Lycoris Recoil Shorts to Receive Manga by Yasunori Bizen
Monthly Comic Flapper will launch the adaptation in its February 2027 issue, with a run of about six months.
Yasunori Bizen will adapt the six-episode Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. shorts into manga. The announcement came Thursday, when Bizen's existing Lycoris Recoil adaptation ended.
Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Flapper announced Thursday on its official X (formerly Twitter) account that Yasunori Bizen will adapt the Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. anime shorts into manga.
The adaptation will begin in the magazine's February 2027 issue. Bizen also announced it on their X/Twitter account, saying the short serialization would last about six months.
Bizen's existing Lycoris Recoil manga adaptation concluded Thursday in the magazine's December issue.
The six-episode shorts follow the daily lives of the characters at Café LycoReco. They debuted on Aniplex's official YouTube channel in April 2025 and also streamed on Aniplex USA's YouTube channel and Crunchyroll.
Bizen began the Lycoris Recoil manga in Monthly Comic Flapper in September 2022. Kadokawa released its ninth collected volume on August 21. Yen Press released the fifth volume on June 23.
The Lycoris Recoil television anime premiered in July 2022. Crunchyroll streamed it as it aired in Japan and also offered an English dub. The series also aired on Adult Swim's Toonami block in January 2024.
Asaura's spinoff novel Lycoris Recoil: Ordinary Days surpassed 250,000 copies in circulation in 2022.
The television anime's creative team included:
- Shingo Adachi, making his directorial debut after serving as character designer and chief animation director on Sword Art Online and Wagnaria!! (Working!!).
- Imigimuru (This Art Club Has a Problem!), who handled the television anime's designs.
- A-1 Pictures, which produced the project.
- Asaura, the Ben-To author, who drafted the story.
- Kimika Onai, whose credits include Nogizaka46 and Sakurazaka46 outfits, who designed the characters' uniforms.
