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Japanese manga series and its franchise
The manga started serialization in ‘s magazine in May 2004. Production of the series was suspended several times due to Hoshino’s health problems. made the transition from a weekly to a monthly series in November 2009, when it began serialization in . In January 2013, the series went on indefinite hiatus. It resumed serialization in July 2015 after the release of , a spin-off from the magazine . After ceased publication, the series was switched to , starting in April 2018. The manga’s chapters have been collected in 29 volumes as of July 2025. The manga is licensed for English release in North America by , which has released 28 volumes by November 2023.
The manga has become one of Shueisha’s bestsellers, with . In Japan and North America, several individual volumes have appeared in weekly top-ten lists of best-selling manga. Although most reviewers found it similar to other manga, they compared its moments of originality and well-developed characters favorably to other series of the same demographic. Hoshino’s artwork has received mostly positive reviews; most critics have commented that her characters are visually appealing and that the elements in her art are pleasant to look at. However, one critic of her artwork has said that Hoshino’s fight sequences can be difficult to follow.
When the manga moved from weekly to monthly serialization in 2009, Hoshino heard concerns from readers about its possible cancellation and reassured them that the series would continue. She set up Kanda’s backstory by introducing the Third Exorcists, characters related to him and Alma Karma. In Hoshino’s original drafts, Kanda’s past had a number of . A rewritten, published version had a young Kanda walking along a path surrounded by dead people who had cared for him. Due to its violence, the image was replaced with one in which Kanda learns that Alma Karma had killed them all. When the chapters were collected into a volume, Hoshino added a small chapter which included the corpses.
