Kyodo Printing Co., Ltd.’s Kodama Tales subsidiary announced on its Twitter/X account last week that it will release Hiroki Miyashita‘s Me and the Alien MuMu sci-fi comedy manga series in English on February 1, 2026.
The cat’s out of the bag!! 🐱
— Kodama (@KodamaTales) September 1, 2025
Ever wonder how a microwave works? Well… it might just save your planet one day.
Preorder Me and the Alien Mumu now and explore the mysteries of your home appliances, one beeping button at a time! 🚀🐾
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The first volume is now available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Miyashita’s manga was first serialized in Shonengahosha’s Young King OURs magazine on June 28, 2019. Eight tankobon volumes have been released as of April 2025. The series began as a one-shot that was released in Young King OURs on April 30, 2019.
The manga has inspired a currently airing TV anime adaptation from OLM that first aired in Japan on April 9, 2025. It is running two consecutive cours and will consist of 24 total episodes.
Kodama Tales describes the main synopsis of the Me and the Alien MuMu manga as:
An alien named Mumu is a survivor of a civil war that saw the destruction of his planet’s scientists, leaving only its fools alive. In an attempt to understand the advanced technology his people left behind, he’s infiltrated earth, a planet with a lower level of civilization, to study their so-called “home appliances,” which contain facets of all technological knowledge. So begins the adventures of Sakurako, a university freshman and Mumu’s new and unexpected accomplice, as she navigates a wild and exciting campus life.
