VIZ Media announced this past week that it has licensed two new manga series: Akira Sugito’s Tokyo Fears Rhapsody and Yellow Tanabe’s Kai-hen Wizards. Both series have been added to the VIZ Manga app and website, with Kai-hen Wizards serving as a new simulpub series.
The first three chapters and chapters 11-14.5 of Tokyo Fears Rhapsody are now available, with VIZ stating that it is working to backfill chapters 4-10.
Not all creatures seek out fear and death, you know! What’s a monster gotta do to live out a normal human life?!
Tokyo Fears Rhapsody by Akira Sugito has joined VIZ Manga! Read the first and latest chapters of the new simulpub series for free in the app! https://t.co/VKHhKGeAcN pic.twitter.com/cxYzLBqFvn
— VIZ (@VIZMedia) September 7, 2024
Sugito first launched the manga on Hero’s Inc.’s Comiplex website on November 25, 2022. Two tankobon volumes have been released as of August 2024.
VIZ describes the Tokyo Fears Rhapsody manga as:
Not all creatures seek out fear and death, you know! What’s a monster gotta do to live out a normal human life?!
Tanabe, known for her work on the 2003 manga Kekkaishi, released the first chapter of Kai-Hen Wizards in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine on September 11, 2024. Her newest series was first announced this past August.
Kekkaishi creator Yellow Tanabe brings a new simulpub series to VIZ Manga!
A young boy wakes up with amnesia in the castle of a powerful wizard. But just as he begins a new life, a familiar voice calls out to him…
Read Kai-hen Wizards, Ch. 1 for free! https://t.co/KttwrfI8pj pic.twitter.com/NR7rAZmwu7
— VIZ (@VIZMedia) September 10, 2024
VIZ describes the Kai-hen Wizards manga as:
A young boy wakes up with amnesia in the castle of a powerful wizard. But just as he begins a new life, a familiar voice calls out to him…
Source: VIZ Media Official Twitter
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