Kodansha New Print & Digital Licenses Revealed at NYCC
Kodansha Unveils New Print & Digital Manga Licenses at New York Comic Con
Kodansha announced today at New York Comic Con an array of new manga licenses debuting as soon as November for new digital series and in print for spring and fall of 2024!
Coming to print in 2024: This spring sees the print debut of the hitman action/comedy The Fable – which will also be getting an anime next year. Additionally, Blue Lock fans can rejoice over the news that the different POV spinoff, BLUE LOCK -EPISODE NAGI-, makes its debut fall 2024. Also coming in fall is the comically violent wheelchair hero battle manga Tank Chair.
Debuting digitally in November: For fans craving new manga series immediately, next month brings two digital series debuts including the pregnancy thought experiment, He's Expecting, and the risqué fantasy love story, How to Treat a Lady Knight Right.
Print titles announced will be available spring fall 2024 at physical and online book vendors like Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Amazon, and more, while November's digital manga series debuts will be available upon release across all our participating digital vendors, including Bookwalker, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, Nook, Kobo, MyAnimeList, and more! Fans can also purchase and read all our digital manga on the new kodansha.us.
Take a look below at the full roster of debuts coming soon in print and digital from Kodansha.
SPRING 2024 NEW PRINT LICENSES:
The Fable
By Katsuhisa Minami
When you're the infamous "genius killer" hitman The Fable, many things come easy. Being a normal person, however, isn't one of them. In fact, being told that he can't kill anyone for a while may just be the hardest job he's ever taken...
Rated: Mature 18+
FALL 2024 NEW PRINT LICENSES:
BLUE LOCK -EPISODE NAGI-
Story by Muneyuki Kaneshiro
Manga by Kota Sannomiya
Character Design by Yusuke Nomura
Seishiro Nagi, a second-year high schooler, thought everything was a pain and lived his life in an apathetic fog. That is, until he met Reo Mikage and they entered the mysterious striker training center, Blue Lock... A new spin-off from Blue Lock's author, Muneyuki Kaneshiro, telling the story from Nagi's point of view!
Rated: Older Teen 16+
Tank Chair
By Manabu Yashiro
Shizuka takes on the most dangerous of assassin jobs, but she’s not the one doing the killing. Rather, it’s her brother, Nagi, a strong assassin who took a bullet to protect his sister, leaving him in a comatose state and having to use a wheelchair. However, Shizuka has figured out the key to waking her brother up: he must be faced with killing intent! Thus begins a violent journey of recovery, battling the most dangerous foes!
Rated: Older Teen 16+
NOVEMBER 2023 NEW DIGITAL LICENSES:
He's Expecting
By Eri Sakai
Release Date: November 7, 2023
When career-minded Kentaro Hiyama finds out that he’s pregnant, it will change the course of more than just his own life. In the Japan of Eri Sakai’s thought experiment, ten years have passed since the male sex has spontaneously gained the ability to get pregnant, and society has struggled to adjust. Kentaro isn’t sure at first who the mother might be, and quickly finds himself butting up against regressive attitudes and discriminatory policies—most of which long precede male pregnancy. In his previous life, he’d never given any of it a second thought—he may have even held the same views. But through his encounters with other pregnant people, and galvanized by his new perspective, Kentaro turns his skills in business and marketing to effecting social change.
Rated: 16+
How to Treat a Lady Knight Right
By Kengo Matsumoto
Release Date: November 21, 2023
Leo Cornelia has dedicated her entire life to the battlefield. There is no demon she can’t slay, no challenge she can’t handle—at least, not until that confounding halfwit mage Foolie Dent confesses his love to her. Nothing feels farther from her than long-discarded notions of femininity and romance, but this annoying but dependable new friend might just be the key to opening the heart she closed long ago.
Rated: 16+