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Tachibana Higuchi's Champignon Witch Manga Posts New Chapter on September 5 After 9 Months

Hakusensha's Manga Park app published the fifth and final part of the 31st chapter of Tachibana Higuchi's Champignon no Majo (Champignon Witch) manga on September 5, and will publish the first part of the 32nd chapter on September 12. The manga last posted a new chapter (fourth part of chapter 31) on December 27, 2024. Several bonus illustrations by Higuchi were posted between January and February this year. Manga Park and Higuchi did not make any official announcement of the manga going on hiatus.

The magic fantasy manga centers on Luna, a witch who lives in the black forest, and is feared by others. She is called the Champignon Witch because anywhere she walks, talks, and touches ends up growing poisonous mushrooms. The story follows the first love of this woman who has previously not known the warmth of another person.

Higuchi launched the manga on Hakusensha's Manga Park app in October 2019. Hakusensha published the sixth compiled book volume in December 2024.

The manga is getting a TV anime adaptation in January 2026.

Higuchi ended her long-running Gakuen Alice manga in The Hana to Yume in 2013. Tokyopop published 16 volumes of the manga before the company shut down in 2011. The company also published four volumes of Higuchi's earlier Portrait of M & N manga.

Gakuen Alice inspired a 26-episode television anime series in 2004-2005. Right Stuf released the series on DVD in North America.

Source: Manga Park