Material Puzzle

Plot

Set in a fictional world where magic is used, Mikaze is sent by the two elders of his village to ask the 3 great immortal magicians to help his village from being overtaken by a large fungi called the Yamakuidake (Mountain eating Mushroom). So he starts his quest and climbs up the mountain that the Three Magicians live on to ask, but upon meeting the 3 Magicians, he learns that the other two are gone and he is left with Aqua, a young girl who uses candy as a wand. Eventually, they agree: she will go and help his village as long as he brings her back safe and sound to the mountain afterwards. The only problem is that, as a sign of their agreement, he has to wear a mask until the agreement is fulfilled.

Publication

Written and illustrated by , Material Puzzle started in Square Enix's ja manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Gangan on January 12, 2002. The main series finished on June 12, 2007. A ja story started on August 11, 2007, and finished on March 12, 2008. A four-chapter story, titled Material Puzzle: Saikō Shōnen, was published in the same magazine from June 12 to September 12, 2008. Square Enix collected the Material Puzzle chapters in 20 ja volumes, released from June 22, 2002, to September 22, 2007, and the Material Puzzle: Saikō Shōnen chapters were collected in two ja volumes, released from September 22, 2008, to February 21, 2009. In 2018, Kodansha started re-releasing the manga volumes in a new edition as ebooks, which were numbered 1–22.

A prequel manga by , titled **, started in Monthly Shōnen Gangan on October 11, 2008. The series was later moved to Gangan Online in 2009 and finished on March 22, 2012. Square Enix collected its chapters in nine ja volumes, released from September 22, 2008, to May 22, 2012. In 2018, Kodansha republished the series in 10 ebooks.

Nine years after the original series finale, Totsuka published a ja chapter in Kodansha's ja manga magazine ** on January 22, 2018, and another series, titled Material Puzzle: Kaminaki Sekai no Mahoutsukai, started in the same magazine on May 22 of that same year. The magazine ceased print publication and move to a digital release starting on August 4, 2022. The series finished on December 22 of that same year. Kodansha collected its chapters in ten ja volumes, released from February 22, 2019, to February 21, 2023.

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