The ending point of anime and skipped chapters
The anime ended in the middle of the chapter 36. It's better to start the manga from the beginning, because the anime skips some chapters/panels and changes the order of the chapters.
If you still don't want to start from the beginning, then read chapters 9-10 (volume 2) and 23-29 (volumes 5-6) first. Then proceed forward from the chapter 36 (volume 8).
Where to read the manga
Official release
Yen Press
Square Enix
Fan translation
Chapters 1-45 - those chapters are taken from the official English translation, so I highly recommend supporting the authors by buying the original volumes!
Chapters 46-52
Chapters 53+
Chapter 54 missing pages
Volume 13 extras
Bonus Manga #13 (Seibunkan)
Bonus Manga #13 (Sanseido)
MangaSee has added chapters beyond 45, but please don't read them there. The translator of the chapters 46-52 doesn't approve of it.
How frequently do new chapters come out?
The new chapters come out on the 18th of every month.
Is there going to be a 2nd season?
We don't know. It's probable considering the popularity of the series and manga's high sales, but there's no official info.
Is the manga still ongoing/going to end soon/on hiatus?
The manga is still ongoing. There's no info about a hiatus or the manga ending as well.
The spin-offs and extra content
Houkago Shounen Hanako-kun
Chapters 1-15
Audio Drama
The pilot
Chapters 1-3
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Volume 0 extras
Translations of official tweets
Art from AidaIro's twitter
Ghost Hotel's Cafe
Hanako of the Opera
Oneshots
They are not connected to Hanako-kun series, so you can skip them. Nevertheless, they're still worth reading!
Dear My Living Dead
Fox-Masked Guardian Spirit
Nica and Killey!
I also highly recommend joining the subreddit's Discord server, because there's much more translated extra content there.
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Never did I ever think I would be so endeared to a series I was so sure was going to be toilet humor. It wasn’t, though. It was actually a fun supernatural mystery with an art style, at least in the anime, that mesmerized.
Unfortunately, all that being said, the Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun anime adaptation is what we call “spotty AF” since they only adapted like 35 chapters, but even then skipped a whole bunch. The last canon thing in the anime happens at Chapter 35, but I recommend starting at Chapter 9, if not just going to the beginning. The reason being is that it skips stuff that becomes pretty important to the plot, or at least the character relationships. At very least, start around Chapter 23 since it skips a large chunk after that.
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Toilet-bound Iro Aida’s dark fantasy manga series Hanako-kun is written and illustrated by him. It was adapted into an anime by Lerche and aired from January 9, 2020, to March 26, 2020. Nene Yashiro, a freshman high school student, chooses to summon the seventh mystery “Hanako-san of the Toilet,” who turns out to be a boy. She becomes his assistant after a series of events, and the plot follows them as
they unravel the other mysteries of Kamome Academy as well as other mysterious happenings. The Toilet-bound Hanako-kun anime differs from the manga in five ways.
The Fast Pacing
The anime’s quick speed was one of the most common criticisms among fans of Toilet-bound Hanako-kun. Lerche, the anime adaptation’s animation studio, would sometimes jam a lot of chapters into a single episode. Because Toilet-bound Hakano-kun is a monthly manga published in Monthly G Fantasy, it takes a long time for the chapters to be released.
However, due to the large number of chapters they had to alter in order to fit it into 12 episodes, the pacing was occasionally frantic.
The Early Character Cameos
Nene Yashiro and Hanako were the only characters presented to the audience at the start of Toilet-bound Hanako-kun. However, a couple of the characters appeared in the first episode of the anime.
Kou and Teru Minamoto were the first two characters to appear alongside Nene and Hanako. They were walking along the corridor talking to each other as Hanako was assisting Nene with her request.
They Skipped A Few Important Arcs
Toilet-bound Hanako-kun is a monthly manga with a large number of chapters that would be impossible to condense into a 12-episode anime series, as previously mentioned in this page. A lot of important arcs were deleted from the final production due to time constraints and production. Arcs that contained particular people or important scenes were instead wiped out totally in order for an antagonist to be presented early and get the ball moving.
The Art Is More Detailed In The Manga
The stunning art is the most eye-catching aspect of Toilet-bound Hanako-kun. While the anime does a fantastic job of incorporating the artist’s colors and unique style, nothing compares to the manga’s art.
Although the anime’s colors sparkle spectacularly, most fans feel that the manga’s stills and concepts far transcend the anime. In certain cases, the proportions are better in the manga.
The Arrangement Of Chapters
This is one of the most common criticisms of the anime adaptation of Toilet-bound Hanako-kun. While they skipped certain chapters, they also shuffled the order of others.
The first episode is a good illustration of this, as Nene’s meeting with Hanako was a separate chapter, and the mermaid arc came later in the chapters. In the final episode, an additional chapter was added at the end rather than in the middle.
What do you think about these differences? Share with us your thoughts and we can discuss more about this interesting anime!