Abe’s manga reimagines the setting from the classic Hakkenden samurai novel as a female-oriented story with supernatural elements.
Amazon Japan is listing the 19th compiled book volume of Miyuki Abe’s Hakkenden: Tōhō Hakken Ibun manga with a cover image that notes that the manga is “entering the climax.”
Sentai Filmworks released the first season on home video in May 2014 under the title Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East.
Abe then switched publishers to Kadokawa Shoten in 2011, and began serializing the manga in the publisher’s Ciel magazine.