Kasumi Yasuda’s “Fool Night” manga has sold one million copies.

The official X page of manga author Kasumi Yasuda announced that his manga series "Fool Night" has sold 1 million copies after the release of the 13th volume of the manga last Tuesday, June 30th.

The story centers on a time when the Earth is covered in thick dust and constant clouds where the sun no longer shines, natural vegetation has withered, and oxygen levels are dangerously low. To prevent human extinction, society relies on Transfloration, a controversial technology that implants seeds into people to transform them into plants that generate oxygen.

Toshiro Kamiya is a young, impoverished man crushed by debt who decides to undergo Transfloration to secure money for his ill mother, even though he is not terminally ill. After the procedure, Toshiro does not just become a standard plant; he gains the unique ability to hear the thoughts and voices of Spiriflora, a human who has been transformed into a plant.

Recruited by Transflora Medical as a special worker, Toshiro gets pulled into a dark mystery involving murders committed by a Spiriflora, uncovering deep conspiracies, predatory capitalism, and the grim reality behind society's survival.

The manga series was published in Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior magazine in November 2020 and released in 13 manga volumes. It also received recognition, including a nomination for Best Comic at the 50th Angoulême International Comics Festival and 12th runner-up in Takarajimasha's This Manga is Amazing guidebook for male readers in 2023, and a nomination in the Print Manga category at the Next Manga Awards in 2022.

Viz Media licensed the series and released it in English, with the first manga volume released in June 2024.

It was adapted into an anime series, which will stream on Netflix on Thursday, November 26th.
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Source:
- Kasumi Yasuda's X page - https://x.com/calcium0550/status/2118351196503322774
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Photo:
- © Kasumi Yasuda/Shogakukan • Fool Night Production Committee.