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Shadows House

Japanese manga series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Shadows House is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the duo Somato. It has been serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump since September 2018, with its chapters collected in 22 tankōbon volumes as of July 2026.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Shadows House” as japanese manga series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Shadows, House and Japanese can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as japanese manga series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2026.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shadows House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.