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Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Manga Resumes After 2 Years

Koma Warita and Riku Tsuchida's manga adaptation of ZAG Entertainment's Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir series resumed on Kodansha's Palcy app after two years with its 40th chapter on June 18. The 39th chapter appeared in the manga's third and most recent compiled book volume in June 2023 (the chapter was published as the 14th chapter in the volume, due to each chapter being published on Palcy in multiple parts).

Warita and Tsuchida launched the manga in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine in January 2021. The manga transferred to the Palcy app in 2023. Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

Marinette is your typical high school student. She's cheery, a bit awkward, and a little clumsy. But what's not so typical is, she can transform into a superhero! Disguised as the confident Ladybug, Marinette protects the streets of Paris alongside fellow superhero Cat Noir--who, unbeknownst to Marinette, is Marinette's classmate Adrian. Not only are Marinette and Adrian unaware of each other's secret identities, they're also criss-crossed crushes--Marinette has a crush on Adrian, while Chat Noir has a crush on Ladybug! As if being a teenager and a crime fighting superhero wasn't enough!

The 3D CG Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir series debuted in South Korea in September 2015, before premiering in the United States on Nickelodeon in December 2015. The second season premiered on television in France on Netflix in December 2016. The third season premiered in France in April 2019 and on Netflix that August. The fourth season premiered in France in April 2021, and it also streamed on Disney+. A fifth season followed in October 2022. A sixth season debuted in the U.S. on January 25. Shout! Factory is releasing the series on home video.

The series is a co-production between Zag, Method Animation, Toei Animation, and SamG, with the participation of TF1, Disney Channel EMEA, SK Broadband, and AB droits audiovisuels.

ZAG Entertainment, Toei Animation, and Method Animation co-produced a 2D-animated promotional video for the project announcement before relaunching it as a CG-animated series. Zag and Toei Animation co-produced a 2D-animated OVA for the series, though it includes Cat Noir's design from the 3D CG-animated series, not the older design used in the promotional video.

ZAG Entertainment is establishing a new studio in Japan in July.

Source: Palcy app