Toshiko Machida’s Hanako Hunt Manga Concludes on Pocket Magazine
Kodansha will release the third and final collected volume on September 9.
Pocket Magazine published the final chapter of Toshiko Machida’s Hanako Hunt on August 27. The manga follows a government organization that claims to protect spirits while secretly hunting and disposing of them.
Kodansha’s Pocket Magazine platform published the final chapter of Toshiko Machida’s Hanako Hunt (Hanako-gari) manga on August 27.
Machida began the series on the platform in September 2025. Kodansha shipped its second compiled volume on March 9. The third and final volume will arrive on September 9.
The story takes place in a world overrun by spirits. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government creates an organization supposedly tasked with finding and protecting these beings, which it renames “Hanako.” In reality, the government hunts and disposes of them.
Machida’s The Demon Consort: "I Love You" Are Frightening Words began on NTT Solmare’s Comic CMOA platform in March 2024 and concluded in April 2025.
Shinchosha shipped that manga’s third and final volume in August 2025. Yen Press publishes the English edition and shipped its first volume on August 25.
Sources: Magazine Pocket via ANN
