Fantagraphics’ East Asian comics imprint Takumigraphics has revealed its latest preview of Akane Torikai’s Wandering Cat’s Cage manga. Jocelyne Allen is translating the work into English, which will be released as a 334-page hardcover volume on October 27, 2026. It was originally scheduled for a May 26, 2026 release.
Torikai serialized the manga in Kadokawa’s Da Vinci magazine from June 2017 to September 2018. Two tankobon volumes were published in Japan.
Fantagraphics describes the synopsis of Wandering Cat’s Cage as:
In Akane Torikai’s Wandering Cat’s Cage, it is the near future. Only a few women are still able to menstruate, and even fewer men will be born to them. Reproduction is limited to medical intervention controlled from on high, and the structures and lives of the past hold no weight: they are only hinted at through the remaining scraps of a world that no longer exists. Life can be good, though, if you fall in line, and the women of The City live bright, happy, tightly controlled lives. But complete obedience isn’t for everyone. For the women across the river, who live in a rundown shantytown, viewing the opulence of the city from afar each night, life is different. It is humble, and often dangerous, but it is free. It is here that Sanada, a young acupuncturist, lives with the mysterious Reiho, the only male she’s ever met, and who sells himself to the rich women who sneak across the river for something they’ve never experienced …The two form a small “family,” taking in other young women ousted from the city. But a real, living, breathing male might be too precious to leave to the shabby streets. When Reiho is kidnapped at gunpoint and taken to the breeding program in the city, Sanada must join with the other outcasts to try and rescue him, and learn the difficult truths of love, self-actualization, society, community, safety, and the future itself.
The Takumigraphics imprint was first launched in 2025 and announced the license acquisitions of several manga titles, including Yudori’s Lovers of the Empire, which released its first volume earlier this August.
Wandering Cat’s Cage is the latest manga to be published by Fantagaphics in partnership with MSX: Mangasplaining Extra, which is a publishing initiative operated by the Mangasplaining podcast.
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