# Watari-kun's ****** Is About to Collapse

Watari-kun's ****** Is About to Collapse (渡くんの××が崩壊寸前, Watari-kun no xx ga Hōkaisunzen) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naru Narumi. It was originally serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine from August 2014 to June 2015. The series was later transferred to Kodansha's Monthly Young Magazine where it continued from November 2015 to September 2023. An anime television series adaptation produced by Staple Entertainment is set to premiere in July 2025.

## Characters
### Naoto Watari (渡直人, Watari Naoto)

    Voiced by: Shūichirō Umeda

### Satsuki Tachibana (館花紗月, Tachibana Satsuki)

    Voiced by: Yumika Yano [ja]

### Yukari Ishihara (石原紫, Ishihara Yukari)

    Voiced by: Yurie Igoma

## Media
### Manga

Written and illustrated by Naru Narumi, Watari-kun's ****** Is About to Collapse was initially serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine from August 4, 2014, to June 4, 2015. It was later transferred to Kodansha's Monthly Young Magazine where it continued from November 20, 2015, to September 20, 2023. The series' chapters were compiled into sixteen tankōbon volumes from February 2015 to November 2023.
During their 2019 Anime NYC panel, Kodansha USA announced that they licensed the manga in digital-only formats.
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
| 1 | February 14, 2015 (KS) May 6, 2016 (K) | 978-4-04-102797-4 (KS) 978-4-06-382780-4 (K) | December 17, 2019 | 978-1-64659-146-6 |
| 2 | June 17, 2016 | 978-4-06-382809-2 | January 28, 2020 | 978-1-64659-221-0 |
| 3 | January 6, 2017 | 978-4-06-382909-9 | February 25, 2020 | 978-1-64659-249-4 |
| 4 | July 6, 2017 | 978-4-06-510023-3 | March 24, 2020 | 978-1-64659-269-2 |
| 5 | January 5, 2018 | 978-4-06-510701-0 | April 28, 2020 | 978-1-64659-347-7 |
| 6 | September 6, 2018 | 978-4-06-512808-4 | May 26, 2020 | 978-1-64659-372-9 |
| 7 | March 6, 2019 | 978-4-06-514805-1 | June 23, 2020 | 978-1-64659-398-9 |
| 8 | October 4, 2019 | 978-4-06-517291-9 | July 28, 2020 | 978-1-64659-606-5 |
| 9 | September 4, 2020 | 978-4-06-520694-2 | March 23, 2021 | 978-1-63699-010-1 |
| 10 | March 5, 2021 | 978-4-06-522588-2 | September 7, 2021 | 978-1-63699-343-0 |
| 11 | August 5, 2021 | 978-4-06-524343-5 | June 14, 2022 | 978-1-68491-218-6 |
| 12 | February 18, 2022 | 978-4-06-526831-5 | January 31, 2023 | 978-1-68491-664-1 |
| 13 | July 20, 2022 | 978-4-06-528418-6 | April 4, 2023 | 978-1-68491-882-9 |
| 14 | January 19, 2023 | 978-4-06-530414-3 | July 11, 2023 | 979-8-88933-037-0 |
| 15 | August 18, 2023 | 978-4-06-532372-4 | February 6, 2024 | 979-8-88933-370-8 |
| 16 | November 20, 2023 | 978-4-06-532693-0 | April 16, 2024 | 979-8-88933-441-5 |

### Anime

An anime adaptation was announced in Monthly Young Magazine on September 20, 2023. It was later confirmed to be a television series produced by Staple Entertainment and directed by Takashi Naoya, with Tatsuya Takahashi handling series composition, Tetsuya Yamada writing scripts alongside Naoya, Matsuo Asami serving as assistant director and Shōko Yasuda designing the characters and serving as chief animation director alongside Yukiyo Komito, Toshimitsu Kobayashi, and Taeko Ōgi. It is set to premiere in July 2025 on Tokyo MX and other channels.