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November 23

Something confuring me with Metamorphosis (manga) (NSFW)

How can the manga be "originally published between between 2013 and 2016" if there is only one volume according to the infobox? Trade (talk) 00:56, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fairly sure that it was originally published in monthly installments in the manga magazine X-EROS (alongside installments of various other stories), and only afterwards (re)published complete in its own volume. This is a common comics practice worldwide. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} ~2025-31359-08 (talk) 01:26, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Our article specifically mentions: Henshin was first serialized in Japan in Comic X-Eros from 26 July 2013 to 26 March 2016. Before being published as a single tankōbon volume. As the temp account above mentions, this is a pretty standard practice. Amstrad00 (talk) 13:48, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is "volume" in the sense of a run of issues of a periodical. Not "volume" as in a single book. This is also common terminology in comics worldwide. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 15:35, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So then "Volumes 1" is incorrect. The hentai originally appeared in serialized form in seven installments, each being one chapter, distributed across issues of Comic X-Eros that were published within a time span of almost three years. It seems that the magazine does not use volume numbers. ‑‑Lambiam 09:28, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

December 7