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Kazuya Minekura Plans to End Wild Adapter Manga in 8th Volume

Kazuya Minekura announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday she is working steadily to make the eighth volume of her Wild Adapter manga the final volume. She added she is a "Stone Age person" who still even now draws storyboards on paper.

『WILD ADAPTER』最新話、「一迅プラス」にて本日より期間限定で無料公開中です。
何卒よろしくお願いいたします（7巻の続きの49話から読めます）。
8巻を最終巻とする目標で地道に頑張りたいです。

未だにネームですらアナログな石器時代の人間です。
ミニチュアのコンバースはガチャでGETしましたー https://t.co/5NUk7boCaI pic.twitter.com/mwOdXXGqvT

— 峰倉かずや (@kaz_minekura) August 8, 2025

The artist resumed publishing the series on Ichijinsha's Ichijin Plus web manga site on the same day, after taking a nine-year hiatus beginning in 2016.

In the manga's story, a young gang leader named Makoto Kubota takes in Minoru Tokitoh, a boy with a mysterious past. Minoru has been exposed to the drug "W.A." which has transformed his right arm into a monstrous limb. The two investigate the origins of the drug that is devastating the city's underground.

The manga launched in Tokuma Shoten's bimonthly Chara magazine in 2000, but then it switched publishers to Ichijinsha in 2011, running in Ichijinsha's Zero-Sum Ward magazine until the magazine ceased publication in May 2015. Wild Adapter then moved to Zero-Sum Online. Ichijinsha has since republished the previous compiled volumes of Wild Adapter, and published the seventh volume in July 2015.

Ichijinsha slowed the serialization of Minekura's Wild Adapter and Saiyuki Reload Blast manga in 2013 due to her health.

The series inspired an original video anime in 2014, and a second OVA in 2015. The characters of Wild Adapter also appear in Minekura's Shiritsu Araiso Koutougakkou Seitokai Shikkoubu (Araiso Private High School Student Council Executive Committee) manga and its 2002 video anime adaptation.

Tokyopop licensed the Wild Adapter manga in 2006 for release in North America. The company published six volumes before the company first closed its North American publishing division.

Minekura also recently resumed her Saiyuki Reload Blast manga after five years on hiatus in September 2024.

Source: Kazuya Minekura's X/Twitter account