is a Japanese

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series written and illustrated by Yura Urushibara. It has been serialized in Akita Shoten's manga magazine '' Weekly Shōnen Champion'' since June 2020. An

anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

television series adaptation is set to premiere in 2025.

Characters

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Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by , ''Tougen Anki: Dark Demon of Paradise'' started in Akita Shoten's manga magazine '' Weekly Shōnen Champion'' on June 11, 2020. Akita Shoten has collected its chapters into individual volumes. The first volume was released on October 8, 2020. As of May 8, 2024, twenty volumes have been released. In March 2024, Yen Press announced that they had licensed the manga for English release in North America, with the first volume set to be released in September of the same year. The series has also been licensed in France by

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, and in Italy by

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Volumes

Stage play

In December 2023, it was announced that the series would receive a stage play adaptation, which ran at the Tennozu Galaxy Theater in

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from February 17–24, 2024, and at the

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's Theater Drama City in

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from February 29 to March 3 of the same year.

Anime

In May 2024, it was announced that the series would receive an

television series adaptation. It is set to premiere in 2025. Remow licensed the series.

Reception

By February 2022, the manga had over 1.2 million copies in circulation; over 1.85 million copies in circulation by November 2022; over 2.2 million copies in circulation by March 2023; over 2.6 million copies in circulation by December 2023; and over 3 million copies in circulation by May 2024. The manga was nominated for the 2021 Next Manga Awards in the print category. The manga placed seventh in

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's second E-book Award in the "I Want to Deliver It to the World! Top Recommended Manga" category in 2024.

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