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Kodama Tales Licenses Me and the Alien Mumu Manga

Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.'s Kodama Tales Inc. subsidiary announced on its X (formerly Twitter) account on Monday that it will release Hiroki Miyashita's Me and the Alien MuMu (Uchūjin MūMū) manga in English on February 1, 2026. The first volume is available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

The publisher describes its story:

An alien named Mumu is a survivor of a civil war that saw the destruction of his planet's scientists, leaving only its fools alive. In an attempt to understand the advanced technology his people left behind, he's infiltrated earth, a planet with a lower level of civilization, to study their so-called "home appliances," which contain facets of all technological knowledge. So begins the adventures of Sakurako, a university freshman and Mumu's new and unexpected accomplice, as she navigates a wild and exciting campus life.

Miyashita began the manga as one-shot story in Shonengahosha's Young King Ours magazine in April 2019, before launching its serialization two months later. Shonengahosha published the manga's eighth compiled book volume on April 30.

The manga and alien character's name is an apparent homage to Mū, the unorthodox magazine on paranormal matters that the Weathering With You film, the Occultic;Nine series, and other anime, manga, and games have referenced.

Me and the Alien MuMu, the television anime adaptation of the manga, premiered on April 9. The anime's second cours (quarters of a year) premiered on July 2.

Miyashita and writer Takeshi Natsuhara launched the Yakuza Reincarnation (Ninkyō Tensei: Isekai no Yakuza Hime) manga in Shogakukan's Sunday GX magazine in July 2019. Shogakukan published the manga's 18th volume on August 19. Seven Seas Entertainment is releasing the manga in English. The company released the 13th volume on July 1. It will publish the 14th volume on November 11 and 15th volume on April 28, 2026.

Kodama Tales will publish Mitei Hattori's Smile! (Smiley) manga in English in January 2026 and Keisuke Itagaki's Baki The Grappler manga worldwide in English in 24 volumes starting in October. The new manga publisher previously teased future titles from Asahi Shimbun Publications, Coamix, Daiwa Shobo, Hero's Inc., Nihonbungeisha, Shodensha, and Shonengahosha.

Source: Kodama Tales' X/Twitter account via @mangalerts