The Lycoris Recoil franchise keeps expanding. Anime News Network reports that the anime short films, Lycoris Recoil: Friends are thieves of time., are being adapted into a new manga.

The project stays in the family: Yasunori Bizen, the artist behind the existing Lycoris Recoil manga adaptation, will draw the new series. That continuity should keep the look and tone consistent for readers who followed Bizen's take on Chisato and Takina's adventures at café LycoReco.

It's the latest sign of how much life remains in the original A-1 Pictures action series, which has steadily grown from a 2022 sleeper hit into a multi-format franchise spanning anime shorts, manga, and more. Adapting the short films into print gives fans a way to revisit those stories at their own pace — and gives the franchise another lane to run in while audiences await its next animated installment.