Miwako Sugiyama’s Bite Maker: AK (Area Kanazawa) is officially heading into its last bite.
According to an update from the manga’s official X account, the series will publish its final chapter on May 30 via Shogakukan’s Biccomi platform. So if you’ve been following this sequel since it started, the endgame is basically here.
For readers who only know the main series, Bite Maker: AK is the follow-up to Sugiyama’s Bite Maker: The King’s Omega — known in Japan as Bite Maker: Ōsama no Omega. The sequel first launched on Shogakukan’s Manga ONE app in May 2023, giving the franchise a new run after the original manga had already wrapped.
Shogakukan released the manga’s fifth compiled volume on November 26, which means fans should keep an eye on how the final chapters are collected after the Biccomi ending lands.
Why Malaysian and SEA manga fans should care
This is one of those manga updates that may not look massive at first glance, but it matters if you’re the kind of reader who waits for a series to finish before jumping in. A lot of us in Malaysia and SEA are used to juggling manga across digital platforms, imported physical volumes, English releases, and sometimes painfully slow licensing timelines. Knowing that Bite Maker: AK is ending gives fans a clearer signal: this sequel is no longer an open-ended commitment.
That’s useful especially for readers who discovered Bite Maker through English releases. The original manga was licensed by Seven Seas, which published its final volume in July 2024. The first series itself began in Shogakukan’s digital magazine &Flower in October 2018, ended in December 2022, and closed with its 11th volume in Japan in March 2023.
For SEA fans who prefer buying completed runs — whether through local bookstores, Kinokuniya, online retailers, or imported editions — the original series already has a proper finish in English. The big question now is whether Bite Maker: AK will eventually get the same treatment outside Japan.
A quick look at Sugiyama’s other works
Sugiyama has been active in manga for years beyond the Bite Maker line. The creator previously wrote Ai no Kotoba in 2007 and True Love in 2012, before launching the original Bite Maker in 2018.
With Bite Maker: AK ending on May 30, the franchise is reaching another clean milestone. Not every sequel gets to land with a confirmed final chapter date, so fans at least have a proper runway to catch up before the last update drops.
If you’ve been waiting to binge the sequel, this is probably your cue, bro.
Source: Anime News Network