Frau Faust

Frau Faust (Japanese: フラウ・ファウスト, Hepburn: Furau Fausuto) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kore Yamazaki. It was serialized in Kodansha's josei manga magazine Itan [ja] from October 2014 to December 2017.

Frau Faust
First volume cover
フラウ・ファウスト (Furau Fausuto)
Genre	Dark fantasy[1]
Manga
Written by	Kore Yamazaki
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA: Kodansha USA
Magazine	Itan [ja]
Demographic	Josei
Original run	October 7, 2014 – December 7, 2017
Volumes	5

Plot

Marion, a young boy, meets Johanna Faust, and asks her to be his teacher because his impoverished mother can no longer afford to send him to school. After their first meeting, he follows her in her quest to retrieve the parts of Mephistopheles, who had been cut in pieces by the Inquisition and sealed 100 years ago. Meanwhile, Lorenzo and his assistant Vico are hunting down Faust in order to prevent her to fulfill her quest.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Kore Yamazaki, Frau Faust was serialized in Kodansha's josei manga magazine Itan [ja] from October 7, 2014, to December 7, 2017.^[2][3] Kodansha collected its chapters in five tankōbon volumes, released from April 7, 2015, to March 7, 2018.^[4][5]

In North America, the manga was licensed for English release by Kodansha USA.^[6] The five volumes were released from September 26, 2017, to November 6, 2018.^[7][8]

Volumes

No.	Original release date	Original ISBN	English release date	English ISBN
1	April 7, 2015[4]	978-4-06-380755-4	September 26, 2017[7]	978-1-63236-480-7 (print) 978-1-68233-875-9 (digital)
2	November 6, 2015[9]	978-4-06-380814-8	November 14, 2017[10]	978-1-63236-481-4 (print) 978-1-68233-953-4 (digital)
3	July 7, 2016[11][12]	978-4-06-380863-6 978-4-06-364988-8 (LE)	January 23, 2018[13]	978-1-63236-549-1 (print) 978-1-64212-081-3 (digital)
4	June 7, 2017[14][15]	978-4-06-380927-5 978-4-06-362360-4 (LE)	March 6, 2018[16]	978-1-63236-550-7 (print) 978-1-64212-116-2 (digital)
5	March 7, 2018[5] May 3, 2016 (LE)[17]	978-4-06-511006-5 978-4-06-511005-8 (LE)	November 6, 2018[8]	978-1-63236-665-8 (print) 978-1-64212-525-2 (digital)

Reception

In 2020, Frau Faust was one of the manga titles that ranked on the "Top 10 Graphic Novels for Teens" by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) of the American Library Association.^[18]