Summary
- New manga by Squid Girl creator to be serialized in Young Magazine starting February 3, 2025.
- Title of the manga, Akuma de Fukei, is a wordplay meaning “disrespecting the devil” or “protecting the devil.”
- The romantic comedy is set in a rural police station featuring a clumsy demon policewoman and her coworker.
A few days ago, Rakuten listed the first volume of a new manga by Masahiro Anbe, most known as the Squid Girl (Ikamusume) series creator. As no magazine serialization has been announced, it seemed it would be directly released in tankobon format, without serialization in any magazine.
However, it has now been confirmed that the new title will indeed be serialized in a magazine. With the volume already slated for release on June 6, the serialization should begin around now, as is actually the case.
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Kodansha confirmed that the series would debut sooner than that. It will start running in Young Magazine on February 3, 2025, following the weekly schedule of the magazine.
What We Know About The New Manga
The new manga is titled Akuma de Fukei, which seems to be a wordplay meaning both “disrespecting the devil” and “protecting the devil”, as “fukei” is written in hiragana, and not in kanji, making it impossible to be sure which of those would be the correct one, as both seems to suit the plot. This is a way to make both of them valid.
Anyway, this is a romantic comedy set in a police station in a rural area. Demon “policewoman” Eclair decided to station herself in a police box, looking for an evil human to become her servant. Her coworker, Daichi Kuwahara, would rather send her back to the demon world. But her clumsy personality prevents him from doing it.
Other Works By Masahiro Anbe
Anbe is most famous for Squid Girl, a story about a squid girl who decides to control the world and avenge herself — and other sea creatures — for the pollution caused by humankind in the ocean. Her base of operations is a beach in Japan. However, she accidentally damages a local restaurant and is forced to work as a waitress to compensate the owners, the Aizawa siblings.
After completing Squid Girl, Anbe serialized Atsumare! Fushigi Kenkyuu-bu, which hasn’t been officially published in English.
Squid Girl anime adaptation is licensed by Sentai Filmworks in the US. The original manga hasn’t been published in English.
Source: MangaMogura, ANN