Year: 2015

Anime: Space Brothers #0 trailer

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The anime based on the Kodansha manga is screening at the Japan Film Festival of San Francisco!

Space Brothers #0
Sunday, August 9
noon
$13~
New People Cinema
1746 Post Street, San Francisco

Space Brothers #0 is a great introduction to the TV anime series Space Brothers (Sentai Filmworks) based on the popular manga by Chuya Koyama. The film looks back on the origin of the Namba brothers’ dream of traveling to outer space, which was inspired by the world-renowned astronaut brothers Brian & Eddie Jay, another duo of “Space Brothers” who dreamed of setting foot on the moon well before the Namba brothers, Mutta & Hibito.

2014 | 90 min | with English Subtitles | Directed by Ayumu Watanabe
Distributed by YOMIURI TV

Read all of the Kodansha Comics manga, now streaming on Crunchyroll:

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Kodansha Comics at J-Pop Summit: Schedule of Events

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Kodansha Comics is excited to bring the manga world to this year’s J-Pop Summit, San Francisco’s premier citywide Japanese pop-culture event. Here’s a list of our events:

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Kodansha Comics Manga Gallery

August 7 thru 9
10-6 daily
free and open to the public
DG717 Gallery
717 Market Street, San Francisco

Our pop-up manga gallery includes an interactive manga reader courtesy Digital Garage and 40+ pieces of manga artwork from Akira to Sailor Moon to Attack on Titan. Read more …

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#CaptureTheTitan

August 8 + 9 10:30-8:30
$25 for J-Pop Summit 1-day pass
Interactive Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco

Don’t miss your chance to see the Colossal Titan in person. Come capture Attack on Titan using RICOH’s groundbreaking spherical THETA camera.

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Manga x Virtual Reality

August 8 + 9 10:30-8:30
$25 for J-Pop Summit 1-day pass
Interactive Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco

Experience manga in a whole new way with the VR Comic Reader developed in collaboration with FOVE.

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Space Brothers anime screening

August 9 noon
$13~
New People Cinema
1746 Post Street, San Francisco

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Watch the anime based on the Kodansha Comics manga!

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Have fun at J-Pop Summit!

Media inquires contact Misaki Kido [email protected]

Kodansha Launches New Series From Creator of Oh My Goddess!

Posted on | New Release

New York, NY (July 14, 2015) – At their panel at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend, Kodansha Comics announced English editions of a new series from creator Kosuke Fujishima, Paradise Residence.

Paradise Residence is a new manga from the creator of Oh My Goddess! and You’re Under Arrest,  Kosuke Fujishima. It follows Hatsune Takanashi—a clumsy schoolgirl who attends the Kitsuka Boarding School—and her trials living in the all-girls dormitory. This new series will debut in March 2016, and will be published in an oversized format.

Coming early 2016: Magatsuki, Real Account, Princess Jellyfish

Posted on | Events | Licensing Announcements

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LOS ANGELES (July 5, 2015) – During their panel at Anime Expo, Kodansha Comics announced three new series launches: Magatsuki, Princess Jellyfish, and Real Account. The publisher also announced the acceleration of fan favorite Noragami to a monthly release schedule.

Beginning in February 2016, Kodansha will release the anticipated fan favorite Princess Jellyfish, from acclaimed creator Akiko Higashimura. Tsukimi, who has loved jellyfish from a young age, resides in Amamizukan, a fangirl-only dorm. One evening at the local pet store, Tsukimi sees a lovely jellyfish in danger, but a beautiful woman comes to the rescue. They go back to Amamizukan together, but this “woman”… is actually a man! This long-awaited release will be published in deluxe, large-format 2-in-1 editions. With over 400 pages in each volume, color pages, and bonus special features, this will be the edition to own for newcomers and collectors alike.

Kodansha’s second new license, Magatsuki, from creator Hoshino Taguchi, follows 15-year-old Yasuke Arahabaki, who accidentally breaks a sacred mirror in his house's shrine. This accident releases Seori, a goddess of misfortune, and triggers a curse that forces them to stay close together or die. To lift the curse, Yasuke must help Seori achieve happiness – despite the bad luck she carries with her. It all gets more complicated when Yasuke's childhood friend and mutual crush, Akari Inamori, suddenly becomes the new owner of Yasuke's lost soul. How will Yasuke navigate his new intimacy with Akari and still fulfill his promise to Seori? Find out when this series debuts in February 2016.

Lastly, Kodansha announced the launch of new series Real Account.  This tense thriller has a simple premise: “If you reach zero online followers, you die.” Ataru is one of millions of members on the social networking site Real Account. But one day, he and thousands of others wake up inside a virtual world. Here, if you lose the game, you die for real—taking all your followers with you. And if you run out of followers, it's also game over. This new series with story by Okushou and art by Shizumu Watanabe will debut in English in March 2016.

Beginning with the seventh volume in October 2015, Kodansha revealed, hit series Noragami: Stray God will switch from a bimonthly release schedule to a new volume every month. The move comes in response to readers’ energetic reaction to the series, just in time for the second season of the anime adaptation, which will also air this fall.

 

Get the Yamada-Kun App for Miki Yoshikawa’s Appearance at Anime Expo

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Hit Manga and Anime on Crunchyroll Gets iOS App with Manga, Messages & Animated Autograph from the Author

San Francisco, Calif. (July 2, 2015)—Kodansha Comics just released a special Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches iOS app, with graphic-novel volumes of the manga, special messages from author-artist Miki Yoshikawa, and her animated virtual autograph, to celebrate her rare Stateside appearance at Anime Expo on July 3 and 4.

The link to download the app is at kodanshacomics.com/yamada.

The app is produced by Kodansha Comics’s new San Francisco-based digital-content arm Kodansha Advanced Media, in partnership with innovative mobile-comics platform Madefire, using their newly debuted Motion Book Publisher service.

“The app provides a direct connection from the artist to her work and to her fans,” said Alvin Lu, Kodansha Advanced Media’s General Manager. “Updates will include continuing new graphic-novel releases, interviews with Miki Yoshikawa, con coverage, news, and special messages from the author to her English-language fans.”

An in-app manga purchase unlocks Yoshikawa’s animated Virtual Autograph, which was built with Madefire’s Motion Books technology. Those at Anime Expo who bring their Virtual Autograph to the Kodansha Comics booth (booth #324) will receive an AX 2015 Exclusive Shikishi (signing board), which they can then have Yoshikawa sign at one of her Anime Expo autograph sessions.

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Miki Yoshikawa will be attending Anime Expo as a Guest of Honor. Her visit is being sponsored by leading anime-streaming site Crunchyroll, with events scheduled for Friday July 3 and Saturday July 4.

MIKI YOSHIKAWA'S ANIME EXPO SCHEDULE:

Friday, July 3rd, 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.: Interview and Q&A on the Crunchyroll stage (booth #1001)

Friday, July 3rd, 3:30 p.m  to 4:30 p.m.: Live drawing on the Crunchyroll stage (booth #1001)

Saturday, July 4th, 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.: Miki Yoshikawa Panel in panel room LP5 (409AB)

Saturday, July 4th: 1:50 p.m. to 3:20 p.m, 3:50 to 5:20 p.m.: Autograph sessions in Kentia Hall

*INSTRUCTIONS ON GETTING YOUR TICKET TO THE MIKI YOSHIKAWA AUTOGRAPH SIGNING – You must have a ticket to attend!

Tickets can be picked up at the Concourse Foyer starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Early arrival is highly suggested. The start of the line will be outside of the building, and attendees will be led into the hall just before 8 a.m.

The latest anime episodes and manga chapters of Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches are streaming exclusively on Crunchyroll, where it is one of the site’s most popular titles in both formats. Graphic novels of Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches are published, in both print and ebook format, by Kodansha Comics.

 

Fairy Tail: Master’s Edition to Debut This October

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New York, New York (May 15, 2015) – Kodansha Comics is excited to announce the Fairy Tail: Master’s Edition! In the vein of the popular Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition, the Master’s Edition will collect the first five volumes of the hit manga in an enormous size on high-quality paper.

Fairy Tail is the critically acclaimed pop culture sensation that has spawned a TV series, movies, video games, spinoffs, and more. The series follows the charming, teenaged celestial wizard Lucy as she teams up with the crazy fire wizard Natsu while he searches for the dragon Igneel who raised him. Lucy, Natsu, and his best friend Happy—who also happens to be a talking cat—join together to take jobs across the kingdom and learn to become more powerful wizards. Along the way, they forge a bond more powerful than any magic which grows stronger with every mission.

Whether they’re picking up Fairy Tail for the first time or are already diehard fans, this is THE edition for readers to own.  This massive edition will look fantastic on anyone’s shelf, and Hiro Mashima’s art looks better than ever in this oversized 7×10.5-inch book. The first Master’s Edition is coming to stores this October and will retail for $39.99. It’s the perfect gift for the budding wizard, along with the new spinoff series Fairy Tail: Blue Mistral and Fairy Girls, also debuting this fall from Kodansha Comics!