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Elex Media Licenses Jūhime: Phantom Pain Manga

Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo revealed on Tuesday that it has licensed Kaya Kuramoto's Jūhime: Phantom Pain (Gun Princess: Phantom Pain) manga. The first volume has a tentative release date of January 6.

The manga is set two years after the earlier Jūhime: Sincerely Night manga, and half a year after the original Jūhime series. Most of the world is submerged in water after a great tidal wave washed over everything. Many died and civilization collapsed in a post-apocalyptic world. Koji flees from the Church of the Eastern Star alongside the half-human, half-spirit gun mage Matelier, who assists him in his flight. However, he has no memory of meeting Matelier, remembering only that he is bound by contract to her. What he doesn't know is that a brutal and monstrous power resides inside of him, that only Matelier can control.

Kuramoto launched the manga in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Sirius magazine in 2010, and ended it in April 2014. Kodansha published the manga's sixth and final compiled book volume in May 2014. The manga is a sequel to both Kei Ichimonji's Jūhime: Sincerely Night manga, and Madoka Takadono's (Devils and Realist) original Jūhime light novel series. Takadono launched the light novel series in 2004, and MF Bunko J published the 11th and final novel in 2009. Ichimonji launched the Jūhime: Sincerely Night manga in Monthly Shōnen Sirius in 2006, and ended it in 2008. Kodansha published four compiled book volumes for the manga.