Kentaro Yabuki is drawing commissioned cards for the One Piece Card Game and the hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME, and a Momo Belia Deviluke figure based on his To Love Ru 20th anniversary illustration is scheduled for December 2027. He also works through a personal X account, opened in May 2026, separate from his Shueisha-affiliated account.
Kentaro Yabuki's recent public output is mostly illustration work tied to other companies' card games and to his own back catalog. In August 2026, Shueisha's V Jump put a newly drawn Houshou Marine card by Yabuki in its October issue, alongside a conversation between Yabuki and Marine. That followed a Yukihana Lamy card by Yabuki for the hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME 2nd Anniversary Blooming Memories book, announced for September 18, 2026. The same Lamy card appears in the book's final listing. In October 2026, the One Piece Card Game announced a Nami illustration by Yabuki for the One Piece Heroines Edition vol.2 [EB-05] booster set, releasing October 31, in two variations.
To Love Ru merchandise continues on a long lead time. Design Coco opened preorders for a 1/7 scale Momo Belia Deviluke figure based on Yabuki's 20th anniversary illustration, scheduled for December 2027 at 21,800 yen. A Shinjuku Station poster promoted To Love-Ru Short Story Collection Parade from October 5 to October 11, 2026, using enlarged panels with no characters, only speech bubbles, sound effects, and steam; Yabuki said on X that the idea moved him.
Yabuki's own posting runs through a personal X account. He opened "Kentaro Yabuki side" on May 28, 2026, separate from his official account, and posted Lala Satalin Deviluke fan art; the post passed 50,000 likes by May 29, and his follower count reached 110,000 shortly after. A corrected handle error led to a Death Note L illustration. He also posted Dragon Quest V fan art in June 2026 and an Evangelion Unit-08 drawing for his son. Amazon ran a 50 percent points-back offer on all 12 Kindle volumes of his manga Black Cat in August 2026.
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The One Piece Card Game announced on Monday that To Love-Ru manga artist Kentaro Yabuki is providing an illustration of Nami for the One Piece Heroines Edition vol.2 [EB-05] booster set, releasing October 31. The card comes in two variations. The set is the game's second extra booster set. The English One Piece social accounts teased it with a short promotional video on Monday.
Design Coco is producing a 1/7 scale figure of Momo Belia Deviluke from To Love Ru, based on the 20th anniversary illustration drawn by Kentaro Yabuki. Scheduled for release in December 2027 through the COCO Store, the painted plastic figure stands about 249mm tall with a dedicated base and costs 21,800 yen including tax. Design Coco handled both sculpting and painting.
A giant poster inside Shinjuku Station promotes To Love-Ru Short Story Collection Parade with enlarged manga panels that contain no characters, only speech bubbles, sound effects, and steam. The ad runs from Monday, October 5, 2026, through Sunday, October 11, 2026, on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line. Kentaro Yabuki said on X that he was moved when he heard the idea.
Shueisha's V Jump will release "hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME 2nd Anniversary Blooming Memories" on September 18, 2026, priced at 1,980 yen with tax included. The book collects cards released over the card game's past year. It comes with a newly drawn Yukihana Lamy card by Kentaro Yabuki, the creator of "To Love Ru" and "Ayakashi Triangle."
Amazon is running a 50 percent points-back offer on all 12 Kindle volumes of Kentaro Yabuki's manga Black Cat. The bulk price is 7,764 yen, earning 3,888 points. The series ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2000 to 2004, and a 24-episode anime aired from 2005 to 2006.
The V Jump October Issue, out August 21, includes a newly drawn Hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME card of Houshou Marine by Kentaro Yabuki, creator of To LOVE-Ru and Ayakashi Triangle. The issue also features a conversation between Yabuki and Marine.
Shueisha's V Jump announced the hololive OFFICIAL CARD GAME 2nd Anniversary Blooming Memories collection book, releasing September 18. The cover and two bonus cards were revealed, including a Yukihana Lamy card drawn by Kentaro Yabuki, known for To LOVE-Ru and Ayakashi Triangle. The book covers all cards released in the past year.
Manga artist Kentaro Yabuki, known for To Love-Ru and Ayakashi Triangle, posted fan art of the protagonist's daughter from Dragon Quest V on June 18. The drawing shows her with a smug expression holding a tiny medal. Yabuki said the game got him into RPGs when he was in seventh grade.
Manga artist Kentaro Yabuki, known for To Love-Ru, drew an illustration of Evangelion Unit-08 for his preschool-age son. The boy requested the pink mecha after seeing it on Yabuki's collection shelf. Yabuki shared the anecdote and drawing on his sub-X account, where it drew comments about the father-son moment and the rare robot art.
Manga artist Kentaro Yabuki, known for "To LOVE-Ru" and "Ayakashi Triangle," opened a personal X account on May 28, 2026. The account, named "Kentaro Yabuki side," is intended for casual personal updates and hobby illustrations, separate from his official Shueisha-affiliated account "Kentaro Yabuki Info." In his first post, he shared an illustration of Lala Satalin Deviluke from "To LOVE-Ru." The post received over 50,000 likes as of May 29. A second illustration followed after Yabuki noticed a typo in his initial post: he had mistakenly written the official account's handle as "@yabukiLinfo" instead of "@yabuki_info." To acknowledge the error, he posted a fan art of L from "Death Note," the series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. His follower count reached 110,000 shortly after the account went live. Fans responded with enthusiasm, with comments praising the unexpected Death Note artwork and encouraging him to draw more characters from that series.