Wings is a monthly manga magazine in Japan that has featured Demon Flowers, Baku, The Demon Ororon, and Empire of Midnight by Hakase Mizuki. Many other titles have run in Wings as well. The Demon Ororon premiered in Wings in 1998 and ran until January 2001 (19 installments). Starting in April of 2001, Empire of Midnight began its run. You can visit the Wings website.

Using the kana text can help when searching for anything related to Empire of Midnight.
悪魔のオロロン - Akuma no Ororon (The Demon Ororon)
真夜中の帝国 - Mayonaka of Teikoku (Empire of Midnight)
水月博士 - Mizuki Hakase

Empire of Midnight - Serialization in Wings

Here are direct links to the back issues that contain Mayonaka no Teikoku on the Shinshokan website. They are out of print, and I would imagine, 25 years later, pretty hard to come by.

Feb. 2001: Wings issue 4 (out of print)
Jul. 2001: Wings issue 9 (out of print)
Aug. 2001: Wings issue 10 (out of print)
Oct. 2001: Wings issue 12 (out of print)
Jan. 2002: Wings issue 3 (out of print)

The following Website lists the page numbers that Empire of Midnight appear in in the back issues of Wings:
Contents Project (Japanese website)

- Issue 4, 2001: Feb. 2001 - on p. 79 for 39 pages
- Issue 9, 2001: Jul. 2001 - on p. 209 for 30 pages
- Issue 10, 2001: Aug. 2001 - on p. 127 for 12 pages
- Issue 12, 2001: Oct. 2001 - on p. 11 for 34 pages
- Issue 1, 2002: Nov. 2001 - on p. 205 for 40 pages
- Issue 3, 2002: Jan. 2002 - on p. 435 for 21 pages

(Note: the Shinshokan website does not list Empire of Midnight as appearing in issue 1 of 2002, so I don't know if issue 1 of 2002 actually has an installment or not.)

It looks like Empire of Midnight only ran for five or six installments. It's an incomplete story in itself though.

Here are some fansites:
LiveJournal - Mizuki Hakase

This website had a small amount of scans from Empire of Midnight and other Hakase Mizuki stories. I was only able to find Empire of Midnight chapter 1 here, and it seems these days it's a broken link.
Bloody Black

Chapter 1 is translated into English, read it here:
Batoto: Empire of Midnight

And if you want to read a brief fan summary of Empire of Midnight, visit this page here:
Spoiler Summary

I've tried scouring ebay, Yahoo Auctions JP, Mercari, for back issues of Wings. The problem is I don't have the raw scans. And even if I did, the story is incomplete anyways; what a bummer! But when I read The Demon Ororon 25 years ago when I was in high school, it really moved me, and I found myself wanting to torture myself with reading the incomplete Empire of Midnight.

If anyone has raw scans of this story, I'd love to hear from you. I would give it a go translating them for sure. You can reach me here. It would be greatly appreciated!

page last updated: 11/05/2025