Suikoden Star Leap manga run ends in Comic Flapper
Aki Shimizu’s adaptation of the mobile RPG closed its run in Comic Flapper, with the game still Japan-only for now.
The manga adaptation of Suikoden: Star Leap has ended. The final chapter of Aki Shimizu’s series ran in the October issue of Kadokawa’s Comic Flapper, published on 4 September.
What's actually going on
Shimizu launched the adaptation in November 2025, so the run lasted less than a year — an unusually short life for a manga, and a sign of what it was for. Star Leap is a mobile revival of Konami’s long-dormant role-playing series, and the comic arrived alongside it as part of the marketing push rather than as an independent project.
The game itself launched in Japan on 7 August 2026 for iOS and Android. No release date outside Japan has been announced, and the game’s English account has not given a timeline. Konami has confirmed that the global version will also come to PC via Steam.
Konami’s official site sets the story in Solar Year 453, opening by a lakeside village east of the Scarlet Moon Empire. The hero, the village chief Hou’s son, returns home from his first successful hunt to a celebration — and then an assault changes the village’s fate in an instant. He sets out with Hisui, Shirin and Shapur to restore peace. The premise hangs on the Rune of Change, one of the 27 True Runes said to have created the world, and the story sits after Suikoden V and before the first game.
Star Leap is one part of a wider revival Konami announced in March 2025, which also covers an anime, a new mobile game, a stage play and a concert. The Suikoden I&II HD Remaster launched in March 2025 across Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and PC.
Why you should care
A manga ending this quickly tells you what kind of manga it was. Tie-in comics attached to game launches often stop when the campaign winds down, and a final chapter in the same year does not mean anything is wrong with either the comic or the game. It simply means the promotional run is over.
The more interesting question is the release plan. The Japanese version is live, the manga adaptation has already finished, and overseas players still have no date. That puts English-speaking fans in the odd position of watching a companion story conclude before they can play the game it was built to promote. The Steam confirmation at least suggests a proper global launch is planned rather than an afterthought.
Our opinion
Star Leap is doing what a revival has to do first: re-establish that the series still exists and that Konami is willing to spend on it. The HD remasters did the easy part by reselling beloved games. A new entry in the timeline, set between Suikoden V and the original, is the harder and more interesting bet, and it is the one that will decide whether the revival has legs.
The short manga run is a footnote, not a warning sign. What matters is whether the global launch arrives with the care the Japanese release got, and whether Konami treats Steam as a real platform for the series rather than a checkbox. Readers with patience will get their answer later this year.
Sources: Konami; Comic Flapper.