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In/Spectre Manga Has 1.5 Million Copies in Print

The wraparound jacket band on the seventh compiled volume of Kyo Shirodaira and Chasiba Katase's In/Spectre (Kyokō Suiri or Invented Interface) manga revealed on December 15 that the manga has 1.5 million copies in print.

Kodansha Comics is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

When she was still just a girl, Kotoko was kidnapped by yokai. These spirits made her into a powerful intermediary between the spirit and human worlds, but this power came at a price: an eye and a leg. Now, years later, she watches out for dangerous yokai while developing feelings for a young man named Kuro, who is also special: an incident with a yokai has given him healing powers. He's surprised when Kotoko asks him to team up to handle renegade yokai, preserving the thin line between reality and the supernatural.

Katase launched the manga based on a novel by Shirodaira (Spiral, The Record of a Fallen Vampire, Blast of Tempest) in Kodansha's Shōnen Magazine R in April 2015. The duo ended the manga in the magazine on April 20, but launched a sequel in the same magazine on June 20.