New Manga for Spring 2025 & August Revealed at San Diego Comic-Con
Kodansha Reveals New Manga Licenses for August 2024 & Spring 2025
Revealed today at Comic-Con International San Diego, Kodansha continued their rollout of exciting all-new series, new editions and box sets arriving in print Spring 2025.
Not only that but Kodansha also revealed a steamy androgynous romance, That Beauty Is a Tramp, set to debut this August.
Today’s print titles announced will be available starting Spring 2025 at physical and online book vendors like Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Amazon, and more, while August 2024 digital debuts will be available upon release across all our participating vendors, including Bookwalker, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, Nook, Kobo, MyAnimeList, Mangamo and more! Fans can also purchase and read all Kodansha digital manga directly on kodansha.us.
See below for details on the full slate of debuts coming soon in print and digital from Kodansha.
SPRING 2025 NEW PRINT LICENSES:
GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis
By KENT
Debut Date: Spring 2025
A gigantic monster devastates a small, seaside town. Ten years later, the resilient community has emerged as a tourist destination, when the monster, known as GAEA-TIMA, returns. Miyako, a local hero and survivor of the first attack, pushes to find a scientific solution to the problem of the giant creatures known as “gigantis.” But is humanity capable of responding to violence with anything except more violence?
This captivating new sci-fi manga from the creator of the hit series Colorless is a poignant adventure that puts a modern twist on the kaiju genre’s environmental and anti-war roots. Fans of Godzilla Minus One and Kaiju No. 8 shouldn’t miss GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis!
Rated: 13+
Tune in to Midnight Heart
By Masakuni Igarashi
Debut Date: Spring 2025
At the end of a difficult day, the haughty but purehearted rich kid Arisu found his only solace in the voice of another girl his age, who hosted a livestream under the pseudonym “Apollo.” Then, one day, the broadcasts stopped. Arisu has dedicated the years since then to finding Apollo’s true identity, and he’s narrowed it down to one particular high school. He transfers in as a student and figures it’ll be a cinch—but then discovers it could be any of the girls in the broadcasting club! And the real Apollo isn’t talking for reasons of her own! These four girls have no use for Arisu’s personality, but they each harbor dreams of using their voices to build a career, and they sure could use his money… Can the blunt and blustering Arisu buy his way into the club’s good graces, and find the real girl attached to his dream voice?
Rated: 16+
Shout Loud, My Heart
By Rayri Youga
Debut Date: Spring 2025
College student Gen, a guitarist for the rock band Eve, meets a man named Mike while playing at one of his gigs. Mike’s the kind of person who has no trouble saying what’s on his mind, and Gen soon finds himself captivated by the smooth talker’s voice. The next day, the two meet again when they realize they go to the same college. Be it on stage or just during casual conversation, Gen finds himself more and more captivated by Mike’s voice, and the more time the two spend together, the more Gen realizes it’s more than just Mike’s voice he’s attracted to…
A sexy, new BL one-shot manga that will seduce you with its sultry tones!
Rated: 18+
Roar: A Star in the Abyss
By Ai Okaue
Debut Date: Spring 2025
“Who is the villain of your story…?”
Misato had a perfect childhood, with parents who loved her and a home on an idyllic island in Japan’s inland sea. But then a TV show starts shooting in town. Misato’s cast as an extra, and in an instant, her life is turned on its head. A woman appears claiming to be her real mother, and before she knows it Misato is living in a lavish mansion surrounded by greedy schemers of all stripes. The curtain rises on the story of a rising star who plunges into an abyss—where the only sustenance is vengeance!
The new revenge thriller manga from the creator of the hit manga and TV drama Guilty!
Rated: 16+
Issak
Story by Shinji Makari, Art by DOUBLE-S
Debut Date: Spring 2025
The digital hit—fresh off its American Manga Awards nomination—comes to print in 2-in-1 omnibuses!
The year is A.D. 1620. Europe is riven with the conflagrations that will grow into the Thirty Years War. Catholic and Protestant forces clash across battlefields ruled by sword and gunpowder alike, and mercenaries of every stripe ply their trade. Among them is Issak, a lone Japanese warrior wielding a matchlock gun of strange design, on a sworn mission to find and kill the man who murdered his master and fled Japan for the other side of the world.
Meticulously researched and gorgeously illustrated, Issak is the next historical action epic manga that fans of Vinland Saga, Shogun, and Blade of the Immortal have been waiting for!
Rated: 16+
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT HOLIDAY 2024:
Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection Manga Box Set 1
By Naoko Takeuchi
Debut Date: Holiday 2024
The Sailor Guardians awaken in this box set edition of the everlasting masterpiece!
Includes:
- Volumes 1–6 of the Naoko Takeuchi Collection edition of the Sailor Moon manga
- An exclusive set of 16 art cards
- A beautiful holographic box featuring a premium magnetic enclosure
Rated: 13+
AUGUST 2024 NEW DIGITAL LICENSE:
That Beauty Is a Tramp
By Hal Osaka
Debut Date: August 13, 2024
Cool and tomboyish Nagi wants a boyfriend, but has one big problem—ever since an incident in college, her body reflexively rejects the touch of any man. That is, until she encounters the beautiful male model Aran, who uses his androgynous look to effortlessly model both masculine and feminine styles. She’s shocked to discover that she can touch him without having a reaction, and when he asks her to join him in an upcoming photo shoot with a famous photographer, she agrees, on one condition—be her practice boyfriend for one month, and help her conquer her aversion once and for all. By the author of Such a Treacherous Piano Sonata!
Rated: 16+
Read the FREE Chapter 1 of That Beauty Is a Tramp!
EVEN MORE PRINT MANGA LICENSES DEBUTING SPRING 2025
Snegurochka of the Spring Breeze
By Hiroaki Samura
Debut Date: Spring 2025
Winner of the Excellence Award in Manga at the 2014 Japan Media Arts Festival, this deeply researched political drama from the creator of Blade of the Immortal transports us to the frigid fringes of the nascent Soviet Union of the 1930s. Rich with the nuanced story and art for which Samura is famous, Snegurochka of the Spring Breeze's subtle adult drama and Russian setting are a breath of fresh air in the sometimes cookie-cutter manga world.
Bielka ("Squirrel"), a beautiful young woman in a wheelchair, and her taciturn companion Shchenok ("Puppy") must keep their true identities secret as they navigate the fraught political climate and harsh landscape of the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Intrigue abounds in this richly historical and erotic political drama that weaves historical figures including the Romanovs and Rasputin into Hiroaki Samura's brilliant fiction.
Rated: 18+
The POOL
By Gamon Sakurai
Debut Date: Spring 2025
Gamon Sakurai, author of the hugely popular sci-fi manga Ajin: Demi-Human, hits us with an all-new sci-fi thriller! Dropped thirty miles from home base on an alien planet, Chief Yugi Oishi must lead her men and the exploratory excavation crew they find stranded in an abandoned mine to safety as alien monsters close in on them from both sides. But not all is what it seems, and there may be more than one danger lurking in the dark.
Twenty years ago, a wormhole suddenly appeared above Earth's orbit and opened a passageway to an alien planet full of untapped resources and mysterious life forms. Two decades later, Team Sierra, a small military squad of security specialists working for the Tiberius Coke Corporation, are thirty miles away from home base on that planet when their leader, Chief Yugi Oishi, spots an SOS flare coming from a theoretically abandoned mine. Despite the danger, she leads her four-man team to the facility to see who'd called for help, only for it to be attacked by a horde of powerful creatures almost as soon as the doors close behind them. Now, she and the stranded exploratory excavation crew Team Sierra finds inside must traverse the treacherous mine to reach the only vehicle that could get them to safety—without waking the terrifying monster that's been picking off the researchers one by one.
Rated: 16+
Twilight Out of Focus Box Set
By Jyanome
Debut Date: Spring 2025
This collector's box set contains volumes 1-4 of the Twilight Out of Focus series and includes a special booklet with U.S.-edition-exclusive art, a never-before translated short story, and all-new full-color illustrations!
Second-years Mao Tsuchiya and Hisashi Otomo make three promises: 1) That Mao will never tell anyone that Hisashi is gay and has a boyfriend, 2) That Hisashi will never think of Mao “in that way,” and 3) That they’ll always knock before entering, in case someone is having some “private time.” The two’s ground rules should ensure a peaceful life together in their dorm, but life is never as simple as it should be, and some things are not so easily promised…
Rated: 18+
Musashi (New Edition)
By Eiji Yoshikawa, Translated by Charles Terry
Debut Date: Spring 2025
Eiji Yoshikawa’s classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. New Edition features a new cover design by a renowned creator!
Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai--without really knowing what it meant--he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive and brings life in his own village to a standstill—until he is captured by a weaponless Zen monk.
Rated: 16+