{"rewrite":{"id":"r_8db41142ebf6acee49d6af9a","clusterId":"c_ba38d48b49999bf984179a71","slug":"kadokawa-taps-yasunori-bizen-for-friends-are-thieves-of-time-manga","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Kadokawa Taps Yasunori Bizen for Friends Are Thieves of Time Manga","summary":"Monthly Comic Flapper announced on Thursday that Yasunori Bizen will launch a manga adaptation of the Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. anime shorts in the magazine's February 2027 issue. Bizen said the serialization will run about six months. The artist's adaptation of the main Lycoris Recoil manga ended in the December issue the same day.","whyItMatters":"The short-film spin-off gets the same magazine and artist as the main Lycoris Recoil manga, with a roughly six-month run, so the franchise's anime-side material is being folded into Comic Flapper's existing pipeline right as that pipeline loses the main series.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe February 2027 issue of Monthly Comic Flapper will carry the launch of Yasunori Bizen\u0026#39;s adaptation of the six-episode short series, which centered on daily life at Cafe LycoReco. The same magazine closed out Bizen\u0026#39;s Lycoris Recoil adaptation in its December issue on Thursday.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBizen put a length on the new work: about six months of serialization. The shorts debuted on Aniplex\u0026#39;s official YouTube channel in April 2025 and also streamed on Aniplex USA\u0026#39;s channel and on Crunchyroll. Kadokawa shipped the ninth compiled volume of Bizen\u0026#39;s Lycoris Recoil manga on August 21, and Yen Press shipped the fifth volume in English on June 23.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Yasunori Bizen's adaptation of Friends Are Thieves of Time runs six months, and it starts after the main Lycoris Recoil manga ends. Bizen will write the shorts and close the main series the same month.","twitterPost":"Yasunori Bizen's Friends Are Thieves of Time manga runs six months, ending as his main Lycoris Recoil adaptation wraps in the December issue.","threadsPost":"Yasunori Bizen closes his main Lycoris Recoil manga in the December issue and opens Friends Are Thieves of Time in the February 2027 issue of Monthly Comic Flapper. The short films get about six months of serialization while the main series ends.","newsletterBlurb":"Monthly Comic Flapper announced that Yasunori Bizen will adapt the Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. shorts into a manga starting in the February 2027 issue. Bizen expects a serialization of about six months. Bizen's adaptation of the main Lycoris Recoil manga ended in the December issue on Thursday.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-11-05/lycoris-recoil-friends-are-thieves-of-time-anime-short-films-get-manga-adaptation/.243556\",\"title\":\"Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time. 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