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The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Rockin' Girl Manga Ends

The April issue of Square Enix's Big Gangan magazine published the final chapter of Hamatyon's The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Rockin' Girl manga on March 25. The magazine's January issue previously revealed in December that the manga was slated to end in January, the manga continued with two more chapters until March.

The manga launched in October 2012, although it has frequently been on hiatus. Square Enix released the first compiled volume in April 2013. The story focuses on Riina Tada, Kanako Mimura, and Rika Jōgasaki.

Cygames developed the original The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls game app, a spinoff of Bandai Namco Entertainment's The IDOLM@STER game franchise, focusing on a different idol agency and characters. The app inspired its own television anime.

The game has also inspired multiple manga adaptations, including seven manga in Square Enix magazines. Besides The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Rockin' Girl, the other manga Square Enix has launched since 2012 are the following:

• The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls - New Generations, with art by namo in Square Enix's Gangan Joker magazine
• The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls - Ensemble!, written by Haruki Kashiba and with art by Sadoru Chiba in Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine
• The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls - Idol of the Day (Honjitsu no Idol-san) and The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls - Honjitsu no Dereraji-san, with art by Saya Kiyoshi in Square Enix's Big Gangan magazine
• The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls - Shuffle!! anthology manga by multiple artists, launched in Square Enix's Gangan Online web magazine
• The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls - Dereraji-san, with art by Ajiichi in Gangan Online

Sō Ueto launched a The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls manga in Ichijinsha's Comic Rex in December 2015 after several delays, though the magazine announced in July that the manga was suspended due to the artist's health. Kyōno launched a manga titled The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls U149 on Cygames' Cycomi manga website in November. Sako Misaki's The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Wild Wind Girl manga runs in Akita Shoten's Monthly Shōnen Champion magazine. Kuma-Jet's The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Gekijō (The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Theater) manga, which is irregularly serialized in the IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls social mobile game app itself, is inspiring its own anime adaptation, which premiered on April 4.

Ichijinsha has also published multiple The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls manga anthologies.