Yep it's back with volume 11 released end of December and volume 12 end of March.

Hanashi's license for Fruit and Another World Survival expired because the publisher stopped responding for them to negotiate the renewal, but things are patched up and both series are back in print.

Another World Survival is complete at 8 volumes and is a pretty good gritty story of survival in an unsafe isekai world. There's even a logical explanation for the game-like stats and magic system that I won't spoil.

To anyone buying AWS I'd suggest going to the Hanashi store for the DRM-free versions because Amazon made them do a weird "click a link to see this illustration" for images that had gore. Also be prepared for a couple of volumes in the middle that had a less-good translation team. After fixes those two are a bit better than Death March 23 but not great. It's back to decent translations for the later volumes. (That mess caused Hanashi to be more careful about having their own editors work with the contractors instead of trusting them too much.)

Hanashi has released a bunch of other titles over the last year including The New Gate, volume 2 will be out January 30. https://hanashi.media/

@Lex I'd say harem-ish? I haven't gone too deep in the WN translation on another site but, it seems like it's less dense herbivore and more too focused on revenge.

Volume 11 Released on January 9, 2026

Volume 11 Cover

Manga was licensed by Seven Seas

by chance, i can do it from the web browser on the talet!

Landscape on Vivaldi web browser
https://1024terabox.com/s/11bhsBAn8zGq7fwExeUi9-g

I so wish this would get a proper licensed release, anime was peak and there is so much more to the story, one can pray 🙏

@Phredis

Hi, it was also reported in our Discord Server. That escalated the issue to the manga team.

@GeorgeMTO That's a bummer, I'm a physical media guy and will read things digitally if that's the only way, (out of prints as an example) but if I have to wait for a physical copy then that's a small price to pay :-)

sorry J-novel community, I made a classic blunder
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@Geezer-Weasalopes - 23-24 are a bit like the sugar route volume where they head off away from everyone to a new land. Also a bit like 22, but without the silly goddess avatars to liven things up. Tenion says so too.

They were less interesting to me than prior volumes though partly because of 23 mangling the first half of the stoy.

From the ending of 24 they will be heading back to the normal Shiga/Saga haunts in volume 25.

I enjoyed 24, but if you're struggling to stay interested you could skip 23-24 and not miss much.

Please be assured that we're aware there is a new volume in Japan, and we're working to get that volume to readers as soon as we can. We understand that it may not be as quickly as readers would like, but we can only ask for your patience and understanding.

@TBthegr81 the price/length metric works if the experience is equally enjoyable, and a lot of people prefer more visual media like anime and manga than books.
My friends are all certified nerds but I'm still the only LN reader in the group, and when talk about anime we like and I mention that they are based on LNs that have 5x more story content, the typical answer is "cool, let's hope they'll make a season 2 then".

Volume 3 is scheduled to release in February 25, 2026

Volume 3 Cover

Volume 3 Cover

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