Tow Ubukata, Hikaru Tanaka Launch Anastasia of the Blood Pact Manga on December 12

The official X/Twitter account for Kadokawa and kakao piccoma’s Manga BAR digital manga magazine revealed on Sunday that Tow Ubukata and Hikaru Tanaka will launch a new manga titled Anastasia of the Blood Pact (Kekkei no Anastasia) in the magazine on December 12. The magazine teases the manga as a vampire action love story.

🦇冲方丁　完全新作!!🌙
ヴァンパイア🦇
×アクション⚔
×ラブストーリー💖

冲方丁オリジナル原作マンガ
『血契のアナスタシア』
12/12（金）週刊連載開始！

原作：冲方丁（@ubukata_summit）
漫画：田中ひかる（@c10wn23）

ピッコマ内マンガレーベル
「MANGAバル」にて毎週金曜日更新！ https://t.co/JEtxPDvIxe pic.twitter.com/sY8xC66R3h

— 冲方サミット (@ubukata_summit) December 1, 2025

Ubukata’s Mardock Scramble novels have inspired anime film and manga adaptations. Ubukata has also written the scripts for anime such as Ghost in the Shell Arise, Heroic Age, Fafner, Psycho-Pass 2, and Human Lost. Wit Studio and Ubukata unveiled the Moonrise project in December 2018, and an English prologue novel for the project debuted that month. The project’s anime debuted on Netflix on April 10. Ubukata’s Bye Bye, Earth novels inspired a television anime with a first season in July 2024, and a second season that premiered on April 4.

Yen Press previously released Tanaka’s Scarlet Empire (Kōkoku no Hiiro) manga digitally in English. The manga serialized in Square Enix‘s G Fantasy magazine from March 2013 to April 2015.

Sources: Manga BAR’s X/Twitter account, Tow Ubukata‘s X/Twitter account

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