Series debuts 9/27: Welcome to the Ballroom, Happiness, The Prince in His Dark Days

It's a special new-release Tuesday, as we've got 3 new series that break the mold making their debuts today (September 27)!

Read the entire first chapter of these new series at the links.

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Welcome to the Ballroom by Tomo Takeuchi

Feckless high school student Tatara Fujita wants to be good at something—anything. Unfortunately, he’s about as average as a slouchy teen can be. The local bullies know this and make it a habit to hit him up for cash, but all that changes when the debonair Kaname Sengoku sends them packing. Sengoku’s not the neighborhood watch, though. He’s a professional ballroom dancer. And once Tatara Fujita gets pulled into the world of the ballroom, his life will never be the same

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Happiness by Shuzo Oshimi

Shuzo Oshimi's (The Flowers of Evil) latest descent into the darkest corridors of teenage dread—with vampires. Nothing interesting in happening in Makoto Ozaki’s first year of high school. HIs life is a series of quiet humiliations: low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust. But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. Daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful. And worse than anything is the terrible, consuming thirst. The tiny shames of his old life have been replaced by two towering horrors: the truth of what will slake his awful craving and high school itself.

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The Prince in His Dark Days by Hiko Yamanaka

A heartrending modern love story. A drunkard for a father, a household of poverty … For 17-year-old Atsuko, misfortune is all she knows and believes in. Until one day, a chance encounter with Itaru—the wealthy heir of a huge corporation—changes everything. The two look identical, uncannily so. When Itaru curiously goes missing, Atsuko is roped into being his stand-in. There, in his shoes, Atsuko must parade like a prince in a palace. She encounters many new experiences, but at what cost … ?

All digital-only volume 1s now 99 cents—ends September 20!

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Welcome back to School Rumblewe mean it! We're putting 17 digital volume 1s—not just School Rumble—on sale for 99 cents each! 

Get into any of our digital-only series, including the exciting “Kodansha Resurrection” titles we're bring back from out of print. Visit our digital retail partners—at comiXology, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook—through September 20 (11pm Eastern Time) to get started.

Here's the complete list of our digital-only Volume 1s, which are now on sale (full Chapter 1s at the links):

ALIVE
As the Gods Will: The Second Series
COPPELION
Fort of Apocalypse
Fuuka
Gakuen Prince
My Wife Is Wagatsuma-san
Nodame Cantabile
NOiSE
Princess Resurrection
Pumpkin Scissors
Sayonara, Football
School Rumble
Space Brothers
Unlimited Fafnir
Yagyu Ninja Scrolls
Yozakura Quartet

BLAME! by Tsutomu Nihei print & digital on sale now

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The manga science-fiction classic BLAME! by Tsutomu Nihei is back.

Originally published by Tokyopop, then long out of print, Tsutomu Nihei's (Knights of Sidonia) cyberpunk gamechanger BLAME! is now back in digital and in a luxurious new premium print edition courtesy of Vertical ComicsRead all of the scintillating Chapter 1 here.

Check out our other long-out-of-print “Resurrected” Kodansha re-releases—now on sale through September 20.

And if you missed the BLAME! anime trailer debut at this year's San Diego Comic Con—introduced by manga's preeminent science-fiction master himself—check it out here.