© Yoshiaki, Shogakukan
VIZ Media announced on its Twitter/X account Thursday that it has introduced a new VIZ Manga simulpub release for Yoshiaki’s sci-fi action comedy manga series Rai Rai Rai. Most chapters of the manga can now be accessed on the VIZ Manga app and website, with a few select chapters available for free reading.
New simulpub series Rai Rai Rai by Yoshiaki joins VIZ Manga!
If Sumire Ichigaya thought drowning in debt was bad enough, her problems are about to get real extraterrestrial when she gets abducted by a UFO!
Read the series in the app! https://t.co/sGNNYmvabB pic.twitter.com/RuuGKIxut9
— VIZ Media (@VIZMedia) May 2, 2025
The manga began serialization on Shogakukan’s Ura Sunday website and MangaONE app on August 18, 2023. Four tankobon volumes have been published as of January 2025. VIZ licensed the manga for English print release in October 2024.
The series was nominated for the 10th Next Manga Awards in the web category in 2024 and secured seventh place in Takarajimasha’s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2025 guidebook.
- Hart, Christopher (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 144 Pages - 07/07/2015 (Publication Date) - Drawing with Christopher Hart (Publisher)
- Shinjuku Press (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 128 Pages - 05/02/2022 (Publication Date) - Independently published (Publisher)
- Yoai, Yoai (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 144 Pages - 08/24/2021 (Publication Date) - Rock Point (Publisher)
© Yoshiaki, Shogakukan
VIZ characterizes the main premise of Rai Rai Rai as:
Deep in debt, life can’t possibly deteriorate more for Sumire, until she discovers she has a monstrous new arm and a foul-mouthed voice in her head! It’s time to confront lethal alien dangers — all to cover her bills!
Source: VIZ Media Official Twitter