Save on sweet shojo series with select volume 1s at $0.99 during the Just Desserts digital sale!

For a limited time, save on sweet shojo manga volume 1s of series like A Sign of Affection, How I Met My Soulmate, Lovesick Ellie & more starting at $0.99 

Straight from the pages of Dessert Magazine! We are spotlighting lots of lovely, romantic, and sweet Kodansha shojo series at a deep discount sure to leave you swooning during the Just Desserts digital manga sale!

For a limited time, fans can start and catch up with tender, wholesome, and even heartbreaking manga with volumes 1s of select series now $0.99 and additional volumes up to 50% off. Including series like:

A Sign of Affection, a beautifully tender romance that explores love, communication, and connection in the most heartfelt ways that proves emotions can be felt even when unspoken.

In the Clear Moonlit Dusk, A story delicately explores themes of acceptance, vulnerability, and the complexities of relationships, all set against the backdrop of a tender, slow-burn romance.

My Boyfriend in Orange, a sweet, emotional story of first love and finding courage in the face of challenges with themes of love, dedication, and the strength of bonds formed through shared experiences

Our Precious Conversations, a touching story about finding comfort in someone who understands you, and the magic of simple, meaningful exchanges

Sale Ends Monday, April 21st, 2025! 

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

Amazon Kindle
BookWalker
Barnes and Noble Nook
Apple Books
Kobo
Google Play
MyAnimeList
Mangamo
and more! 

Want to learn more about the outstanding Dessert Magazine series featured in the Just Desserts digital manga sale? Take a look below for details on five recommended series!


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+

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Love, That’s an Understatement
By Fujimomo

Spare eraser? Check. Extra folding umbrella? Check. First aid kit? Check. Cool and collected high school student Risa Amakawa has something in her heavy bag for every situation, and the last thing she needs—or knows how to ask for—is anyone’s help. When she saves a beat-up delinquent in the park one rainy evening, she refuses any sort of repayment. But it turns out that saving the notorious Zen Ohira buys her the attention of some unsavory characters. As Zen keeps swooping in to help her out of one pickle after another, her feelings about relying on anyone but herself—and her feelings toward Zen—slowly begin to change… A new romcom from the author of Lovesick Ellie!

Rated: 13+

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How I Met My Soulmate
By Anashin

Yuuki is a 20-year-old college sophomore who has wished for one thing since moving to Tokyo: to find her soulmate. Growing a bit desperate after a long drought, she goes along with a friend to a club for the first time. Her friend thrives, but it’s chaotic and loud…just not Yuuki’s scene. Just when Yuuki begins to despair that she’ll ever find a real, adult relationship, she meets Iori, a man with bleached hair and a slightly scary demeanor…but first impressions don’t always tell the whole story. Could destiny still have more cards to play?

Rated: 16+ 

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A 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+

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House of the Sun
By Taamo

The moving account of a young woman who reconnects with a childhood friend as she puts together the pieces of her life following her parents’ broken marriage.

As a child, Mao spent all her time at Hiro’s house across the street. Going to his house always made her feel cheerful. A few years later, Mao’s father gets remarried and Mao finds herself with nowhere to call home. Hiro ends up letting her stay with him in the house he’s been occupying alone since the death of his parents. A love story unfolds, between two childhood friends of different ages.

Rated: 16+

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See below for the full list of Just Desserts series on sale now until 4/21/25:

Get every single volume of 3 hit series for $30 with the Spring Shonen Special Humble Bundle!

Kodansha & Humble Bundle’s Spring Shonen Special Bundle Offers ALL volumes of Fire Force, SHAMAN KING, and Noragami: Stray God for $30

Exciting, action-packed, and binge-worthy, are all ways to describe the nearly 100 volumes of digital manga you can get in the Spring Shonen Special Bundle for only $30!

Whether you’re excited to reach the end of Fire Force ahead of the final anime season or want to finally read the shonen classic SHAMAN KING, and then jump into the visually stunning supernatural epic of Noragami: Stray God; the Spring Shonen Special Bundle makes it possible to collect EVERY volume of these fan-favorite shonen sagas for one low price, but act fast because this bundle won’t last long!

Spring Shonen Special Bundle ends April 17th, 2025

Complete your digital collection of Fire Force, SHAMAN KING, and Noragami: Stray God by buying the all-in-one $30 bundle, or you can sample these series with fewer volumes at the $1,$10, and $20 tiers as well. Take a look below to see which digital volumes of Fire Force, SHAMAN KING, and Noragami: Stray God you can unlock at every tier of this amazing bundle:


 

Pay $1 or more to get: 
Fire Force, Volumes 1-2
Noragami: Stray God, Volumes 1-2
SHAMAN KING, Volumes 1-2

Pay $10 or more to get: 
Fire Force, Volumes 3-10
Noragami: Stray God, Volumes 3-9
SHAMAN KING, Volumes 3-10

Pay $20 or more to get: 
Fire Force, Volumes 11-21
Noragami: Stray God, Volumes 10-20
SHAMAN KING, Volumes 11-21

Pay $30 or more to get: 
Fire Force, Volumes 22-34
Noragami: Stray God, Volumes 21-27
SHAMAN KING, Volumes 22-35 


What charity does this Humble Bundle support?: Kodansha will be leveraging the purchasing power of each bundle sold—whether it’s at the $1 or the $30 tier—to donate a portion of the proceeds to a worthy cause! This 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.

How will you get your purchased digital volumes?: All the pulse-pounding Kodansha shonen manga featured as part of the Spring Shonen Special 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!


Curious about this Humble Bundle but aren’t sure if these series are right for you? Read FREE chapters of each featured series clicking on the links below:

 

Magnolia: FAIRY TAIL Complete Illustrations, Hiro Mashima’s First Ever English Language FAIRY TAIL Art Book Coming Soon to Print

Kodansha Announces Plans to Publish Magnolia: FAIRY TAIL Complete Illustrations Hardcover Art Book

First-ever FAIRY TAIL art book to get English release

Kodansha announced today plans to publish an English edition of Magnolia: FAIRY TAIL Complete Illustrations—a large-format, hardcover, FAIRY TAIL art book capturing series artwork from its entire run as well as new illustrations by the prolific mangaka, Hiro Mashima.
 
The ultimate, full-color art book for fans of the best-selling fantasy epic, Magnolia: FAIRY TAIL Complete Illustrations includes a whopping 470 illustrations from throughout FAIRY TAIL’s 11-year, 63-volume run. All your favorite characters are here: Lucy, Natsu, Gray, Wendy, Erza, Juvia, Happy, and dozens more! As the story continues in sequel series FAIRY TAIL: 100 Years Quest, with new anime and video games, the franchise has never been stronger, but, shockingly, this is the first FAIRY TAIL art book to get an English release. Get fired up and show your guild pride by adding Magnolia to your shelf—or pick up a copy for the Dragon Slayer in your life!

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?
 
Volumes of the original FAIRY TAIL manga—as well spinoff series like FAIRY TAIL: 100 Year’s Quest, FAIRY TAIL Zero, FAIRY TAIL: Blue Mistral, FAIRY TAIL: Ice Trail, FAIRY TAIL S, and more—are available to read in print and digital wherever manga is sold and on kodansha.localhost/. Additionally, fans of Hiro Mashima can also read his other series, Monster Soul, Rave Master, EDENS ZERO, and his most recent fantasy adventure, DEAD ROCK.

Parasyte Returns in Black & White Paperback Print Edition With New Translation for Fall 2025

Kodansha Announces Parasyte Returns in Black & White Paperback Print Edition With New Translation for Fall 2025

Kodansha announced today for Fall 2025, a new paperback print edition of Parasyte—the influential and fan-favorite body horror manga series by Hitoshi Iwaaki that also inspired an anime streaming on Crunchyroll and live-action series from Netflix. For the first time in over a decade, this new paperback edition will feature Iwaaki’s original black-and-white art restored, as well as an updated translation, updated interior design, and new cover designs that are sure to excite longtime fans and newcomers to the series.

Inspired by Kodansha’s best-selling full color edition, the new black-and-white editions of Parasyte will be completed in eight volumes and will include the updated translation, lettering, and size of the Parasyte Full Color Collection


In the world of Parasyte: Teenager Shinichi wakes up one night to discover a creature crawling under the skin of his right arm. This is a Parasite, a creature that takes control of a person’s body and turns it into a shapeshifting monstrosity hungry for human flesh.

Shinichi has managed to stop his parasite with a tourniquet, and as a result, it takes over only his arm, leaving two consciousnesses sharing one body and dependent on each other to survive. As parasites take control of more and more people, rumors spread of brutal murders committed by terrible abominations—heads splitting open to reveal mouths of sharp teeth, batlike wings erupting from backs, blades tearing through soft bellies. Only Shinichi knows for sure that these rumors are all true. But can he find a way to live without destroying everyone he cares about, much less save the rest of humanity?

This timeless manga inspired the global smash hit anime Parasyte -the maxim- (available to stream on Crunchyroll), and the live-action TV drama from the director of Train to Busan, Parasyte: The Grey (available to stream on Netflix).

Get anime-inspiring hits starting at $0.99 during the Manga to Anime: Rewind & Preview digital sale!

For a limited time, get volume 1s of anime-inspiring favorites from the current & upcoming anime season starting at $0.99 

Experience some of your favorite moments of the current anime season and get a look ahead at next season’s hits by reading the original manga at a huge discount during the Manga to Anime: Rewind & Preview digital sale!

For a limited time, fans can start and catch-up with action-packed, charming, and inspiring stories that have made the jump from the pages of manga to streaming with volumes 1s of select series now $0.99 and additional volumes up to 50% off. Including series like:

Fire Force, is a high-octane shonen series that combines explosive action, supernatural abilities, and a gripping mystery. Set in a world plagued by spontaneous human combustion.

Shangri-La Frontier, The thrilling VRMMO adventure manga, a gaming prodigy known for conquering the worst, bug-ridden games out there. When he finally turns his attention to a well-made, top-tier VR game.

Medalist, the critically acclaimed sports manga that follows the inspiring journey of Inori Yuitsuka, a determined young skater with untapped potential.

Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms, a rom-com between a stoic monk in training vs the cutest girl in high school!

Sale Ends Monday, April 7th, 2025! 

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

Amazon Kindle
Barnes and Noble Nook
Bookwalker
Apple Books
Kobo
Google Play
MyAnimeList
Mangamo
and more! 

Curious to learn more about what’s on sale during the Manga to Anime: Rewind & Preview digital manga sale? Take a look below for details on five recommended series!


WIND BREAKER
By Satoru Nii

Haruka Sakura wants nothing to do with weaklings—he’s only interested in the strongest of the strong. He’s just started at Furin High School, a school of degenerates known only for their brawling strength—strength they use to protect their town from anyone who wishes it ill. But Haruka’s not interested in being a hero or being part of any sort of team—he just wants to fight his way to the top!

Rated: 16+

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Fire Force
By Atsushi Ohkubo

A new action fantasy set in a steampunk Tokyo from the creator of the smash-hit Soul Eater!The city of Tokyo is plagued by a deadly phenomenon: spontaneous human combustion! Luckily, a special team is there to quench the inferno: The Fire Force! The fire soldiers at Special Fire Cathedral 8 are about to get a unique addition. Enter Shinra, a boy who possesses the power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous “devil’s footprints” (and destroying his shoes in the process). Can Shinra and his colleagues discover the source of this strange epidemic before the city burns to ashes?

Rated: 16+

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Medalist
By TSURUMAIKADA

Inori is a little girl who dreams of becoming a figure skater. Yet, the obstacles to this dream feel insurmountable: Inori’s already “too old” (she’s 11); she’s always had trouble at school; and, worst of all, her older sister’s skating dreams ended in failure, so her mother is dead set against putting her other daughter through a similar experience. Still, the rink is the only place Inori can be herself, and she’s out on the ice when a fateful meeting takes place. Tsukasa, a frustrated coach on the edge of giving up competitive skating himself, will join Inori to form an unstoppable duo powered by hard work, transcendent joy, and an unshakeable belief that they can prove everyone wrong.

Rated: 13+ 

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Shangri-La Frontier
By Ryosuke Fuji and Katarina

Second-year high school student Rakuro Hizutome loves nothing more than finding so-called “trash games” and beating the crap out of them. When he decides to change things up by playing a new,“god-tier” VR game known as Shangri-La Frontier (a.k.a. SLF), he does what he does best: min-maxes, skips the prologue, and jumps straight into action! Rakuro may be a seasoned gamer, but a meeting with an old rival will change the fate of every SLF player forever.

Clad in nothing but shorts and a bird mask, Rakuro (player name: Sunraku) launches into the world of SLF. Things are going well at first as he takes down a goblin, a bunny, and even a python. But then Sunraku comes up against a huge, hard-hitting wolf known as Lycagon the Nightslayer. Will Sunraku’s years of “trash game” experience be enough, or is he about to suffer a rude awakening just a few hours into his SLF adventure?

Rated: 16+

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Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
By Negi Haruba

WHO IS THE HERO… AND WHO IS THE VILLAIN?

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+

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See below for the full list of Manga to Anime: Rewind & Preview series on sale now until 4/7/25:

Official Witch Hat Atelier Art Book & Coloring Book Arriving Fall 2025

Kodansha Reveals New Print Manga Licenses for Fall 2025 in Multi-day Announcement

In anticipation of the upcoming and hotly anticipated anime, Kodansha announced today two new ways to dive deeper into Witch Hat Atelier—the Harvey & Eisner award–winning magical fantasy by Kamome Shirahama—with both The Art of Witch Hat Atelier and the Witch Hat Atelier Coloring Book arriving in English and in print in Fall 2025.

The stunning pieces compiled in The Art of Witch Hat Atelier, a 195×270 mm (7.7″x10.6″) hardcover, include cover illustrations without logos and text, character pieces from the series’ magazine run that were not included in the manga volumes, and previously-exclusive art drawn to commemorate publication milestones in the manga’s journey from its debut in 2016 through to becoming a multiple award–winning, 13-volume best-seller with millions of copies in print worldwide and a long-awaited anime adaptation.

For fans looking for a cozy way to interact with the magical art of Witch Hat Atelier comes the official Witch Hat Atelier Coloring Book. First published in Japan at the end of 2024, this large-format 9.7” x 9.7” collection of ready-to-color Kamome Shirahama illustrations gives fans the opportunity to immerse themselves in this fantastical world. Color in your favorite characters, creatures, and places and even design your own “witch hat” in your own colors. A wonderful gift for fans of any age!

About Kamome Shirahama:
One of the most versatile and inspiring artists working in comics anywhere in the world, Kamome Shirahama has drawn comics covers for Marvel and DC and designs for animation as part of the Star Wars: Visions project. The pieces showcased in The Art of Witch Hat Atelier exhibit Shirahama’s broad range of styles, from Belgian comics and art nouveau to Studio Ghibli and classic and modern manga. A perfect gift for anime and manga fans young and old, The Art of Witch Hat Atelier was originally published in French to celebrate Shirahama’s appearance as a guest of honor at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in January 2025.

About Witch Hat Atelier
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…

Get 50% off of high stakes competitive stories during the Let the Games Begin Digital Sale!

For a limited time, score 50% off thrilling manga packed with high-stakes games with stories like Chihayafuru, Teppu, Blade Girl,  I Fell in Love After School & more!

Whether it’s sports, survival, or mind games, these stories will keep you on the edge of your seat! Now’s your chance to dive into intense rivalries and game-changing moments with the Let the Games Begin Digital Sale! 

For a limited time, fans can start electrifying manga where competition is everything, with all selected volumes now up to 50% off. Discover new stories with fierce competition like:

Teppu, a gripping martial arts manga with realistic fight choreography, sharp character writing, and a fresh take on female-led sports manga

Shojo Fight, an exhilarating sports manga high-stakes volleyball action with deep character drama with dynamic artwork, realistic sports strategy, and strong, complex female characters

Again!!, a thrilling time-travel and coming-of-age that blends humor, drama, and a unique spin on school spirit

Getting Closer to You, a charming and heartfelt shoujo romance manga with adorable artwork and a relatable, slow-burn relationship, perfect for fans of wholesome, feel-good love stories.

Waiting for Spring, a sweet and uplifting shoujo romance manga that navigates first love, friendship, and self-confidence while dealing with jealousy and competition. 

Sale Ends Monday, March 24th, 2025! 

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

Amazon Kindle
Barnes and Noble Nook
Bookwalker
Google Play
MyAnimeList
Mangamo
and more! 

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


Chihayafuru
By Yuki Suetsugu

Chihaya is a girl in the sixth grade, still not old enough to even know the meaning of the word zeal. But one day, she meets Arata, a transfer student from rural Fukui prefecture. Though docile and quiet, he has an unexpected skill: his ability to play competitive karuta, a traditional Japanese card game.

Chihaya is struck by his obsession with the game, along with his ability to pick out the right card and swipe it away before any of his opponents. However, Arata is transfixed by her as well, all because of her unbelievable natural talent for the game. Don’t miss this story of adolescent lives and emotions playing out in the most dramatic of ways!

Rated: 13+

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Teppu
By Moare Ohta

It’s not easy being good at everything. First-year high school student Natsuo Ishido has always been a gifted athlete, and her ability to easily master every sport has not only bought her a life of boredom, but the resentment of everyone else who has had to work hard for their achievements. Not that Natsuo cares what anyone else thinks. All she longs for is a break from the monotony…for a real challenge worthy of pouring all her efforts into. A rival—an equal—worth beating down, crushing, and demoralizing… That all seems like a pipe dream until a pair of annoyingly peppy transfer students arrive from Brazil and start up a brand-new club that teases the challenge she craves—Mixed Martial Arts.

Rated: 13+

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Blade Girl
By Narumi Shigematsu

One year after losing her leg, 16-year-old Rin is tired—tired of the painful physical therapy, tired of being treated differently, and tired of her stupid, heavy, awkward prosthetic leg. All that changes when she encounters the Blade Runners, a group of one-legged athletes who run with “blades”—carbon fiber prosthetics specialized for competitive running-made by their gifted prosthetist, Kazami. The blades are light, flexible, and formidably difficult to control—Rin can barely walk with one, much less sprint. But as she tumbles to the ground again and again, she rediscovers many of the things that she’d forgotten, and finds a new goal: to compete in the Paralympics.

Rated: 13+ 

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All-Rounder Meguru
By Hiroki Endo

A smashing MMA manga from the critically acclaimed creator of Eden: It’s a Endless World!

High schooler and budding Shooto mixed martial arts fighter, Meguru Takayanagi, reunites with his old friend from grade school, Takashi Segawa, in the ring for the first time in seven years. However, while the two used to be good friends, due to the difference in their upbringings, Takashi now sees Meguru as an enemy. Without a moment of joy to commemorate their reunion, the old friends’ match begins…
Eden: It’s an Endless World!’s Hiroki Endo brings you a new tale of Shooto, MMA, and youth!

Rated: 13+

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Farewell, My Dear Cramer
By Naoshi Arakawa

With no soccer accomplishments to speak of during the entirety of Sumire Suo’s junior high school years, the young wing gets an odd offer. Suo’s main rival, Midori Soshizaki, invites her to join up on the same team in high school, with a promise that she’ll never let Suo “play alone.” It’s an earnest offer, but the question is whether Suo will take her up on it. Thus the curtain opens on a story that collects an enormous cast of individual soccer-playing personalities!

Rated: 13+

Read a FREE preview of Farewell, My Dear Cramer


See below for the full list of Let the Games Begin series on sale now until 03/24/25: