiem of the Rose King: The Queen and the Rose Knight in March 2022, and ended it in September 2023. Akita Shoten published the manga's third and final volume in November 2023.
Source: Champion Cross, Comic Natalie
