Higurashi Manga Artist Tomato Akase Launches Isekai Magical Girl Series

The official X (formerly Twitter) account for Kadokawa's Young Ace Up platform announced that Tomato Akase launched a new series Isekai Mahou Shoujo Radical Haruna (Little Witch Radical Haruna) on the Comic Walker platform on Monday.

Image via Young Ace Up's X/Twitter account

© Tomato Akase, Kadokawa

The series follows magical girl Haruna, who is accidentally transported to a fantasy world with no magical girls. Evil still plagues this land, however, and Haruna continues her fight to protect people's smiles.

Akase ended the Higurashi: When They Cry: MEGURI (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Meguri) manga in March 2024 Akase launched the manga on Kadokawa's Young Ace Up service in October 2021. The manga is described as a new answer arc for the Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU series.  

The Young Ace Up service published the final chapter of Akase's manga adaptation of Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU in September 2021. The manga launched in October 2020.

Source: Young Ace Up's X/Twitter account

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