Month: October 2018

Announcing: November 2018 digital-first debuts!

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Autumn’s here, and we’re keepin’ ourselves warm working hard on releasing at least one new “digital-first” manga series every week. In the month of November, we are kicking off 4 new manga series, with childhood-crush romance, an RPG series with a twist, and a couple of unique manga for all ages! 
Kodansha Comics’s digital-first manga releases are part of an exciting new initiative begun last year to put a greater diversity of manga series into the market. This month’s series debuts will be available at all of Kodansha Comics’s partner digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, Kobo, MyAnimeList, and nook:

Debuts November 6! Can I Kiss You Every Day?, Hatsuharu’s shojo romance about a now grown-up girl who reunites with a childhood friend promises lots of sweet and passionate kisses—read Chapter 1 for free here (original Japanese title: Mainichi kiss shite ii desuka)

Debuts November 13! Alicia’s Diet Quest, Aoi Fujiwara’s wacky calorie-counting parody of videogame RPGs focuses on one high priestess fixated on losing some weight as prep for her showdown with the Demon King;
KC 4 ALL: Manga for all ages
And starting November 20, Kodansha Comics gets into the holiday spirit by debuting a new digital manga for all ages every week—in addition to Good Dog, Cerberus! and Blissful Land, look for more announcements to come for December!

Debuts November 20! Good Dog, Cerberus!, Moha Arimura’s full-color kids’ manga about the nicest 3-headed pet you’ll ever see  (original Japanese title: Meiken Keru-chan);

Debuts November 27! Blissful Land, Ichimon Izumi’s heartwarming and finely detailed saga about a family living in 18th-century Tibet. (original Japanese title: Tenju no kuni) .

Attack on Titan goes Hollywood! Live-action Movie gets IT Director Andy Muschietti

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Just announced—the feature film of Kodansha Comics’s mega-hit manga, Attack on Titan is underway from Warner Bros. The studio also announced they’ve brought on Andy Muschietti, the director of 2017 horror blockbuster IT, to direct the live-action adaptation of Attack on Titan, as well as mentioning some of the key production staff including David Heyman (Harry Potter), Maki Oka (Heroes), and Barbara Muschietti, who’s the director’s sister and also worked on IT. 

Attack on Titan volumes 1-25 are available in digital & print from Kodansha Comics!

Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama is the award-winning and New York Times-bestselling series that is the manga hit of the decade! Spawning the monster hit anime TV series of the same name, Attack on Titan has become a pop culture sensation.
A century ago, the grotesque giants known as Titans appeared and consumed all but a few thousand humans. The survivors took refuge behind giant walls. Today, the threat of the Titans is a distant memory, and a boy named Eren yearns to explore the world beyond Wall Maria. But what began as a childish dream will become an all-too-real nightmare when the Titans return and humanity is once again on the brink of extinction …Read the free Chapter 1 preview!

For more updates on the Attack on Titan live-action movie, stay tuned to KodanshaComics.com! 

 
 

Halloween Manga Sale: Princess Resurrection Nightmare digital debut + 25 series up to 50% off!

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With everyone dressed in costumes around town, we here at Kodansha Comics love Halloween! To celebrate this spectacular holiday, we are doing a HUGE Halloween Manga Sale this week, with 25 spooky, creepy, Halloween-y manga at a 50% off discount at all of our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, MyAnimeList, and nook. (Sale ends November 5.)  

Not only that, we are summoning the princess of monsters from the darkness … with the digital debut of  Princess Resurrection Nightmare–– a brand new sequel to Yasunori Mitsunaga’s masterpiece, Princess Resurrection! Volume 1 is now available on all digital platforms at 50% off! (Sale ends November 5.)  
Whether you’re a die-hard horror fan or just looking for a costume idea for Halloween, be sure to check out the FULL list of manga on sale!

~ Halloween Manga Sale  ~
October 30 ~ November 5
Click on the link to read Chapter 1 for FREE!

Ajin: Demi-Human
As the Gods Will: The Second Series
Can You Just Die, My Darling?
Devils’ Line
Dragon Head
Elegant Yokai Apartment Life
The Flowers of Evil
Flying Witch
Happiness
Hozuki’s Coolheadedness
Imperfect Girl
Interview with Monster Girls
Kigurumi Guardians
Kokkoku: Moment by Moment
Museum
Noragami: Stray God
Parasyte
Princess Resurrection
Princess Resurrection Nightmare
Sankarea
Starving Anonymous
Witchcraft Works
The Wizard and his Fairy
That Wolf-Boy is Mine!
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches
Yozakura Quartet

Kodansha Comics x Humble Bundle: Tales of Horror! (ends 10/31)

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With Halloween right around the corner, have we got a great deal on some spooky and creepy manga for you—with the Humble Book Bundle: Tales of Horror! Together with our friends at Humble Bundle and a bunch of other horror-ific publishers, we’ve put together $392 worth of terrifying (in a good way) digital books including Ajin: Demi-Human, Dragon Head, and Parasyte! 
Name your price. Together, the books in this bundle usually cost as much as $492. At Humble Bundle, though, you choose the price!
Read ’em anywhere. These comics are available in multiple formats including CBZ, PDF, and ePub, so they work on your computer, e-readers, iPads, cell phones, and a wide array of mobile devices! Instructions and a list of recommended reading programs can be found here. 
Support charity. Choose where the money goes—among Kodansha Comics and our preselected charity the Arthritis Foundation—or, if you like, a charity of your choice—via the PayPal Giving Fund. For details on how this works, click here. If you like this bundle or like what Humble Bundle does, you can leave a Humble Tip too.

PAY WHAT YOU WANT! Here’re the Kodansha Comics you’ll get with each tier:

Pay $1 or more
Ajin: Demi-Human, volumes 1-2


Pay $8 or more
Dragon Head, volumes 1-2
Starving Anonymous, volumes 1-2

Pay $15 or more
Until Your Bones Rot, volumes 1-2
Kasane, volumes 1-2

Pay $18 or more
Parasyte, volume 1-2

This special bundle ends WEDNESDAY October 31 (that’s Halloween), 10:59 A.M. PACIFIC TIME

Animal Land Final Volume Celebration! HUGE digital sale + special tribute comics by Hiro Mashima, Hajime Isayama, Yoshitoki Oima

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From the hilarious hijinks to the heart-wrenching battles, Raiku Makoto’s Animal Land has painted a wondrous and fearsome world of humans and animals … along with chimeras and clones! As this story draws to a close in its final Volume 14 on October 30, we’d like to share the special moment with you with the Animal Land Final Volume Celebration! 

The biggest Animal Land Digital Sale EVER!
Starting October 23, for the week leading up with the release of the final volume, we are offering the best deal ever yet on Animal Land volume 1 for ONLY 99¢ and the additional volumes for $4.99 on all of our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook. If you’ve been thinking about catching up to the series, now is your chance! (Sale ends October 29.) 

Special Tribute Comics featuring Hiro Mashima, Hajime Isayama, Yoshitoki Oima & MORE!
In Japan, Animal Land was first serialized in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine’s debut issue, alongside many other titles like Attack on Titan and The Flowers of Evil to name a few. The following special tribute comics are by fellow authors from the monthly manga magazine—maybe you’ll recognize a few names, and even see some familiar characters!

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To read more of these 4-panel comics, you can check out Animal Land volume 14, available October 30th, 2018. Or read from the beginning and follow Taroza and his animal allies throughout their perilous journey filled with heart and tears!

Fall 2018 Manga to Anime Sale! Slime & MORE digital manga up to 50% off!

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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Boarding School Juliet, and final season of Fairy Tail  … This fall, there are a bunch of new and exciting anime based on Kodansha Comics! You want to know what these stories are about? Or you just can’t wait to find out what happens next before the next episodes comes out? Then you know what to do—check out the manga! 
To showcase those series that’s currently (and recently) airing as anime, this week, we’re having Manga to Anime Sale all digital volumes of selected must-read manga-to-anime titles are up to 50% off at all of our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook. (Sale ends October 22.) 

~ Fall 2018 Manga to Anime Sale  ~
October 16~22
Click on the cover to read Chapter 1 for FREE!


 
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
By Fuse and Taiki Kawakami
Like isekai fantasy? Whether your answer is “yes” or “no,” you should STILL check out That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, because it’s a totally different kind of “otherworldly” fantasy series that you’ve ever seen before!
SYNOPSIS Mikami’s middle age hasn’t gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he’s disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he’s not a knight or a wizard but a blind slime demon. But there are chances for even a slime to become a hero …
MANGA volume 1-8 available from Kodansha Comics 
ANIME streaming on FunimationNOW and Crunchyroll 
 
 
 
 


Boarding School Juliet
By Yousuke Kaneda
OK, so you like Rom-Com, but kind of get frustrated by the fact all these characters don’t ever proceed in their love until the very end of the season? Well, Boarding School Juliet is kind of different.
SYNOPSIS At Dahlia Academy, a prestigious boarding school attended by students of two feuding countries—the eastern Nation of Touwa, and the Principality of West—Romio Inuzuka, leader of the dorms’ Touwa first-years, wishes for a romance that can never be. For his ladylove is none other than his arch-enemy, Juliet Persia, leader of the dorms’ West first-years! Is Inuzuka ready to risk it all to confess his feelings? And even if Persia somehow agrees to go out with them, how long can they keep a forbidden relationship under wraps?!
MANGA volume 1-5 available digitally from Kodansha Comics
ANIME streaming on Amazon Prime 
 
 
 
 

Fairy Tail 
By Hiro Mashima
This is the moment that we’ve all been waiting for.  The newest and final season of Fairy Tail started this fall. Although it gives us a bittersweet feeling knowing that it’s leading up to the grand finale, it’s a 100% guarantee that this is is going to be the most epic season of Fairy Tail EVER!
Could the Fairy Tail guild reunite after a year of being apart? What about the battle with Zeref the Black Wizard? Before it comes out on the anime, you must experience the master storytelling by Hiro Mashima by reading the manga (complete series is available now)! 
MANGA Volume 1-63 (complete series) available now from Kodansha Comics
ANIME streaming on FunimationNOW and Crunchyroll 
 
 
 


 
Attack on Titan
By Hajime Isayama
Attack on Titan anime Season 3 just reached its mid-season finale. But the mystery seems to deepen, and the battle is just getting heated! If you just can’t stand being on a cliff hanger, read manga and find out what happens next. 
MANGA volume 1-25 available from Kodansha Comics
SIMULPUB is also available on ComiXology and Crunchyroll
ANIME streaming on FunimationNOW and Crunchyroll 
 

Rin Mikimoto Creator Spotlight Sale! Kira-kun Today debut + 2 series up to 50% off

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You might recognize the name Rin Mikimoto from Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight andLoves’ Reach—she’s one of the hottest up-and-coming shojo manga artists from Kodansha Comics right now! With every manga she’s created, her charming characters come alive in gorgeous illustrations and quirky humor, and you just can’t stop rooting for them!
To celebrate the digital debut of her new work, Kira-Kun Today, this week we’re hostingthe  Rin Mikimoto Creator Spotlight Sale and putting all volumes of her works on 50% off discount at our digital retail partners: BookWalker, comiXology, Google Play, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, and nook. (Sale ends October 15.)  
 

~ Rin Mikimoto Creator Spotlight Sale  ~
October 9-15


Kira-Kun Today

The newest manga from Rin Mikimoto!
For one short year, haplessly awkward, cockatiel-toting Nino has to keep watch over class joker and nextdoor neighbor, Kira-kun. Can Kira-kun—who harbors a terrible secret—find it in himself to open up and learn something new from Nino, or will she be consumed by his world? Find out in this touching tale of two fates that intertwine to become the “closest love to Heaven.” …Read Preview 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight 

At school, Hinana is an honors student, respected by all her classmates. She’s totally above things as juvenile as crushes and dating. Secretly, though, she has but one wish: To have a fairy-tale romance. One day, a super-hot celebrity named Kaede shows up at Hinana’s high school to shoot a movie, and it becomes difficult to keep up her act. By pure chance—or y’know, fate!—Kaede reveals his own ridiculous personality to Hinana, and her ordinary life turns breathtakingly romantic! Or just really, really … weird?! …Read Preview 
 
 
 
 

Love’s Reach

Haruka Sakurai is the substitute English teacher who takes over after Yuni Kurugi’s homeroom teacher goes on maternity leave, and genius-girl Yuni loves the way he looks—but she hates his flashy attitude. Thanks to that, her English grades have plummeted (everything else she has a perfect score on)! Now she has to take extra lessons with him after school, where she discovers Sakurai’s gentler side … ?! …Read Preview 

 

Harold Sakuishi Creator Spotlight Sale! New volumes of BECK and Seven Shakespeares + up to 50% off! (ends 10/8)

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Harold Sakuishi, legendary manga creator of BECK and Seven Shakespeares is coming to New York Comic Con 2018 October 4-7, and also receiving the International Spotlight Award from the Harvey Awards this year! And to celebrate his rare Stateside appearance, this week we’re hosting the Harold Sakuishi Creator Spotlight Sale together with our buds at comiXology and Kindle!
If you’ve been meaning to read up on Sakuishi’s materpieces, now is the perfect chance! Because on October 2, brand-new, never-before-translated volumes of BECK (volumes 15-22) as well as Seven Shakespeares (volumes 5-6) are launching as a part of the ComiXology Originals lineup—available exclusively as digital editions on comiXology and Kindle. And ALL the volumes, including these new ones, are going to be up to 50% off! (Sale ends 10/8.) 

BECK, volumes 1-22 now available exclusively as ComiXology Originals!

Seven Shakespeares,  volumes 1-6  now available exclusively as ComiXology Originals!

 

“I’m really honored to be able to attend as special an event as New York Comic Con.
A lot of influences from America—music, movies, culture—went into BECK.
It’s been eleven years since I last visited New York. I’m really looking forward to seeing it again. Thank you!” — Harold Sakuishi 

About Harold Sakuishi
Born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, Harold Sakuishi has built one of the most storied careers in all of manga, starting in 1987, when his Souwaikan (That’s Not Going to Happen) won the Tetsuya Chiba Excellent Newcomers Award. Subsequent works include Gorillaman (winner of the Kodansha Manga Award in 1990), Bakaichi, Stopper Busujima, and RiN, but probably Sakuishi’s name will forever be entwined with his groundbreaking marriage of manga and indie rock—BECK, which  later became a global sensation as a hit anime series. His current ongoing serial, Seven Shakespeares, which speculates on the true identity of the Bard of Elizabethan England, is now being published in English, along with BECK, as part of the comiXology Originals line.
 

 See Harold Sakuishi at NYCC 2018!

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