Kuroha, the manga creator best known for Chronicles of the Going Home Club, has a new series out — and this one is moving into occult club territory.
Shueisha launched Kuroha’s latest manga, titled SATANICA, on its Shonen Jump+ website on May 9. For international readers, Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service is also carrying the simulpub release, which is the key bit for Malaysia and SEA fans who want to keep up legally without waiting months for compiled volumes or fan translations.
Details from the announcement are still pretty lean, but the setup is already clear: SATANICA centres on a high school occult research club. That alone gives it a different flavour from Kuroha’s older gag-school work, and it sounds like the kind of premise that can go either comedy, supernatural chaos, or both depending on how hard the manga wants to commit.
For readers who remember Kitakubu Katsudō Kiroku — better known in English as Chronicles of the Going Home Club — Kuroha has been around this school-comedy lane for a while. That manga launched on Square Enix’s Gangan Online website back in August 2011 and wrapped up with its fifth volume in July 2014.
The series also received a TV anime adaptation in 2013. Crunchyroll streamed it during its broadcast run, while NIS America later licensed the show and released it on home video in North America in March 2015.
More recently, Kuroha worked on Datenshi-ron (Fallen Angel Theory), which began in Shueisha’s Jump SQ. magazine in September 2022. That manga ended with its third compiled volume, released in March 2024.
So SATANICA is not some random debut from nowhere — it’s Kuroha returning with another school-based concept, this time under the Shonen Jump+ banner. That platform matters because Jump+ has become a serious launchpad for manga that can blow up fast online. SEA readers already know the drill: if a series gets momentum on MANGA Plus, it can become part of the weekly manga conversation very quickly, especially on TikTok, Discord, Reddit, and local anime groups.
For Malaysian fans, the biggest win is convenience. Simulpub availability means you can check out the series close to Japan’s release timing instead of waiting for licensing news or tankōbon imports. If you’re the type who follows new manga early before anime adaptations are even announced, SATANICA is worth putting on the radar now.
No anime adaptation or English print release has been announced for SATANICA at this stage. For now, it’s a fresh Shonen Jump+ manga from a creator with past anime adaptation history, built around a high school occult research club — simple premise, decent pedigree, and easy enough for SEA fans to sample through MANGA Plus.
Source: Anime News Network