The Amazing Digital Circus is an independent animated series created by Gooseworx and published by Glitch Productions. When I last covered it almost a year ago, it blew up overnight gaining over 20 million views in a week while reaching over 100 million views later that same month. It has since become a worldwide sensation with many fans, fan art, videos, game mods, and more. The biggest surprise, however, was how popular the currently 2-episode long series is in Japan.
Earlier this year in Japan from April 26th to May 12th, there was an Amazing Digital Circus pop up store in Tokyo as well as another in Nagoya from July 5th to the 15th. So it comes as no surprise that eventually its popularity within Japan would lead to the creation of an official Manga. Announced on September 20th, 2024 from the official Amazing Digital Circus Japan X/Twitter account, The Amazing Digital Circus Manga will begin weekly serialization in the December issue of Corocoro Ichiban. Simultaneously it will also be serialized on Corocoro‘s monthly webpage as well. The official Manga’s art will be done by Mangaka Sakura whose previous works include ARMS: Crazy Arms Gag Fight! and A Transmigrated Vampire Would Like to Take a Nap, to name a few of her works.
As of now there is no confirmation as to which publisher will license an English translation of the manga, so for now the Manga will be mostly in Japanese.
It is exciting to see how an independent production became this successful and maintain that popularity after a year. With only 2 episodes out and a third episode set to release on October 4th, the series having a pop up store in Japan and now an official Manga series is just a sign that this wonderful Dark Comedy has left a significant impact on the world and shows no signs of stopping just yet.
Are you interested in The Amazing Digital Circus Manga? Will you read it on Corocoro? Do you have any dream publishers to license the Manga in English? Let us know down in the comments!
Feel free to follow Glitch production on X/Twitter and on YouTube to watch The Amazing Digital Circus and their other wonderful productions such as Murder Drones.
There is also the Amazing Digital Circus Japan X/twitter account where there could be more news on the official Manga once it is released. If not, you can check out Corocoro’s x/twitter for potential news and info there.
I also interviewed the lead animator from The Amazing Digital Circus, Kevin Temmer, which you can read right here on The Beat!
As always, until next time my adorable birb nerds!
