Exciting news for fans of compelling sci-fi manga! Ryuhei Tanaka’s gripping series, COSMOS, has been honored with a prestigious second-place finish in the Print category at the Next Manga Award 2025. This impressive achievement comes as the manga also celebrates the recent launch of its seventh volume, with the team behind COSMOS unveiling a duo of exhilarating new promotional videos.
While ‘Ichi the Witch’ claimed the top spot this year, COSMOS’s strong showing highlights its growing popularity and compelling narrative. One of the newly released videos dives deep into the action and captivating storyline that earned COSMOS its accolades, offering fans a thrilling glimpse into its universe. The second video specifically celebrates and promotes the highly anticipated seventh volume, now available to readers.
Authored by Ryuhei Tanaka, COSMOS is serialized in Shogakukan’s Monthly Sunday Gene-X magazine. Since its debut in April 2023, the series has rapidly expanded, now boasting a collection of seven compelling volumes. For English-speaking audiences, VIZ Media is making the series accessible, offering their own compelling description of the first volume:
The adventure begins when Kaede embarks on a search for a missing classmate, only to uncover the astonishing truth: his friend is actually an alien discreetly living among humans. Impressed by Kaede’s unexpected helpfulness, the astute and formidable insurance investigator Rin recruits him. What follows is a whirlwind of events—Kaede’s job interview quickly escalates into an epic confrontation on a busy commuter train, revealing alien deception and even a hidden spaceship. Before he can fully process his decision to join Rin, Kaede stumbles upon yet another extraterrestrial presence, this one harboring a poignant and tragic tale.