Märchen Crown
Märchen Crown is a Japanese manga series written by Aka Akasaka and Aoi Kujira and illustrated by. It has been serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Young Jump since March 2025.
Plot
Rapunzel is a girl who lives in a tall tower towering over the deep forest. A young man called Mikel stumbles upon her, takes her out of the tower—which she has longed to escape—and guides her to his village. Rapunzel's fantasy of a "happily ever after", however, is quickly shattered when she sees the outside world, and finds that the beautiful world she longed for is instead plagued by monstrous beings called "Cursed People," who are parasitic creatures covered in thorns and plants. Mikel, her savior, is also partially cursed.The series then turns into a large-scale war story where these re-imagined "Princesses and Princes" fight for survival and to become the "King of the People."
Publication
Written by Aka Akasaka and Aoi Kujira and illustrated by, Märchen Crown started in Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Young Jump on March 19, 2025. Shueisha has collected its chapters into individual volumes, with the first one released on October 17, 2025. As of November 19, 2025, two volumes have been released.Shueisha is simultaneously publishing the manga in English on its Manga Plus digital platform.