Production
The manga series Hibiki's Magic is written by Jun Maeda and illustrated by Rei Izumi. As stated at the back of the first volume, Maeda first conceived Hibiki's Magic as a short story he wrote as a student, and the story contains an unspecified theme that he has carried through a lot of stories since. In 2003, he wanted to collaborate with Izumi, one of his favorite artists, and remembered his earlier concept that would become Hibiki's Magic. After Izumi drew some early character designs for Hibiki, Maeda wanted to continue the story and start a manga with Izumi as the artist.
The manga premiered in the August 2004 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's Shōnen Ace. It was later transferred to another Kadokawa Shoten magazine named Comp Ace on November 26, 2005. Two tankōbon volumes have been released in Japan, the first on August 10, 2005, and the second on December 26, 2006. Hibiki's Magic has rarely appeared in Comp Ace since the publication of volume fifteen on May 26, 2007. Since then, the manga has only appeared once in Comp Ace's August 2008 issue, and once in a special edition of the magazine's July 2011 issue titled Key Station. A bonus chapter appeared in the September 2008 issue of Comp Ace. Seven chapters have been published in the magazine but not into a volume yet. Maeda wrote in January 2010 that he still plans to continue the story, but must wait for Izumi's physical condition to improve before this is possible.
At Comic-Con International 2006, Tokyopop announced that it had acquired Hibiki's Magic for distribution in English in North America. Tokyopop released the first volume on January 9, 2007, followed by the second volume on September 11, 2007. Kadokawa Media licensed the series in Chinese.
| No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN | North American release date | North American ISBN | |
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| 1 | August 10, 2005 | ISBN 978-4-04713-713-4 | January 9, 2007 | ISBN 978-1-59816-766-5 | |
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| 2 | December 26, 2006 | ISBN 978-4-04713-866-7 | September 11, 2007 | ISBN 978-1-4278-0458-7 | |
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