Manga Academy in Session!

It’s that time again where pencils are sharpened, backpacks are packed, and the bell rings signaling the return to school! This semester how about you enroll in Kodansha’s Manga Academy digital sale!

Right now save up to 50% off tons of school life manga to get you in the mood to benkyou your heart out! Just like the featured spicy rom-com satire, Ao-chan Can’t Study!. For classic, comedic & anime-inspiring series look no further than School Rumble, Genshiken, and Your Lie in April. And if you’re looking for something new, and chart-topping be sure to check out the beautiful art-life series Blue Period. Try all these series and more for a price that will leave you with plenty of lunch money!

But much like love, this sale is fleeting, so be sure to visit one of our participating digital vendors to save – including BookwalkercomiXologyKindleGoogle PlayNook and izneo!

Curious about this sale but want to see more? Check out below to read the FREE 1st chapter of our featured series, Ao-Chan Can’t Study. Or click on any of the titles featured below to read their free 1st chapter preview.

FAIRY TAIL 99¢ Vol. 1! & More

Own a modern shonen classic at price that’s no fantasy!

This Wayback Wednesday we’re spotlighting the action / fantasy shonen classic, FAIRY TAIL, by Hiro Mashima. The bingeable, anime-inspiring manga series spans 63 action-packed volumes, and for a limited time, is 99¢ for volume 1 and up to 50% off for every volume after that! FAIRY TAIL is a key piece of the Mishima extended universe that includes RAVE MASTER, EDENS ZERO, and a number of FAIRY TAIL spin-offs, like Happy’s Heroic Adventure, Blue Mistral, City Hero, not to mention massive cross over event Mashima HERO’S

In the world of FAIRY TAIL, cute girl wizard Lucy wants to join the Fairy Tail, a club for the most powerful wizards. But instead her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of unsavory pirates led by a devious magician. Her only hope is Natsu, a strange boy she happens to meet on her travels. Natsu’s not your typical hero—he gets motion sickness, eats like a pig, and his best friend is a talking cat. With friends like this, is Lucy better off with her enemies?

This deal will soon magically vanish, so try FAIRY TAIL volume 1 for only 99¢,  and save up to 50% off select volumes after that! Just visit our participating digital vendors to take advantage of this great discount: BookwalkercomiXologyKindleGoogle PlayApple BooksNookKobo and izneo!. Sale runs from August 25, until August 31!

Curious but want to see more? Check out the 1st chapter preview FREE below!

September 2021 Debuts

We’re back once again and ready to reveal the upcoming BL, romance, and action/adventure digital manga series debuting all throughout September 2021.

As a reminder, these new digital debuts as well as returning favorites will be available upon release across all our participating digital vendors including Bookwalker, comiXology, Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, Kindle, Nook, Koboizneo, and more!

To see what other new releases will be available in September 2021, and other months take a look at our Manga Release Calendar!

Sweet Sweet Revenge
By Shushushu Sakurai 

Release Date: September 7, 2021 

Hikari Minamoto is here for one reason: Revenge. She’s after five most popular guys in school…who have given her every reason to take them down. Never mind that they’re handsome and accomplished. Will she succeed, or will even the cool-hearted queen of revenge be compromised…?!

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We’re On Our Own From Here
Story by Yu Machio

Release Date: September 14, 2021

Shy Satsuki Shinohara’s plHaruki is a second year in high school, and is secretly in love with his best friend, Ryusuke. He swears he’s content with their relationship, but when a girl starts showing interest in Ryusuke, Haruki’s feelings spin out of control. He confesses, and to his surprise, Ryusuke responds…?

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Turns Out My Online Friend is My Real-Life Boss!
By Nmura

Release Date: September 14, 2021

Hashimoto is your average office worker—young, and prone to being pushed around by his demon boss, Shirase. His only escape is his favorite online game, and the friends he’s made within. But when he plans an offline meetup for his party, he gets the surprise of his life…!

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You’re My Cutie
By Nakaba Harufuji

Release Date: September 21, 2021

Madoka is obsessed with shoujo manga—specifically manga that features younger, innocent guys who fall for their Senpai. So she should be thrilled when a gorgeous kohai comes to work at her father’s restaurant…except he’s rude and standoffish, and wants nothing to do with her. But when she protects him from some extra-pushy fans, he finds that maybe he’s found someone letting his walls down for…!

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The Girl, the Shovel and the Evil Eye 
Story by Chouchouhassha, Art by Kayatamaru,
Character Design by Chibi

Release Date: September 28, 2021

Tsuguto Sumihara is way too nice…or rather, was too nice. He lost his life in a bus accident after being bullied into giving up his seat, and somehow was reincarnated into a mining camp! Not only that, the mine is at the base of an impossibly tall tower. It’s there he meets the ram–horned Rurié, his first friend in this bizarre land. But when she’s bullied, Tsuguto finds that maybe he wasn’t reincarnated without powers after all…and that, if he’s to have a future in this strange new land, Rurié’s just the partner he needs.

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Steamy & Dreamy Sale!

The summer is heating up in more ways than one as we’re spotlighting some of our spiciest romance manga during our Steamy & Dreamy Digital Manga Sale!

Take up to 50% off romance romps like the featured service fantasy saga, Maid in Honey. Looking for something with more of a power exchange dynamic, try the office drama, My Boss’ Kitten. If “hard to get” romances are the key to your heart, be sure to try, I’ll Win You Over, Sempai!. And you can even save on the very spicy anime-inspiring romance, Domestic Girlfriend! All these series and more will be sure to turn up the heat, and let you dream of romance without the nightmare of paying full price.

But much like love, this sale is fleeting, so be sure to visit one of our participating digital vendors to save – including BookwalkercomiXologyKindleGoogle PlayNook and izneo!

Curious about this sale but want to see more? Check out below to read the FREE 1st chapter of our featured series, Maid in Honey. Or click on any of the titles featured below to read their free 1st chapter preview.

Crime & Mystery Sale!

Do you have what it takes to collect the clues, chase the leads, and get to the bottom of all the mysterious crimes happening across some amazing Kodansha manga? Now’s your chance to test your mettle, during our Crime & Mystery Digital Manga Sale!

The game is afoot, dear reader! As you can now save up to 50% off such nefarious series as the supernatural undead detective story Undead Girl Murder Farce. If thought provoking mysteries are more your speed, check out A School Frozen in Time – with art by Your Lie in April mangaka, Naoshi Arakawa! If you’re looking for an all baddie thriller, check out the body horror suspense manga, Kasane. You can even try the anime-inspiring fan-favorite manga BAKEMONOGATARI! All this and more at a price that won’t make all your money mysteriously gone.

It’s no mystery that this sale won’t last for long, so visit one of our participating digital vendors to save – including BookwalkercomiXologyKindleGoogle PlayNook and izneo!

Curious about this sale but want to see more? Check out below to read the FREE 1st chapter of our featured series, Undead Girl Murder Farce. Or click on any of the titles featured below to read their free 1st chapter preview.

Get the Isekai Humble Manga Bundle

Out of this world Humble Manga Bundle Worth Over $700 in isekai manga for only $25

Save on series like: 
The Hero Life of a (Self-Proclaimed) “Mediocre” Demon!, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Trinity in Tempest, Am I Actually the Strongest?,& more!

Kodansha and Humble Bundle have teamed up once again to bring fans a bundle that’s from another world! Starting today manga fans can get over $700 worth of exciting, hilarious, and heartfelt isekai manga during the Humble Manga Bundle: Isekai by Kodansha event, going on until August, 26, 2021.

The Humble Manga Bundle: Isekai by Kodansha offers 65 volumes totaling over $700 worth of series themed around one of the hottest genres in manga today, isekai! Series you can expect to be part of this bundle include recent fan-favorites, like The Hero Life of a (Self-Proclaimed) “Mediocre” Demon!, as well as spinoffs of classic isekai series like, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Trinity in Tempest, to rom-com isekai like, I Guess I Became the Mother of the Great Demon King’s 10 Children in Another World, as well as anime-inspiring isekai like, I’m Standing on a Million Lives.

Read ’em anywhere: All the manga featured as part of the Humble Manga Bundle: Isekai by Kodansha will be delivered digitally upon purchase 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!

Support charity: For this Humble Bundle, Kodansha will be leveraging the purchasing power of each bundle – whether it’s at the $1 tier or the $25 to donate a portion of the proceeds to a worthy cause! Choose where the money goes among Kodansha and our preselected charity, the BINC, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation – an organization helping bookstore owners, booksellers, and comic store employees and owners with unforeseen emergency financial needs. Or you can also choose a charity of your preference via the PayPal Giving Fund.

See below for the different tiers of the Humble Manga Bundle: Isekai by Kodansha and a sampling of what series fans can expect as part of this deal:

For the full list of titles included in this Humble Bundle visit the Humble Manga Bundle: Isekai by Kodansha homepage.

And for more information on other Kodansha USA Publishing titles please visit: kodansha.localhost/.

Go For Gold Sale!


Currently, athletes from around the world are locked in grueling battles across numerous sports all for the glory if winning gold on the world stage. To celebrate the efforts of these world class athletes we’re spotlighting some of our most exciting sports series, and discounting them up to 50% off, during the Go for Gold Digital Manga Sale!

Save on a number of digital manga series like the recent fan-favorite soccer saga, Blue Lock. For a poignant and thoughtful look at what it takes to be a world-class ice skater check out, Medalist. Is olympic level love on your mind, be sure to try Practice Makes Perfect. With this sale you can try all these series and more at a price that will have you tasting the thrill of victory, without making your wallet taste the agony of defeat!

But much like the Olympics this sale will end before you know it. So visit one of our participating digital vendors to save – including BookwalkercomiXologyKindleGoogle PlayNook and izneo!

Curious about this sale but want to see more? Check out below to read the FREE 1st chapter of our featured series, Blue Lock. Or click on any of the titles featured below to read their free 1st chapter preview.