# Murciélago (manga)

Murciélago (ムルシエラゴ, Murushierago) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshimurakana. It began serialization in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Young Gangan in August 2013.

## Media
### Manga

Written and illustrated by Yoshimurakana, Murciélago began serialization in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Young Gangan on August 16, 2013. The series' chapters have been compiled into twenty-six tankōbon volumes as of February 2025.
During their Anime Expo 2016 panel, Yen Press announced that they licensed the series for English publication.
A spin-off manga focusing on the character Reiko Kuchiba, titled Murciélago Byproduct Araña and illustrated by Shin Arakawa, was serialized on Square Enix's Manga Up! app from January 12, 2018, to June 26, 2020. The spin-off's chapters were compiled into five volumes from June 25, 2018 to July 22, 2020.

#### Volumes

| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | North American release date | North American ISBN |
| 1 | April 25, 2014 | 978-4-7575-4290-7 | January 24, 2017 | 978-0-3165-0460-7 |
| 2 | April 25, 2014 | 978-4-7575-4291-4 | May 30, 2017 | 978-0-3164-7164-0 |
| 3 | September 25, 2014 | 978-4-7575-4425-3 | August 22, 2017 | 978-0-3164-7318-7 |
| 4 | February 25, 2015 | 978-4-7575-4564-9 | November 7, 2017 | 978-0-3164-7319-4 |
| 5 | July 25, 2015 | 978-4-7575-4701-8 | January 30, 2018 | 978-0-3164-7320-0 |
| 6 | November 25, 2015 | 978-4-7575-4808-4 | April 24, 2018 | 978-0-3164-7321-7 |
| 7 | March 25, 2016 | 978-4-7575-4923-4 | July 24, 2018 | 978-0-3164-7323-1 |
| 8 | August 25, 2016 | 978-4-7575-5085-8 | October 30, 2018 | 978-1-9753-0247-4 |
| 9 | January 25, 2017 | 978-4-7575-5225-8 | January 22, 2019 | 978-1-9753-0248-1 |
| 10 | July 25, 2017 | 978-4-7575-5430-6 | April 30, 2019 | 978-1-9753-0249-8 |
| 11 | December 25, 2017 | 978-4-7575-5561-7 | August 6, 2019 | 978-1-9753-0250-4 |
| 12 | June 25, 2018 | 978-4-7575-5760-4 | November 12, 2019 | 978-1-9753-3202-0 |
| 13 | January 25, 2019 | 978-4-7575-5958-5 | January 28, 2020 | 978-1-9753-3205-1 |
| 14 | March 25, 2019 | 978-4-7575-6070-3 | May 5, 2020 | 978-1-9753-0793-6 |
| 15 | July 25, 2019 | 978-4-7575-6211-0 | August 25, 2020 | 978-1-9753-0897-1 |
| 16 | January 23, 2020 | 978-4-7575-6478-7 | December 1, 2020 | 978-1-9753-1672-3 |
| 17 | July 22, 2020 | 978-4-7575-6763-4 | December 21, 2021 | 978-1-9753-3579-3 |
| 18 | December 24, 2020 | 978-4-7575-7011-5 | January 18, 2022 | 978-1-9753-3641-7 |
| 19 | May 25, 2021 | 978-4-7575-7268-3 | May 24, 2022 | 978-1-9753-4433-7 |
| 20 | October 25, 2021 | 978-4-7575-7538-7 | November 22, 2022 | 978-1-9753-4970-7 |
| 21 | March 25, 2022 | 978-4-7575-7835-7 | May 23, 2023 | 978-1-9753-6485-4 |
| 22 | August 25, 2022 | 978-4-7575-8087-9 | October 17, 2023 | 978-1-9753-6487-8 |
| 23 | April 25, 2023 | 978-4-7575-8534-8 | February 27, 2024 | 978-1-9753-7914-8 |
| 24 | November 25, 2023 | 978-4-7575-8911-7 | September 17, 2024 | 978-1-9753-9864-4 |
| 25 | June 25, 2024 | 978-4-7575-9269-8 | August 26, 2025 | 979-8-8554-1466-0 |
| 26 | February 25, 2025 | 978-4-7575-9688-7 | — | — |

#### Murciélago Byproduct Araña

| No. | Release date | ISBN |
| 1 | June 25, 2018 | 978-4-7575-5761-1 |
| 2 | January 25, 2019 | 978-4-7575-5959-2 |
| 3 | July 25, 2019 | 978-4-7575-6212-7 |
| 4 | January 23, 2020 | 978-4-7575-6479-4 |
| 5 | July 22, 2020 | 978-4-7575-6764-1 |

### Other

The series has had collaborations with gravure idol Hikaru Aoyama, cosplayers Nekomu Otogi and Hina Takane, and the manga series Caterpillar by Shinya Murata and Tokisada Hayami, and Trash by Kenji Yamamoto and DP.
A motion comic featuring the voice of Romi Park was released on the website ENSOKU on July 3, 2015.

## Reception

The series was recommended by novelist Yusuke Kishi.