In May 2007, Bride of Deimos resumed serialization in Monthly Bonita magazine, with the subtitle "The Final Chapter" (最終章, Sai Shūshō).
[9][10][11] Almost 20 years after its last chapter, Bride of Deimos resumed serialization in the June 2007 issue of Akita Shoten's monthly shōjo manga magazine Mystery Bonita on May 7, 2007.
[15] A 30-minute original video animation (OVA) titled Deimosu no Hanayome: Ran no Kumikyoku (悪魔の花嫁~蘭の組曲, "Bride of Deimos: The Orchid Suite") was released in Japan on August 31, 1988.
It was produced by Madhouse and directed by Rintaro, with the script written by series author Etsuko Ikeda and the music composed by Yasuo Fukazawa.
[2] Jason Thompson of Anime News Network described Bride of Deimos as a "funky mixture of gory horror and mythology, of Buddhism, Christianity, and Greek myth", with "enjoyable old-school shojo manga artwork".
[18] In a review of the first volume, Publishers Weekly agreed that the decades-old manga "retains all its power to chill", crediting Ashibe's "use all manner of odd angles and perspective" in her artwork "to convey Minako's off-kilter world ... that veers between ordinary and mystical.