Publisher
Kodama Tales Inc.,
a subsidiary of Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd., announced on its
official X account that it will publish Hiroki
Miyashita's Me and the Alien MuMu manga in English
on February 1, 2026. The first volume is available for pre-order
now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
What is
the story about?
The manga
follows Mumu, an alien who survived a civil war in which his planet
lost all its scientists, leaving only the fools alive. In an attempt to
decipher the advanced technology that his people left behind, he decides to
infiltrate Earth to study household appliances, which he considers
to be sources of all technological knowledge. There he meets Sakurako,
a university student who becomes his unexpected companion in adventures on a
campus full of crazy situations.
Trajectory
of the work
Miyashita
debuted this story as a one-shot in Shonengahsha's Young
King Ours magazine in April 2019, and two months later began
serialization. The publisher published the eighth compilation volume on April
30.
The name of
the character and the work refer to the magazine Mū, dedicated to
paranormal themes and cited in multiple productions such as Weathering
With You and Occultic; Nine. The manga received its
television adaptation titled Me and the Alien MuMu, which premiered
on April 9. Its second cours began airing on July
2.
Other
works by the author and more
Miyashita,
along with screenwriter Takeshi Natsuhara, launched the manga
Yakuza Reincarnation (Ninkyō Tensei: Isekai no Yakuza Hime) in
Shogakukan's Sunday GX magazine in 2019. The work already
has 18 volumes published and is distributed in English by
Seven Seas Entertainment, which will release volume 15 on April 28,
2026.
In addition
to Me and the Alien MuMu, the publisher will launch the manga Smile!
(Smiley) by Mitei Hattori, and will begin the English-language
publication of Keisuke Itagaki's Baki The Grappler in
24 volumes from October 2026. The company also teased future titles from
publishers such as Asahi Shimbun Publications, Coamix, Daiwa Shobo, Hero's
Inc., Nihonbungeisha, Shodensha, and Shonengahosha.
