The creator of one of my favorite offbeat horror manga says the series isn't ending, Google just decided it was
Jul. 11, 2024Mieruko-chan is still very much ongoing
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Mieruko-chan is a delightfully twisted comedy horror manga about a girl who can see and hear spirits – often deeply warped and grotesque spirits – but must pretend she can’t in order to avoid their attention. It’s hit volume 10 in the original Japanese manga, the English translation is up to nine official volumes, and there’s more to come. So you can imagine the surprise of creator Tomoki Izumi when readers started asking him about the end of the manga, only to find thatGooglewas to blame.
In a (machine translated)tweet, Izumi notes that “I often wondered why people thought Mieruko-chan was finished, and when I looked into it, I found that Google had ended it on its own,” sharing a screenshot of search results indicating that the manga had ended with volume 10.
Judging from the UI, the error seems to have come from a “related questions” result in Google, with this summary (again, per machine translation) specifying “All volumes (Volumes 1-10 complete).” In replies to Izumi’s tweet, several readers said they were relieved to hear that the abrupt ending was just a mistake.
It’s unclear from this screenshot whether this was a run-of-the-mill error or specifically the result of Google’s dalliance with AI search summaries, which have burped up countless falsehoods already. The important takeaway is that, no, Mieruko-chan wasn’t canceled and isn’t over.
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