Month: December 2022

Get More FREE Manga with Kodansha’s Ongoing Season’s Savings Sale

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Kodansha Offers Even More Seasons’s Savings with FREE Vol. 1s & 99¢ Vol. 2s For Select Series

We’re continuing the giving spirit by offering manga fans new & old even MORE free digital manga & deep discounts with Kodansha’s Season’s Savings digital sale! For a limited time you can now get FREE vol. 1s and 99¢ vol. 2s of the supernatural battle manga, Shaman King, and spinoff series, Shaman King: Flowers, Shaman King: The Super Star, and Shaman King: Red Crimson!

Not only that but we’re also discounting fan-favorites from every genre like the dark sci-fi drama, Knights of Sidonia; the hilarious spiritual slice-of-life, Saint Young Men; the intrigue-filled, rags-to-riches fantasy, Nina and the Starry Bride, the multi-love rom-com, Girlfriend, Girlfriend, and more!

Stock up on digital savings with Free Vol. 1s, 99¢ vol. 2s & up to 50% off some of our best manga during the Kodansha Season’s Savings digital sale! To see all the discounted series being offered right now, visit one of our participating digital vendors: Bookwalker, Amazon Kindle, Google Play, Kobo, Nook, izneo, MyAnimeList and more! 

Sale Ends Monday, January 2nd! 

Curious about this sale but don’t know where to start? Read the FREE 1st chapter of the action-packed shonen classic, Shaman King!

Still looking to browse more manga at a discount? See below for the full list of Discounted series on sale during the Season’s Savings digital sale!

Get FREE Manga with Kodansha’s Season’s Savings Sale

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Kodansha Offers Seasons’s Savings with FREE Vol. 1s & 99¢ Vol. 2s For Select Series

It’s the season of giving and to manga fans everywhere we’re stuffing those digital stockings with FREE manga & deep discounts! That’s right for a limited time get FREE vol. 1s and 99¢ vol. 2s of fan favorite rom-com series, Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, The Quintessential Quintuplets, and Boarding School Juliet!

Not only that but you can also take up to 50% off some of Kodansha’s most exciting, awe-inspiring, poignant & hilarious series like the body horror battle manga, Ajin: Demi-Human; the visually stunning art school saga, Blue Period; the trans coming-of-age drama, Boys Run the Riot; the awkward-yet-spicy office romance, Sweat & Soap and many more!

Stock up on digital savings with Free Vol. 1s, 99¢ vol. 2s & up to 50% off some of our best manga during the Kodansha Season’s Savings digital sale! To see all the discounted series being offered right now, visit one of our participating digital vendors: Bookwalker, Amazon Kindle, Google Play, Kobo, Nook, izneo, MyAnimeList and more! 

Sale Ends Monday, December 19th! 

Curious about this sale but don’t know where to start? Read the FREE 1st chapter of the teasing school-days romance, Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro!

Still looking to browse more manga at a discount? See below for the full list of Discounted series on sale during the Season’s Savings digital sale!

New 2022 Anime-Inspiring Manga Humble Bundle Available Now!

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Kodansha 2022 Anime Recap Humble Bundle Launches Today

Get over $440 worth of anime-inspiring manga series like Blue Lock, Ya Boy Kongming!, Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie & more for only $18

A portion of the proceeds for this Humble Bundle to go towards supporting BINC, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation

Kodansha USA & Humble Bundle have teamed up again to spotlight fan-favorite manga series that made the leap into anime this year with the Kodansha 2022 Anime Recap Humble Bundle. Featuring such anime-inspiring series as Blue Lock, Ya Boy Kongming!, Tokyo Mew Mew, A Couple of Cuckoos & more, this latest Humble Bundle lets fans who have enjoyed the anime to read beyond those series with over $440 worth of digital manga for only $18. Ready to purchase now from the Humble Bundle website, this deal will only be available until January 1, 2023.

Read ’em anywhere: All the exciting, hilarious, and heartfelt manga featured as part of the Kodansha 2022 Anime Recap Humble Bundle will be delivered digitally upon purchase in multiple formats including CBZ, PDF, ePub, and FLAC so fans can read these titles across their computer, e-readers, tablets, cell phones, and a wide array of mobile devices!

Support Charity: Kodansha will be leveraging the purchasing power of each bundle sold – whether it’s at the $1 or the $18 tier – to donate a portion of the proceeds to a worthy cause! This Humble Bundle supports BINC, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation – an organization helping bookstore owners, booksellers, and comic store employees and owners with unforeseen emergency financial needs. Pay what you want and choose how much of your purchase supports BINC or you can also choose a charity of your preference via the PayPal Giving Fund.

See below for details on all the the amazing titles fans can expect to get at each tier of the Kodansha 2022 Anime Recap Humble Bundle:

Pay $1 or more to get:
A Couple of Cuckoos, Vol. 1
Police in a Pod, Vol. 1
Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie, Vol. 1
Ya Boy Kongming!, Vol. 1
When Will Ayumu Make His Move?, Vol. 1

Pay $10 or more to get:
Blue Lock, Vols. 6-10
A Couple of Cuckoos, Vols. 2-3
Police in a Pod, Vols. 2-4
Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie, Vols. 2-3
Ya Boy Kongming!, Vols. 2-3
When Will Ayumu Make His Move?, Vol. 2
Dawn of the Witch, Vol. 1

Pay $20 or more to get:
Blue Lock, Vols. 1-5
A Couple of Cuckoos, Vols. 4-5
Police in a Pod, Vols. 5-7
Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie, Vols. 4-5
Tokyo Mew Mew Omnibus, Vol. 1
Ya Boy Kongming!, Vols. 4-6
When Will Ayumu Make His Move?, Vol. 3
Dawn of the Witch, Vols. 2-3

To browse the different tiers and get your hands on this amazing manga visit the Kodansha 2022 Anime Recap Humble Bundle homepage.

Limited Edition Sailor Moon & Q Posket Figure Bundle Announced

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EXCLUSIVE LIMITED QUANTITY SAILOR MOON NAOKO TAKEUCHI COLLECTION BUNDLE WITH Q POSKET FIGURE ARRIVES JANUARY 2023

Special Q Posket Sailor Moon Figure Only Available in This Exclusive Bundle

Kodansha USA Publishing announced today that an exclusive, limited quantity, bundle pairing the Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection volume 1 with a stunning Q Posket Sailor Moon figure arrives this January 2023! A perfect gift for any manga fan or collector – this exclusive bundle will be available in limited quantities until sold out.

Product Details Below:

Sailor Moon 1 + Exclusive Q Posket Figure (Naoko Takeuchi Collection)
Author: Naoko Takeuchi
ISBN: 9781646517541
Price: $39.99

About the Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection: A new edition of the Sailor Moon manga, for a new generation of fans! Featuring the updated translation and high page count of the Sailor Moon Eternal Edition in a more affordable, portable edition, perfect to go wherever you or the magical guardian in your life want to take it.

Teenager Usagi is not the best athlete, she’s never gotten good grades, and, well, she’s a bit of a crybaby. But when she meets a talking cat, she begins a journey that will teach her she has a well of great strength just beneath the surface and the heart to inspire and stand up for her friends as Sailor Moon! The original Sailor Moon in a new, affordable edition.

December 2022 New Digital Licensing Announcement

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Kodansha USA Publishing announced today their latest all-new digital manga licenses debuting in December 2022.

This December, Kodansha unveils two supernatural adventures as part of this month’s digital manga debuts, including the witchy rom-com, The Shape-Shifting Witch’s Kiss; and the supernatural battle manga, Beast #6.

All of December’s debuting digital manga series will be available upon release across all our participating digital vendors, including Bookwalker, Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, Nook, Kobo, MyAnimeList and more!

DECEMBER 2022 DIGITAL DEBUTS:

The Shape-Shifting Witch’s Kiss
By Maho Funeno

Release Date: December 6, 2022

Tohru has a superpower – he manages to be invisible without any magic at all! In fact, the only one who truly sees him is his childhood friend, Tsumugi, leading Tohru to have the crush to end all crushes on her. But when Tohru’s “ability” leads him to accidentally discover a witch and strip her of her powers, he thinks he’s screwed…until she offers to help him hook up with Tsumugi. But this witch’s powers are revived only with a kiss? One thing’s for sure—Tohru won’t be invisible for long!

Rated: 16+

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Beast #6
By Kohei Nagashii

Release Date: December 26, 2022

Fifteen years ago, indiscriminate supernatural attacks rocked Japan-prompting the government to create the Tactical Raveling Unit in the First Counter-Psychotrauma Division of the Special Measures Agency…or TR1M, for short. Their purpose? To deal with the monstrous manifestations called the Unraveled. And they’re good, too… so when TR1M agent, Raveler Second Class Nika Ago, is shipped to a far-off backwater, she knows her poor performance is to blame…but what she doesn’t expect is to find a hotbed of Unraveled activity, and a boy with a secret who just might be her way back into TR1M’s good graces!

Rated: 13+

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