Yen Press has scheduled Dark Souls: Redemption Vol. 3 for release on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, the publisher confirmed, extending the officially licensed Dark Souls manga into a third volume.
The ongoing manga, authored by Julien Blondel with art by the artist known as Shonen, began with Dark Souls: Redemption Vol. 1 – Humanity Lost in 2024 and continued with Vol. 2 – Bonfire, which arrived in July last year. Yen Press is the publisher behind the series and will handle distribution of the new volume on the September date.
What readers will find inside the new book beyond the release date remains undisclosed: Yen Press has not yet revealed the volume’s title or the cover image for Vol. 3. Those omissions leave the most immediate questions about the new release unanswered even as the calendar date is now set.
Context: the Dark Souls trilogy of games is widely regarded as a complete story, and the studio’s lead, Hidetaka Miyazaki, has said that "the studio is more or less finished with Dark Souls as an ongoing series." FromSoftware has shifted creative focus to other projects, including Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Elden Ring and an upcoming PvPvE-focused project called The Duskbloods for Switch 2.
The continuing manga occupies a different lane from the games: Dark Souls: Redemption is an original adventure set in the Dark Souls universe rather than a direct game tie-in, and its release schedule now delivers a fresh franchise installment on paper rather than in software. That distinction matters to fans who have treated the games as a closed narrative; the manga allows storytellers to return to the world without restarting the mainline series.
There is an apparent disconnect between Miyazaki’s statement and the manga’s trajectory. While the studio frames Dark Souls as largely concluded, Yen Press and the creators behind Redemption are still expanding the brand in print. That means readers who thought the property was finished because FromSoftware moved on will get a new Dark Souls entry in 2026—just not from the original game studio.
What happens next is straightforward and specific: Yen Press will publish Vol. 3 on September 22, 2026, but the publisher has not provided the book’s title or unveiled the cover art. Those details are the single tangible gap left on the schedule; once Yen Press posts the title and cover, retailers and readers will have the complete ordering information for the next installment.
For now, the confirmed date gives fans and retailers a firm target. The release cements the manga as the active line of new Dark Souls material, and until Yen Press releases the remaining packaging details, the look and exact branding of Vol. 3 remain the unanswered element readers are most likely watching for.
