Assassin’s Creed Shadows Prequel Is Available Now

The first volume of Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Tales of Iga is now available in English. The prequel manga offers a closer look at the world of Assassin’s Creed Shadows through the perspective of the titular shinobi village at the heart of the game’s story.

The official manga was originally announced in February 2025, a month ahead of Assassin’s Creed Shadows‘ critically acclaimed release. At the time, Ubisoft had only confirmed a release date for Japan, where the series debuted on March 20, 2025, the same day as the AAA game it is based on. Created by Japanese manga artist Regujie, Tales of Iga has since been serialized on Weekly Young Magazine’s Yanmaga website ever since.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Tales of Iga Vol. 1 Launches at $14.99

With a 27% Launch Discount on the Digital Edition

VIZ Media officially released the English-language version of Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Tales of Iga Vol. 1 on June 16. The manga is priced at $14.99 in both paperback and digital formats. Amazon is currently offering a launch promotion that lowers the Kindle edition to $10.99, a 27% discount. The deal does not appear to have a listed end date, but its framing as a launch discount suggests it will not be available for long.

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The first volume of Tales of Iga runs 192 pages. The series is set to conclude with Volume 2, which is currently scheduled for an English-language release on November 17, 2026. The Japanese collected volume and its French translation were already released in March and June 2026, respectively.

A Brief History of Assassin’s Creed Manga Releases

The manga history of Assassin’s Creed has developed less as a unified publishing line than as a series of targeted regional experiments built around Ubisoft’s most marketable historical settings. The franchise’s English-language manga push began in 2017 with Assassin’s Creed: Awakening, Titan Manga’s two-volume adaptation of Black Flag. That made Edward Kenway the series’ first major English-language manga protagonist, years before Ubisoft returned to the character through Forgotten Temple. The final volume of Forgotten Temple is scheduled to receive its English-language release on August 18, 2026, a little over a month after Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced launches on July 9.

Given Ubisoft’s track record, it is plausible that the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Codename Hexe will also receive a tie-in manga. The next mainline entry in the open-world franchise is estimated to have entered pre-production in 2022, though it is still lacking an official release window four years later. However, recent reports point to the project internally targeting a June 2027 launch.

Released

March 20, 2025

ESRB

Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language