Märchen Crown is the most recent Weekly Young Jump sequence written by Aka Akasaka and illustrated by Azychika. Furthermore, Aoi Kujira, the creator of the Greek Circle Crisis, might be contributing as a sequence composer. Akasaka is finest recognized for writing Kagua-Sama: Love Is War and Oshi no Ko, each being pretty common sequence. Right after Oshi no Ko’s ending final yr, Asakusa wasted no time in saying a new undertaking. This time, he’s taking a totally different method because the story is ready in a fantasy world based mostly on a common fairy story. Meanwhile, Azychika is a collective pen title of a group of illustrators liable for drawing the manga Record of Ragnarok.
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The launch date and the publishing journal of the sequence had been revealed in February 2025. Märchen Crown has just made its debut and is concurrently being launched in Japan. Global followers can learn the manga on the official Manga Plus app, the place you will discover Shueisha’s completed and ongoing works. Märchen Crown was being promoted as a “fairy tale romance,” so no one would have anticipated it to have such a horrifying twist.
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What Is the Plot of Märchen Crown?
The story is ready in a fantasy world the place a younger woman named Rapunzel lives on a tower on their lonesome. The tower is positioned within the center of the forest and since of the witch, no one ever dares step foot anyplace close to it. While everybody fears the witch and her powers, Rapunzel trusts the one that raised her. The witch claims the surface world is harmful and full of depraved individuals. And so, Rapunzel grew up with out ever assembly anybody aside from the witch or figuring out what the surface world was like.
That is till she meets a younger, abnormal boy from a village. The village has an previous legend that the good Northern Forest has a witch’s tower. Curious to see if the legend is true or not, he embarks on a journey to search out the tower. The boy loves climbing in excessive locations, so regardless of the danger concerned, he climbs all the way in which to the topmost room of the tower. However, as an alternative of discovering a witch, he sees a woman as stunning as a flower and blurts out the phrase “Rosa,” a multiflora.
They proceed to fulfill usually and step by step fall in love as Rapunzel’s craving for the surface world grows. She requests Mikel to take her to his village, hoping to discover the world she has solely heard about by means of his tales. While she was anticipating the world to be as stunning and charming as his tales, the truth is much higher than she realizes.
Märchen Crown Turns Dark From the First Chapter
Rapunzel was first launched as a German fairy story recorded by the Brothers Grimm as half of Children’s and Household Tales revealed in 1812. The story has had a number of variations since then whereas retaining the fundamental theme of “a girl trapped in a tower by a witch.” Most of the chapter incorporates the fundamental theme and story of Rapunzel with the primary characters already falling in love after assembly a number of instances. Rapunzel’s journey is full of anticipation and a little bit of worry as she finds the world overwhelming after being trapped within the tower for therefore lengthy.
Upon reaching Mikel’s village, she is horrified to see a unusual monster ready for them. Rapunzel is much more baffled to see that Mikel is addressing the monster as his Uncle. She makes a run for it as quickly as potential, leaving Mikel confused. We later see that the village is full of such monsters and he’s making an attempt to persuade everybody that the woman is on their facet. The eerie village might not be the one factor odd in regards to the boy as he’s genuinely confused about why she is scared as a result of that is the “outside world” she desperately needs to see.
The story has a promising begin with a shocking horror component blended into a fairy story romance. The art work is beautiful and has a totally different tone than Record of Ragnarok however remains to be intricately detailed and captures the horror moments completely. There’s a twist that the witch was proper all alongside. For now, Mikel is the one human within the village he calls house. The manga launched Chapter 0 (a prologue) and the primary chapter concurrently. The sequence might be revealed weekly, so the following chapter is predicted to drop on March twenty fifth for readers in North America.
