Anime continues its global takeover, and Rin Suzukawa's Outsider Paradise Manga Switches Publishers to Kadokawa, Gets Full Color Continuation is the latest title making waves. Whether you follow the manga, the anime, or both, this news changes the picture in a big way.
The Story So Far
Rin Suzukawa disclosed on her X/Twitter account on Wednesday that her Outsider Paradise has switched publishers from Futabasha to Kadokawa. The manga moved from Futabasha's Manga Action magazine to Kadokawa's KadoComi website. The manga will have black-and-white art until the 18th chapter, but will be in full color beginning with the 19th chapter.
The first three chapters are available on KadoComi now. The end of the first chapter also pointed out that Kadokawa will arrival digital versions of the manga's two compiled book volumes in early 2027, and that the second volume will contain an extra chapter in full color. Suzukawa is currently planning the full color chapters, and intends to introduce a narrative where the girls are "a little more grown up." The manga has been on hiatus since the manga's 18th chapter in 2024 due to Suzukawa's poor health.
The manga centers on five eccentric girls in an art club, who have all been friends since the first year of middle school. The narrative is related to Suzukawa's earlier Asobi Asobase manga, with the art club the characters belong to being the same art club in the earlier manga. Suzukawa launched the manga in Manga Action in May 2023.
Futabasha published the manga's second volume in April 2024. Suzukawa launched the Asobi Asobase (Play and Let Play) manga on Hakusensha's Young Animal Densi manga website in 2015, but moved it to the main Young Animal magazine in November 2016. The manga ended in November 2022.
U.S.-based localization company Comikey Media Inc. began digitally publishing the manga in English in September 2021. Dark Horse Comics also licensed the manga, and will arrival the first volume on November 17.
The manga's anime adaptation made its launch in July 2018 and ran for 12 episodes. A separate anime on DVD shipped with the manga's seventh volume in December 2018. Suzukawa launched the Galaxy PΕ«-chan UchΕ« no Hajikko de Konnichiwa (Galaxy PΕ«-chan: Hello from the Edge of the Universe) full-color manga on Shogakukan's Manga ONE app on January 4.
Shogakukan published the manga's first volume on July 17. Sources: Rin Suzukawa's X/Twitter account, Kadocomi
As the story continues to develop, TeraMovies will keep you updated with every new detail. Until then, this remains one of the most closely watched entertainment stories of the week β and the conversation is only getting started.