Shinya Murata and Daichi Matsuse Debut Fantasy Ninja Manga Shinoblade
Kadokawa and Kakao Piccoma’s Manga BAR e-manga magazine launched the series on Friday.
Shinya Murata writes and storyboards Shinoblade SHINOBI BLADE, with art by Daichi Matsuse. The story follows a powerful female ninja transported to another world at the moment of her death.
Kadokawa announced Friday that Shinya Murata and Daichi Matsuse launched Shinoblade SHINOBI BLADE that day. The new series runs in Kadokawa and Kakao Piccoma’s Manga BAR e-manga magazine.
Murata handles the writing and storyboards, while Matsuse draws the art.
The story centers on the strongest female ninja, who worked in Hattori Hanzō’s shadow. At the moment of her death, she finds herself transported to another world.
Murata also launched Villainess Ranking (Akujo Ranking) with Wakata Wakuta in Kadokawa’s Monthly Dragon Age magazine on March 9.
Murata and Kazasa Sumita began Killing Bites in Monthly Hero’s in March 2017. The manga now runs on the Comiplex website. Hero’s Inc. published its 27th compiled volume on June 29.
Its television anime premiered in January 2018 on MBS and TBS’s Animeism programming block and ran for 12 episodes. An unaired “director’s cut” streamed worldwide on Amazon Prime Video.
Murata and Sumita also created The Activities of the Former Demon King Whose Strongest Skill is the Embarrassing "Begging for Her Life" and Yet She Will Use it to Run Wild and Conquer the World (Saikyō Skill "Inochigoi" de Kuyashii kedo Musō Shichau Moto Ōsama no Sekai Seifuku Katsudō).
That manga debuted on Comiplex in June 2023 and concluded with its fourth volume in December 2025.
Matsuse’s other manga work includes:
- Goblin Slayer: A Day in the Life, launched with Kumo Kagyu in Square Enix’s Monthly Big Gangan in December 2022. It ended in November 2024, and Square Enix shipped its third and final volume in February 2025.
- I Wish I Could Meet You Again on the Hill Where That Flower Blooms, drawn by Matsuse with storywriter Natsue Shiomi. Seven Seas Entertainment will begin releasing it in English in December.
- Re:ZERO -Starting Life In Another World- Chapter 1: A Day in the Capital, which Yen Press released in English.
- Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Chapter 3: Truth of Zero, also released in English by Yen Press.
