List of UQ Holder! chapters
UQ Holder! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Akamatsu. It began its serialization in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine on August 28, 2013. Its individual chapters have been collected into twenty-four tankōbon volumes by Kodansha, the first released on December 17, 2013. The story is set in the same universe as Akamatsu's previous work Negima! Magister Negi Magi, but over 70 years later, it follows the adventures of a young boy named Tōta Konoe who is transformed into a vampire by his foster parent Yukihime and joins a secret society composed of immortal beings called UQ Holder.
The series is licensed for English language release in North America by Kodansha USA under the Kodansha Comics imprint, who published the first volume on March 18, 2014. As the series is published in Japan, it is also released simultaneously in English digitally by Crunchyroll. Individual chapters of the series are called stages.
Volumes list
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1 | December 17, 2013[1] | 978-4-06-394990-2 | March 18, 2014[2] | 978-1-61262-933-9 (NA) ISBN 978-1-61262-933-9 (UK) | ||
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Village boy Tōta Konoe and his friends have been training to someday beat their school teacher Yukihime in physical combat so they can go to the big city. Using a bracelet to restrict Yukihime's power, Tachibana, a teacher who is actually a bounty hunter, attacks Yukihime, and mortally wounds Tōta. Yukihime, who is actually Evangeline A.K. McDowell, a 700-year-old vampire mage, has Tōta drink her blood to realize his powers as an immortal vampire which she bestowed to him two years prior. Tōta defeats Tachibana, and the two leave the village to journey to the city. Along the way, they meet some village kids including Shinobu Yuki who aspires to be a spaceship racer. Tota meets Kurōmaru Tokisaka, a feminine-looking boy who is actually an assassin sent to slay Yukihime. Kurōmaru and Tōta agree to fight, but Kurōmaru loses, and Tōta's condition is that Kurōmaru be his best friend. At a hot springs spa town, Tōta and Kurōmaru challenge Yukihime to steal her bath towel. Kurōmaru agrees to be Yukihime's disciple, and Tōta talks about wanting to form a team of immortals to help the world. As her assistants arrive to retrieve her and the boys, Yukihime reveals she has already formed a group of immortal beings called UQ Holder. | ||||||
2 | March 17, 2014[3] | 978-4-06-395037-3 | July 8, 2014[4] | 978-1-61262-935-3 (NA) ISBN 978-1-61262-935-3 (UK) | ||
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At UQ Holder headquarters, Yukihime's attendants immediately celebrate her return. When Tōta declares he is joining UQ Holder, he and Kurōmaru are given a trial of having to escape from the underground area with a time limit of eight years. They meet UQ Holder leader Jinbei Shishido, who trains the two and has Tōta master the gravity blade. After a month, Tōta and Kurōmaru defeat the monsters. They work with UQ Holder member Karin Yuuki to defend a village from some land sharks and an attacker named Wrecking Ball. After being defeated by Kurōmaru and Karin in arm wrestling, Tōta trains in the movement art of shundō where he learns some techniques from a passing martial artist named Kaito. Karin learns of Kurōmaru's characteristic of being genderless, and tells Kurōmaru to choose being a female. Chao Xinxai, a special forces member of the immortal hunting group PMSCS, attacks Karin. | ||||||
3 | June 17, 2014[5] | 978-4-06-395085-4 | November 11, 2014[6] | 978-1-61262-937-7 (NA) ISBN 978-1-61262-937-7 (UK) | ||
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PMSCS's Powerful Hand group attacks the UQ Holder members at the city slums while burning down the city. A werewolf binds Tōta with a sealing spell, leaving Kurōmaru to fight him. Meanwhile, Karin fights and defeats the shadow puppet master mage Chao Xinxai. The werewolf is winning when one of the kids Ruki tries to protect Kurōmaru and Tōta is able to break the binding spell with the powerful transformation Magia Erebea. Tōta defeats the werewolf, who is revealed to be Kaito, but spares his life. Nagumo attacks Karin, sending her to the Moon. Nagumo has the PMSCS capture Tōta, but Yukihime and the other UQ Holder members arrive. | ||||||
4 | September 17, 2014[7] | 978-4-06-395191-2 | March 17, 2015[8] | 978-1-61262-832-5 (NA) ISBN 978-1-61262-832-5 (UK) | ||
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Jinbei defeats Nagumo, and Yukihime uses her ice spell to put out the fires. Tōta accompanies Kirië Sakurame, a UQ Holder member and primary patron of the group who has the ability to rewind time, using it to survive multiple assassination attempts, later revealed to be coming from Chao Xinxai. Their mission is to meet with Fate Averruncus, UQ Holder's enemy and former friend/rival of Negi Springfield, and to stop him from claiming Tōta's head and from destroying UQ Holder. The mission is almost a failure as Fate almost takes Tōta's friends hostage and petrifies Kirië. Tōta and the others are forced to fight Fate and his assistants. But Kirië's petrification expires and she is able to pull Fate and the others back in time with her. | ||||||
5 | December 17, 2014[9] | 978-4-06-395269-8 | July 7, 2015[10] | 978-1-61262-833-2 (NA) ISBN 978-1-61262-833-2 (UK) | ||
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After Fate and Evangeline fight, Fate offers to answer questions posed by the UQ Holder members, during which Tota learns that Fate wants to use him in order to find Negi Springfriend and to save the world, but that Fate also killed Tota's parents. Although Tota doesn't agree to follow Fate, he agrees to train up before meeting him again. Tota, Kuromaru, Karin, and Ikku work undercover as students of the city academy in order to track down an immortal who has been murdering students. They room with shut-in student Santa Sasaki, who unbeknownst to the gang, had been tracking the UQ Holder members and seems to be the immortal they are looking for. Kuromaru learns that Santa has been dead for eight years and he is a vengeful spirit called a revenant. But more murders occur, and Karin is attacked by Sayoko, who was the actual murderer, and the necromancer that turned Santa into the revenant. | ||||||
6 | March 17, 2015[11] | 978-4-06-395349-7 | November 24, 2015[12] | 978-1-63236-119-6 | ||
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Sayoko uses a virus that turns the students and city folk into a horde of zombies. She disables Kirie, preventing her from going back to the save point, and then defeats Tota and the others. Breaking free of Sayoko's influence, Santa tries to help the populace. He thinks about his past with Sayoko, and how he was murdered, but that he no longer wants revenge. While Tota and Karin recover from the virus, Tota has to deal with Kuromaru. Santa is able to reach Sayoko and convince her to stop the killing, after which Sayoko dissipates into sakura flower petals. Kirie takes the gang back to the save point; Santa brings two of the petals, at which Sayoko then acknowledges she has been defeated and that it is time for her to leave the world. Santa joins UQ Holder. The gang pay a visit to the baths, during which Kuromaru struggles with his feelings for Tota now that he has another comrade in Santa. | ||||||
7 | June 17, 2015[13] | 978-4-06-395421-0 | March 8, 2016[14] | 978-1-63236-209-4 | ||
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Tota meets Mana Tatsumiya, a former student of Negi and the acting director for Amanomihashira Academy, who informs him of an upcoming magic/fighting tournament that will give him a chance to go to the orbital station. When Yukihime learns that Negi Springfield is entering the tournament, and that the message was authenticated by Fate, she cancels Tota's registration and forbids him from entering, as she will personally see to the matter. Tota leaves the headquarters and meets a prospective fighter who explains how one can enter the tournament by accumulating points in a qualification round. When Tota is attacked by a girl in a cloak who is able to defeat him, his comrades at UQ Holder save him. The girl tells him that he is not the grandson of Negi Springfield, but a cheap clone. But the girl threatens to destroy the city unless Tota makes it into the tournament. | ||||||
8 | September 17, 2015[15] | 978-4-06-395421-0 | July 19, 2016[16] | 978-1-63236-271-1 | ||
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9 | December 17, 2015[17] | 978-4-06-395563-7 | November 8, 2016[18] | 978-1-63236-308-4 | ||
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10 | March 17, 2016[19] | 978-4-06-395620-7 | March 14, 2017[20] | 978-1-63236-353-4 | ||
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11 | July 15, 2016[21] | 978-4-06-395712-9 | July 25, 2017[22] | 978-1-63236-444-9 | ||
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12 | November 17, 2016[23] | 978-4-06-395801-0 | November 14, 2017[24] | 978-1-63236-578-1 | ||
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13 | April 7, 2017[25] | 978-4-06-395908-6 | March 13, 2018[26] | 978-1-63236-579-8 | ||
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14 | September 8, 2017[27][28] | 978-4-06-510179-7 ISBN 978-4-06-397034-0 (limited edition) | July 31, 2018[29] | 978-1-63236-629-0 | ||
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15 | November 9, 2017[30] | 978-4-06-510380-7 | November 20, 2018[31] | 978-1-63236-689-4 | ||
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16 | March 9, 2018[32] | 978-4-06-511061-4 | March 19, 2019[33] | 978-1-63236-737-2 | ||
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17 | June 8, 2018[34][35] | 978-4-06-511572-5 ISBN 978-4-06-397036-4 (limited edition) | July 30, 2019[36] | 978-1-63236-802-7 | ||
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18 | October 9, 2018[37] | 978-4-06-512985-2 | November 26, 2019[38] | 978-1-63236-858-4 | ||
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19 | February 8, 2019[39] | 978-4-06-513866-3 | March 31, 2020[40] | 978-1-63236-928-4 | ||
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20 | June 7, 2019[41] | 978-4-06-515302-4 | July 28, 2020[42] | 978-1-63236-978-9 | ||
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21 | October 9, 2019[43] | 978-4-06-517154-7 | November 24, 2020[44] | 978-1-64651-076-4 | ||
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22 | February 7, 2020[45] | 978-4-06-518165-2 | - | — | ||
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23 | July 9, 2020[46] | 978-4-06-519302-0 | - | — | ||
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24 | November 9, 2020[47] | 978-4-06-521109-0 | - | — |
Chapters not yet in tankōbon format
These chapters have yet to be published in a tankōbon volume. They were originally serialized in Japanese in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from July to September 2020 and in English in issues of Crunchyroll Manga from July 2019.
- 173. "Training from Hell" (地獄の特訓, "Jigoku no Tokkun")
- 174. "Mizore and Shinobu" (みぞれとしのぶ, "Mizore to Shinobu")
- 175. "2131" (2131年, "2131-nen")
- 176. "Pain" (痛み, "Itami")
- 177. "The Last One" (最後の一人, Saigo no Hitori)
- 178. "40 Years Late" (40年の遅刻, 40-nen no Chikoku)
- 179. "The Akashic Skywheel" (アカシャの天輪, Akasha no Tenwa)
References
- UQ HOLDER!(1) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
- "UQ Holder 1". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- UQ HOLDER!(2) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
- "UQ Holder 2". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- UQ HOLDER!(3) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
- "UQ Holder 3". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- UQ HOLDER!(4) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
- "UQ Holder 4". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- UQ HOLDER!(5) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
- "UQ Holder 5". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- UQ HOLDER!(6) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 19, 2014.
- "UQ Holder 6". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- UQ HOLDER!(7) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- "UQ Holder 7". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- UQ HOLDER!(8) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
- "UQ Holder 8". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- UQ HOLDER!(9) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- "UQ Holder 9". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
- UQ HOLDER!(10) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
- "UQ Holder 10". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved August 9, 2016.
- UQ HOLDER!(11) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
- "UQ Holder 11". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
- UQ HOLDER!(12) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
- "UQ Holder 12". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
- UQ HOLDER!(13) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
- "UQ Holder 13". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- UQ HOLDER!(14) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
- DVD付き UQ HOLDER!(14) 限定版 (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
- "UQ Holder 14". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- UQ HOLDER!(15) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
- "UQ Holder 15". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- UQ HOLDER!(16) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
- "UQ Holder 16". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- UQ HOLDER!(17) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
- DVD付き UQ HOLDER!(17) 限定版 (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
- "UQ Holder 17". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- UQ HOLDER!(18) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- "UQ Holder 18". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
- UQ HOLDER!(19) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- "UQ Holder 19". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
- UQ HOLDER!(20) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
- "UQ Holder 20". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
- UQ HOLDER!(21) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
- "UQ Holder 21". Kodansha Comics. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
- UQ HOLDER!(22) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
- UQ HOLDER!(23) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
- UQ HOLDER!(24) (in Japanese). Kodansha. Retrieved November 1, 2020.