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Shinya Murata's Blattodea Manga Enters Final Stage
posted on by Alex Mateo
Murata and Hayami debuted the manga in Gangan Joker in January 2020. Square Enix published the manga's seventh compiled book volume in November 2024.
The manga serves as a sequel to Murata and artist Ifuji Shinsen's Arachnid manga, which ran in Gangan Joker from 2009 to 2016. The manga centered on Alice, a young girl who lives with her abusive uncle, and who suffers from a mental disorder in which she focuses on one thing intently. She witnesses the assassination of her uncle by a man named Kumo. She then awakens in Kumo's house, and starts to be raised by an assassin. Alice returns in the sequel.
Murata and Hayami previously collaborated on two manga together. They worked together on the Caterpillar manga. Murata and Isuka Hakozaki launched the manga in 2012, and Hayami took over for Hakozaki in 2014 after the latter passed away in 2013. The manga ended in April 2018. Murata and Hayami then launched the Chōbu no Shinobi (Lepidoptela) manga in Gangan Joker in April 2017, and ended the manga in July 2019.
Murata's Killing Bites manga with artist Kazasa Sumita inspired a 12-episode television anime that premiered in January 2018. Amazon Prime Video streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
Source: Gangan Joker September issue
