Caterpillar Manga Ends 5 Years After Original Artist's Passing

Original artist Isuka Hakozaki passed away in 2013, Tokisada Hayami took over as artist
This year's seventh issue of Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine revealed on Friday that writer Shinya Murata and artist Tokisada Hayami's Caterpillar manga will end in the magazine's ninth issue on April 20. The manga ends five years after Isuka Hakozaki, the manga's original artist, passed away, and Hayami took over the art for the manga.

The manga centers on Imomushi, a professional assassin from within the Organization.

Murata and Hakozaki launched the manga in Young Gangan in 2012. Square Enix published three compiled book volumes for the manga before Hakozaki passed away. Square Enix published the manga's 10th compiled book volume on January 25. The manga is a is a spin-off work of Murata and Ifuji Shinsen's Arachnid manga, which ran in Square Enix's Gangan Joker magazine from 2009 to 2015 with 14 volumes.

Murata's Killing Bites manga with artist Kazasa Sumita is inspiring a currently-airing television anime that premiered on January 12. Amazon Prime Video is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.