Season’s Givings Gives Fans 6 Free Volume 1s

Kodansha gives free digital volume 1s & savings on fan-favorites like A Sign of Affection, The Great Cleric, Witch Hat Atelier, Wandance & more!

We made it! We’ve reached the end of the year and to celebrate why not make sure that your holiday time is also one filled with new free digital manga to read and enjoy with our Seasons’s Giving digital sale. Going on now until the beginning of 2024, fans can get six free digital volume 1s on some of Kodasha’s most anime-inpiring, fan-favorite, and perennial favorites. Loved the free volume 1s and want to read more? Take up to 50% off additional digital volumes of each featured series and catch up.

Now’s the best time to start the endearing and stylish romance manga, A Sign of Affection (anime coming January 2024); the gritty sentai hero action saga, Go! Go! Loser Ranger!; the artistically stunning and award-winning magical fantasy, Witch Hat Atelier; and more.

Sale Ends Monday, January 5th, 2024! 

Take advantage of these holiday discounts either by purchasing on kodansha.localhost/ or by visiting any of our participating digital manga vendors:


Don’t forget! You can get even more free digital volume 1s all December long with the Kodansha Countdown Giveaway! Kodansha Readers can take advantage of this daily-updated offer exclusively on kodansha.localhost/.



Curious to learn more about the Season’s Givings digital manga sale? Take a look below for info and free previews of the six series featured series with free digital volume 1s and up to 50% off additional volumes!


A Sign of Affection
By suu Morishita

Yuki, who’s always been deaf, is used to communicating with sign language and her phone. But she’s not used to English, so when a tourist from overseas asks for directions, she nearly panics…until a handsome stranger steps in to help. His name is Itsuomi, and it turns out he’s a friend of a friend. A charismatic globetrotter, Itsuomi speaks three languages, but he’s never had a deaf friend. The two feel drawn to each other and plan a date on a romantic winter’s night…but Yuki’s friend is afraid that she might be setting herself up to get hurt. Could this be something real? Or will these feelings melt away with the snow?

Rated: 16+

Read a FREE preview of A Sign of Affection

 


Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
By Negi Haruba

When the Monster Army invaded Earth thirteen years ago, the Divine Dragon Rangers rose up to stop them! With the war raging on, these great heroes are mankind’s last hope!

…or are they?

In truth, the invaders were subjugated within a year, forced to continue to crank out a monster a week for the Rangers to crush in front of their adoring fans! But one monster has had enough. Something has to change! He’ll rebel against the might of the Dragon Rangers and destroy them all…from the inside!

Rated: 13+

Read a FREE preview of Go! Go! Loser Ranger!

 


The Great Cleric
By Hiiro Akikaze, sime and Broccoli Lion

One man’s story of turning blood, sweat, and tears into a successful living—literally! After his untimely death as the hardest-working salary man in Japan, Luciel is reincarnated into the magical fantasy world Galdardia. Always the man with a plan, he recreates himself to be a healer, and sets about making his way in the world. But while Luciel knows a thing or two about making money, he knows absolutely nothing about Galdardia. Will his good heart and great work ethic be enough to make him…The Great Cleric?

Rated: 13+

Read a FREE preview of The Great Cleric

 


Sweat and Soap
By Kintetsu Yamada

Asako’s living her dream, working at the toiletry maker Liliadrop. Little do her coworkers know, the reason she loves the company so much is that she’s ashamed of her body odor, and their soap is the only thing that does the trick. So when the company’s lead product developer, a perfuming genius, approaches her in the lobby and wonders what “that smell” is, she’s terrified… but could it be… that he likes it? And, even more surprising to Asako… does she like him?

Rated: 16+

Read a FREE preview of Sweat and Soap

 


Wandance
By Coffee

Kaboku Kotani is starting high school, and he plans to do what he’s always done: go along with his friends, keep quiet, and not to draw too much attention to himself. After all, it’s hard enough to get by with a stutter like his—why make things worse by standing out from the crowd? But then he sees another first-year, Hikari Wanda, dancing like no one is watching—or like she doesn’t care who sees her. It makes Kaboku wonder: Could he reach that same freedom? To find his way to Wanda, he does something he never thought he could: He joins the dance club. After all, every routine begins with a single step, right?

Rated: 13+

Read a FREE preview of Wandance

 


Witch Hat Atelier
By Kamome Shirahama

In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch…until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem…

Rated: 10+

Read a FREE preview of Witch Hat Atelier

Season’s Savings Means Deep Discounts on Digital Manga

Get deep discounts on select series, with volume 1s for 99¢, volume 2s for $1.99, and additional volumes at up to 50% off

As we begin the holiday season, we want to make it as easy as possible to give the gift of manga to others (and also yourself) with our Season’s Savings digital manga sale! For a limited time you can get deep discounts on recent and classic fan-favorite series like then anime-inspiring Soulslike battle manga Shangri-La Frontier; the soccer-centric “game of death” series, Blue Lock; the pulse-pounding karuta showdown saga, Chihayafuru; and more! With select volume 1s at 99¢, volume 2s at $1.99 and additional volumes up to 50% off, fans can get 3 digital volumes deep into all our featured series for as little as $7!

Sale Ends Monday, December 18th, 2023! 

Take advantage of these holiday discounts either by purchasing on kodansha.localhost/ or by visiting any of our participating digital manga vendors:


 

 

And don’t forget! Kodansha Readers get access to read volumes 1-3 of Shangri-La Frontier AND Nina the Starry Bride FREE! No purchase necessary. Just log in to your free Kodansha Reader account and start reading! Want to read beyond these three free volumes? You can purchase additional volumes of each series on kodansha.localhost/ for up to 50% off while they are Limited Spotlight Series.


Curious to learn more about the series on sale during the Season’s Savings digital manga sale? Take a look below for details on five recommended series!


 

Nina the Starry Bride
By RIKACHI

Nina was plucked off the streets because she resembled a dead priestess—but is this a lucky break, or a new kind of curse? Winner of the Kodansha Manga Award, this fantasy shojo manga features intertwining constellations of palace intrigue and perilous romance, for fans of The Ancient Magus’ Bride, The Apothecary Diaries, and Snow White With the Red Hair.

Rated: 16+

Read volumes 1-3 of Nina the Starry Bride


 

My Unique Skill Makes Me OP even at Level 1
Art By Mawata; Original Story By Nazuna Miki; Character Designs By Subachi

Ryota Sato gets the surprise of his life when he’s suddenly transported into another world and nearly clobbered at the hands of the young, pretty adventurer Emily Brown. This new world revolves around defeating monsters and profiting on whatever they drop—food, money, items, etc. Unfortunately for Ryota, he has no skills to speak of…until he learns he has the ability to get rare drops! Suddenly his luck turns around…or does it?

Rated: 13+

Read a FREE preview of My Unique Skill Makes Me OP even at Level 1


 

Condition Called Love
By Megumi Morino

Hotaru is a 16-year-old high school first-year who has always been ambivalent about love, preferring instead to have a lively life with her family and friends. So when she sees her schoolmate, Hananoi-kun, sitting in the snow after a messy, public breakup, she thinks nothing of offering to share her umbrella. But when he asks her out in the middle of her classroom the next day, she can’t help but feel that her life is about to change in a big way…

Rated: 16+

Read a FREE preview of Condition Called Love


 

The Untouchable Midori-Kun
By Toyo Toyota

Talk about meet-cutes… Misaki doesn’t recognize her cute new neighbor when he comes to formally introduce herself…until he reminds her that they went to school together for years! But Midori Tachibana is no longer the awkward kid she remembers-he’s the leader of Japan’s hottest new idol group! But their fated meeting is cut short when he finds out she’s an adult film actress…and he can’t be seen with her if he’s to preserve his squeaky-clean idol image! But can the chemistry between them be so easily erased? A sex-positive, sweet idol rom-com for fans of Tokyo Tarareba Girls and Ex-Enthusiasts!

Rated: 16+

Read a FREE preview of The Untouchable Midori-Kun


 

Shangri-La Frontier
Story By Katarina; Art By Ryosuke Fuji and

Second-year high school student Rakuro Hizutome is interested in one thing only: finding trash games knows as “kusoge” and beating the crap out of them. His gaming skills are second to none, and no game is too bad for him to enjoy. So when he’s introduced to the new VR game Shangri-La Frontier, he does what he does best—min-maxes and skips the prologue to jump straight into the action. But can even an expert gamer like Rakuro discover all the secrets that Shangri-La Frontier hides…?

Rated: 16+

Read volumes 1-3 of Shangri-La Frontier


 

See below for the full list of Seasons’s Savings series on sale now until 12/18/23:

The Kodansha Countdown Giveaway gives fans free digital manga this December

Kodansha Readers can claim a new free digital volume 1 every day in December

2023 is almost at an end, so to celebrate, Kodansha is giving the gift of manga by offering one free digital volume one each day in December during the Kodansha Countdown Giveaway. This offer will only be available on kodansha.localhost/, exclusively for Kodansha Readers! That’s right! Thirty-one days in December means manga fans get 31 free volumes of some of our most exciting, romantic, terrifying, pulse-pounding, and awe-inspiring manga series.

Be sure to sign-up for a free Kodansha Reader account today to make sure you get access to each new free volume one revealed in December!

You can also check our social media accounts like X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and Instagram to see what the new free manga of the day is during the month-long Kodansha Countdown Giveaway!

See below for instructions on how to claim your free Kodansha Countdown Giveaway digital manga:


 

 

How to Claim Your Free Digital Volume 1s in December

  • Log into or sign up for a free Kodansha Reader account
  • Visit the series page for the day’s free volume 1
  • Hit the “Add to Library” button.
  • Congratulations you’ve claimed your Kodansha Countdown Giveaway manga! Go to the Library section from the top menu and access the volume from Your Bookshelf on kodansha.localhost/.
  • Enjoy your manga!

Restrictions
Each new free volume of manga will be available starting at 12 am ET / 9 pm PT exclusively on kodansha.localhost/. The free volume of the day will not be available outside of the day it is offered, so be sure to log in and add the free manga to your Library that same day.

If you encounter any issues claiming your Kodansha Countdown Giveaway manga, reach out to [email protected].

 


 

Find out which new volume 1 is free today!