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Firefly Wedding Manga Enters Final Arc
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
Shogakukan's Manga ONE app revealed on October 6 that Oreco Tachibana's Firefly Wedding (Hotaru no Yomeiri) manga will start its final arc in its next chapter on October 20.
Comikey and Viz Media both release the manga in English digitally. Viz Media also publishes the manga physically and will release the fourth volume on Tuesday. Viz Media describes the manga:
Afflicted with a heart condition, Meiji-era noblewoman Satoko is determined to secure a marriage that will benefit her family before she dies. But before she can realize her goal, she's targeted by a mysterious assassin named Shinpei. In a last-ditch effort to save her life, Satoko asks here would-be murderer to marry her. Her proposal isn't sincere, but unfortunately for her, Shinpei loves as intensely as he kills. Can Satoko find a way to break the engagement without losing her life?
The manga launched on the Manga ONE app in 2022. Shogakukan published the ninth compiled book volume on September 19. The manga was nominated in the Best Shōjo Manga category of Kodansha's 48th annual Manga Awards in 2024.
Tachibana launched the Promise Cinderella manga on Shogakukan's Ura Sunday website in 2018. Shogakukan published the manga's first compiled book volume in Japan in June 2018. The 16th and final volume released in 2022.
Southeast Asian publisher Shogakukan Asia licensed the manga. U.S.-based localization company Comikey Media Inc. added the manga in its service in July 2021.
Tachibana also launched a spinoff manga titled #Batsu Ichi Arasā Joshi to Danshi Kōkōsei on Ura Sunday in June 2018. Shogakukan published the manga's one volume in Japan in February 2019. Shogakukan Asia published the manga's English version with the title Promise Cinderella #Strike One in September 2020.
