The Ancient Magus’ Bride Reading Order: All Volumes & Arcs (2025)

The Ancient Magus’ Bride is a fantasy shōnen manga by Kore Yamazaki. Wit Studio produced an OVA trilogy titled The Ancient Magus Bride: Those Awaiting a Star as a prequel to the series; the animation studio also made an animated television series that first aired between October 8, 2017, and March 25, 2018. Another three-part OVA series, The Ancient Magus’ Bride: The Boy From the West and the Knight of the Mountain Haze, aired from September 10, 2021, to September 10, 2022. On September 10, 2022, a second season was announced, which premiered on April 6, 2023. This article will be your ultimate guide to the narrative units of The Ancient Magus’ Bride manga, as we will tell you everything you need to know about them.

How many The Ancient Magus’ Bride arcs are there?

Although it is a manga series, The Ancient Magus’ Bride does not seem to be divided into narrative arcs, as manga series generally are. Building on that, we have to confirm that The Ancient Magus’ Bride currently consists of 19 collected volumes, with more than 95 chapters as of the time of writing. This is why we will talk about the volumes of The Ancient Magus’ Bride series in this article rather than narrative arcs, as we usually do.

The Ancient Magus’ Bride manga volumes in order (at a glance)

In this section, we are going to bring you an overview of The Ancient Magus’ Bride manga volumes at a glance:

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	April 10, 2014	978-4-8000-0284-6	May 12, 2015	978-1-626921-87-0
2	September 10, 2014	978-4-8000-0361-4	September 1, 2015	978-1-626921-92-4
3	March 10, 2015	978-4-8000-0422-2 ISBN978-4-8000-0420-8(LE)	December 1, 2015	978-1-626922-24-2
4	September 10, 2015	978-4-8000-0498-7 ISBN978-4-8000-0484-0(LE)	April 12, 2016	978-1-626922-55-6
5	March 10, 2016	978-4-8000-0547-2 ISBN978-4-8000-0510-6(LE)	July 5, 2016	978-1-626922-84-6
6	September 10, 2016	978-4-8000-0611-0	January 3, 2017	978-1-626923-50-8
7	March 10, 2017	978-4-8000-0658-5	July 4, 2017	978-1-626924-99-4
8	September 9, 2017	978-4-8000-0567-0	February 27, 2018	978-1-626925-97-7
9	March 24, 2018	978-4-8000-0747-6 ISBN978-4-8000-0727-8(LE)	September 11, 2018	978-1-626928-01-5
10	September 10, 2018	978-4-8000-0794-0 ISBN978-4-8000-0785-8(LE)	February 26, 2019	978-1-626929-90-6
11	March 9, 2019	978-4-8000-0837-4	September 24, 2019	978-1-642751-01-7
12	September 10, 2019	978-4-8000-0890-9	February 25, 2020	978-1-64505-201-2
13	March 10, 2020	978-4-8000-0945-6	October 13, 2020	978-1-64505-470-2
14	September 10, 2020	978-4-8000-0967-8	April 27, 2021	978-1-64505-805-2
15	March 10, 2021	978-4-8000-1055-1	October 5, 2021	978-1-64827-272-1
16	September 10, 2021	978-4-8000-1128-2	October 25, 2022	978-1-63858-294-6
17	March 10, 2022	978-4-8000-1183-1	March 7, 2023	978-1-63858-841-2
18	September 9, 2022	978-4-8000-1240-1	July 4, 2023	978-1-68579-577-1
19	March 10, 2023	978-4-8000-1302-6	—	—

In the next part of this article, we will tell you how you should watch the series chronologically.

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In what order should you read The Ancient Magus’ Bride?

Fans of The Ancient Magus’ Bride will need to start with the first volume of the manga series, but they will then have to follow the release order of all the chapters and volumes to normally follow the evolution of the plot. It’s a lot of material, but the best way to approach it is to simply follow the release order, as it coincides with the evolution of the plot, which is not yet finished, which means that there is a lot more to come.