Kodansha’s Monthly Shounen Sirius magazine confirmed that Shiki Satoshi’s manga Akuma Koujo (The Devil Princess) will end in the magazine’s July 2024 issue, which will be available for sale on May 24th, 2024.
Shiki (Ai – Hikari to Mizu no Daphne, Kami-Kaze, Dororo to Hyakkimaruden) started the manga in May 2022 in the Monthly Shounen Sirius magazine, and Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in January 2023. The final volume, number three, will be released on August 7th, 2024.
The manga is based on Harunohi Biyori’s original works. In 2015, Harunohi (Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival) started the original story on the Shousetuka ni Narou website and, in 2016, started a sequel story, which was later released by Kodansha. Kodansha published the sequel story’s first novel in June 2022 with illustrations by Umiu Geso, and the fourth novel will be released on May 31st, 2024.
The manga centers on a demon girl who constantly dreams of a world full of light in a modern world with schools, trains, buses, friends, family, movies, and books. At the end of the dream, she finds herself in a white room before being engulfed by darkness and waking up again. She yearned so much for that world of light that when a summoning circle appeared before her, she stepped into it and awakened into a baby’s body within a holy kingdom.
