Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine announced this week that Ichikawa Haruko‘s Houseki no Kuni (Land of the Lustrous) manga will end in the magazine’s June 2024 issue, which will be available for sale on April 25th, 2024.
Ichikawa (Mushi to Uta – Ichikawa Haruko Sakuhinshuu, 25-ji no Bakansu) started the manga in October 2012 in Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine. Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in July 2013; the latest novel, number 12, was released in November 2022.
Due to the manga’s popularity, it also inspired a TV anime adaptation in October 2027, and all 12 episodes were streamed on HIDIVE.
In a world inhabited by crystalline lifeforms called The Lustrous, every unique gem must fight for its way of life against the threat of Lunarians who would turn them into decorations. Phosphophyllite, the most fragile and brittle gem, longs to join the battle. When Phos is instead assigned to complete a natural history of their world, it sounds like a dull and pointless task. But this new job brings Phos into contact with Cinnabar, a gem forced to live in isolation. Can Phos’s seemingly mundane assignment lead both Phos and Cinnabar to the fulfillment they desire?
