The No.6 novel series by Asano Atsuko and illustrator Kino Hinoki will be getting a sequel titled No.6 Saikai (No.6 Reunion), which takes place two years after the story’s original end. The sequel novel will have illustrations by toi8 and will be released on May 28th, 2025, 14 years after the series’s ninth and final novel was released.
Kodansha published the first novel by Asano and Kino in 2003 and the ninth and final novel in 2011.
The No.6 story was adapted into a live-action film in Japan in 2007, a live-action TV series in 2008, and an 11-episode TV anime in 2011.
Kino adapted the novel series into a manga in January 2011 in Kodansha’s ARIA magazine. Kodansha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in June 2011 and the ninth and final volume in February 2014. Kodansha USA Publishing released all the manga volumes in English between 2013 and 2014 and an omnibus edition in 2023. Kodansha describes the story below:
For Shion, an elite student in the technologically sophisticated city No. 6, life is carefully choreographed. School, study, and the occasional visit with his friend and classmate Safu. One fateful day, however, he takes a misstep, sheltering an injured boy his age from a typhoon. Known only as Rat, this boy is a VC—a fugitive living outside the computerized tapestry of city control—and helping him will throw Shion’s life into chaos and start him down a path to discovering the appalling secrets behind the superficial perfection of No. 6.
